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28
February

My first KDE CVS commit!

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

I am so proud. =:) My first KDE CVS commit!

25
February

I happened to be on a date this evening with my lovely bride and my eldest beautiful daughter, and happened also to hear The River of Dreams by Billy Joel. I had forgotten how good he is. I think my favorite Billy Joel album is The Bridge. Probably partly because during [...]

20
February

Commercials are the best things on TV

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

Honestly, they really are. I LOVE them. My lovely bride thinks I’m nuts, and I irritate her to no ends when, on rare occasion, we sit down to watch TV together. Rather than skipping through all the commercials like my bride does, I will very often insist on watching some of [...]

18
February

You say “Borg”, I say “Good clean fun”

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Video Games

I’ve finally broken down and purchased an Xbox. Circuit City had it combined with the DVD playback kit ($30 value) for $149.99, which seemed to be a good enough deal to fork over the money. I must say… it is REALLY nice. Microsoft has done an exceptional job at building, marketing, [...]

16
February

WordPress 1.5 released!

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 1 comment Posted in: Life in General

So, they snuck this one in on me. =:) I didn’t realize that 1.5 was released yet, but apparently, it was. I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded to a completely stock 1.5 installation, as well as cleaning up the directory structures a bit so that future upgrades are easier. This means [...]

15
February

You can have sound or sound, but not both

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 2 comments Posted in: Life in General

Like many other things, sound in Linux is not nearly as easy as it should be. Briefly, the problem is that many/most sound cards in computers these days do not do hardware sound mixing. This means that they are physically unable to handle 2 or more programs trying to ask it to play [...]

14
February

This just in, though not me

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

Wow, I really need a vacation. And, curiously enough, I am now on one, thank God. Just in the nick of time, I think.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday were not at all restful, for a variety of reasons. Not at all.
Sunday was starting to look restful, and I had a [...]

08
February

The doldrums and how you can get involved

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. 2 comments Posted in: Life in General

Doldrums.
I’ve got them.
I get them more often than I’d like.
Now what to do with them….

01
February

17″ Powerbooks, G5s, and tigers, oh my

Written by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper. No comments Posted in: Life in General

I ran across this article that discusses a total Mac newbie’s first impressions with Mac OS X. It’s pretty light and entertaining reading. And what it’s done more than anything has been to whet my appetite for a Mac OS X box myself. Truth be told, I’ve always loved the Mac OS, [...]