kinda like batman, but with a wife and 3 kids

Miscellany meanderings….

My lovely wifey and I and our eldest beautiful daughter finally painted our kitchen over the last couple of days. It was well overdue, and I am everytime amazed by how much of a difference a good coat of paint makes!
I don’t care if it might not be from John Cleese, this Declaration [...]

Was going through my month+ of Plucker URLs and came across this post from Stephan Binner regarding the responsibilities of a KDE contributor. Very informative and common-sense, though I hadn’t thought of several of them. =:)

http://cia.navi.cx/stats/author/vanrijn.
Sweet mama, this is cool!! =:)
Dang, I need to find more time to work on code!! =:/

This one threw me for a loop.
I found a nice new program to change Gtk+ themes. It seems cleaner, nicer, and more finished-er than muhri’s gtk-theme-switch programs. And it does previews nicely, etc., and the only thing that it didn’t seem to do well was actually activate the theme that I wanted to [...]

Beta3 of OpenSuSE was released yesterday and I dutifully updated overnight last night. One snag I hit was a ton of conflicts from the cairo upgrade, but thanks to darix on #opensuse, I simply changed “update all with newer versions” in yast2 to “update all unconditionally” and Bob was my Uncle. And [...]

Just a quick word from the street that after a couple of days with OpenSuSE, I am still REALLY loving it.
Some things that I didn’t expect:

OpenSuSE comes with gcc-4, the latest version of the compiler. This caused the afore-mentioned compilation difficulties with VMWare’s kernel modules which I found a [...]

I am not, by nature, someone who enjoys doing the same thing over and over and over again. Variety is most certainly the spice of life. This holds true in every aspect of my life. The Linux distributions that I use are no different. For the longest time, I used [...]

I had this one sitting on my desk for 2 weeks at least from Blockbuster online rental. I had read somewhere that it was good, and I have always absolutely loved Bobby Darin’s voice and style. But I was not prepared for this amazing movie.
Beyond the Sea really affected me in [...]

The last iTunes e-mail brought this recent photo of Mick and the boys in front of my eyes. *blink* *blink*
Now, you can certainly give Apple kudos for having the unique ability to make anything in the world look good. I mean, honestly, Apple could make a dirty diaper look appealing.
However, these guys look [...]

You cannot deny the importance of Danger Mouse–neither in my growing up years, nor to the sanity and balance of the world. I can’t wait until these DVD’s show up from Blockbuster online!
Cor, Chief!!

(originally posted as Danger Mouse!!! and uploaded by vanRijn).

I must admit that I am very impressed with a some of the songs that were sent to me in the latest MP3Tunes e-mail sampler. Dragonfly by Universal Hall Pass, for one, is suprisingly enjoyable! To quote their Mercury album page…
An album aptly named for it’s ever-morphing musical backdrops with extremely adventurous [...]