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Michiganders
I ran into a pair of Michiganders this morning in the hotel breakfast. Got spotted because I’m wearing a Western sweatshirt. They’re out here on vacation meeting her brother who’s also an expat here. Small world! First day here completely … Continue reading
A City of Lights
The Shanghaiese love their bright lights. This place never sleeps. Which is a good thing, because if they tried to close their eyes it’d still be too bright to sleep! It’s so ridiculous that it’s fun. Thursday was St. Patrick’s … Continue reading
Foreigners
It’s Thursday afternoon in sunny Shanghai, and I’ve brought the good weather with me. It’s 13 C / 55 F and quite nice out today. It also helps to finally feel human again after the wicked night at the bar … Continue reading
Beware of The Flying Scotsman
Landed in Shanghai yesterday. It’s amazing – it’s like a whole different country here! Contrary to previous beliefs, it’s not all sticky or covered in jam. Damn. I’ll keep looking for that place. The language barrier is tough. Chinese … Continue reading
Sipdroid and diamondcard
A few years ago when first travelling overseas I spent $10 on a SIP-to-landline calling service, Diamondcard, that would allow me to use Ekiga on my laptop to make phone calls while in the UK to the US. It works well, and it’s cheap. Nowadays … Continue reading
How to recover an ext3 volume with an unreadable journal
Last Wednesday I came to work to find my workstation had died overnight — and upon reboot, it failed to mount or fsck the root partition. Unfortunately it seems my disk has seen enough service and was having failed reads: … Continue reading
Gnome terminal 2.26 annoyingly protects running child processes?
Has anyone else been as annoyed as I am about this dialog? Every time I close a terminal which has a running child process, rather than the terminal closing and the child process(es) getting killed, gnome-terminal tries to protect: I’m … Continue reading
Firefox Three, Guinness World Records, and bananas.
So I guess bananas has nothing to do with it, although all you monkeys will be jealous to know I had one with my dinner, and it was tasty. However the real fruit of the day is (you guessed it) … Continue reading
Evolution Crash Detection
I’ve recently made the jump to the latest ‘n greatest desktop, GNOME 2.22. Altogether I’m quite happy with the software. Not so happy with all the Gentoo bugs. But that’s another story. One of my favorite bugs is the crashes … Continue reading
Cycling in Buckinghamshire, UK
So I got out on Sunday this weekend as well, and rode from High Wycombe to Aylesbury. It was a good ride! Proper English weather (rained like piss all day.) Took a few pictures as well. Quite nice that most … Continue reading