Just back from a trip home to Ireland and am pooped. Got up at 6am (1am EST) and drove up to Dublin Airport from Donegal Town via Omagh. Got there about 10.30am, would have been earlier but the car was running on fumes and I had to stop for petrol. As I was whizzing down [...]

On Ubuntu it used to be that ctrl-alt-backspace would kill X (the backend of the various graphical user interfaces on Linux). In an aim to be user friendly this is now disabled by default. This can be a real pain if X locks up, you can’t kill it nor change to a console.
On Debian and [...]

Went for a walk along the Charles yesterday, what a great day, and it’s was nice and quite down there and a great to relax, chill and get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. And the MIT’er were out sailing too and it almost looks they were sailing on the ice.

And those [...]

Support Boston’s Pine Street Inn this year and buy holidays cards based on a photograph I took:
http://www.pinestreetinn.org/store/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=61
The photograph also came 24th in the Boston Globe’s 2008 Winter Wonderland contest:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/02/22/winter-wonderland-24/

Penny over at BostonZest did a write up on this and asked me to comment on the picture:
http://www.bostonzest.com/2008/10/holiday-cards-to-support-pine-street-inn.html

1. Fred and his cap!, 2. Sunrise @ the lake, 3. Boston Twilight, 4. Donegal Town: The Diamond 1973, 5. Celtic Sprially Wrought-iron, 6. Frozen Bog Puddle, 7. Boston Sunset, 8. Maghery,
9. Under Lough Eske Bridge, 10. Celitc Spirally Wrought Iron, 11. Big Waves, 12. The Atlantic near Dungloe, Donegal Ireland, 13. Donegal Bay, 14. [...]

Trying to replace the header image in the theme I’m currently using. The image is the word unsleepable in the screenshot below:

The theme is called Unsleepable and is by Ben Gray, which is a modified version of the K2 theme by Michael Heilemann.
The instructions at http://openswitch.org/2006/04/16/title-graphic-how-to/ say what file needs to be replaced, and the [...]

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Another amazing sunset up at the lake this weekend. I took this one tonight:

And this two nights ago:

A few more here:
http://flickr.com/photos/timony/tags/20070906/

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