Another Opinion Among Many

If a picture is worth 1000 words, then here are 2000.  Finally, it looks like the Canada that the rest of the world sees us as:

This was yesterday.

That’s out my window this morning.  We got another 10cm or so.

More, but not worthy of another post:

This would be what Macbros had referred to on his site.

Behind our Building

Another of the Trees

So, a few weeks ago, Ubuntu “upgraded” Firefox 2.0.0.12 (which is a decent release) to Firefox 3 Beta and I couldn’t view any java applets any more.  The reason is because some of the file paths are changing and the plugins need to be linked to a different spot.  I had to try Opera but it crashed.  That left me with Konqueror, which is not native to Gnome, for the time being.

That has just changed.  I just found Bug #173966 and there was a hack proposed that helped me to get back on track.  The solution, for now:

cd  /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/

ln -s /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so .   <–note the “dot”

Your plugin path might be different, but that’s where one place mine can be found (actually, its a symbolic link to the plugin, which is in  /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so)

Wow.  Somehow, over the weekend, the visitor count just topped 50,000 unique IPs, which means at least 50,000 different IP addresses visited my site since I set up the counter, sometime in 2006.  So, that means my little ole site could have been visited by at least 50,000 people.  Thanks for coming to my spot, everyone!  BTW, the counter says 51,051 at the moment.

Awesome! I just got my e-flyer from Dell today and I saw a new offering on the ad.  They’re now bringing the Ubuntu operating system to Canada on some of their models! This is great news, as I have been contemplating a laptop purchase and it was going to have Linux on it.  Now, since I like Ubuntu anyways, I won’t have to install it myself.  And all of the machine’s capabilities will be used under Linux, supported by Dell.  Woo hoo!

Check it out:  HERE

Its been reported here and here as well.

This is so good!

…is cool.  Devin’s mom mentioned the lunar eclipse, so we both went outside to see it.  I tried to capture it on camera, but my digital is limited in its capabilities.  I didn’t get a good picture.  We’ll see if the film camera did the job when I develop the film.

My Internet Security Suite.

Check out this one, called “If I were  gay, Asian kitten”, an Barenaked Ladies parody, and a good one, at that.

If you can’t see the movie, the link to the page is HERE

And, here’s another excellent parody of JT’s “Sexy Back”

The URL is HERE