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whoisi theme

I posted about this on twitter already, but I hacked together a quick user theme for the excellent whoisi service.It works with either stylish or greasemonkey (there are two versions on the theme’s page, one for each excellent Firefox extension).

no GUADEC for me…

I was intending on going to this year’s GUADEC in Istanbul, Turkey… but, unfortunately, I’ve been having an amazingly horrid apartment experience.  I call it “the flat fiasco”.

A few recent travel photos

As always, I have lots more photos I need to post (and some on Flickr that I haven’t pointed out here), but here are a few photographs to share with you of my travels around the world in the past couple months. I visited Jakub in Liberec, CZ …then went...

Firefox 3!

Today is Firefox Download Day, and the release of Firefox 3.  Go get (and install) Firefox (it’s available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows too), and be counted as part of a world record!

wish I could post

There’s an error on my blog’s host that prevents me from posting anything interesting, such as pictures. Sorry. (I’ve tried a few times over the past couple weeks.) I tried posting that I have new pictures on Flickr. (Check them out! They’re from Paris, France!) I would also post something...

the history meme

It seems everyone else is doing it…history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head460 git91 rug88 cd81 ls34 xrandr16 ssh15 vi15 killall12 gitk11 gvimNotes: I save a lot of my history. Obviously, I use git a lot. I guess I also do a lot of...

Linux color calibration in 2008?

Dear Lazyweb, I remember seeing things about color calibration using a Spyder2 way back in 2007.  Has much progressed?  How would one do this in 2008 on openSUSE 10.3, specifically?(Hopefully someone like Hubert Figuière will come to the rescue.)Thanks in advance!

Photos from Prague

Two weekends ago, I went on a trip to Prague to visit some friends who were also visiting the city. Last weekend, I hopped over to Paris to visit a friend there, and to see the city for the first time.I don’t have many of the pictures posted, but I...