Category: Life in General

I would gladly pay for this, I really would. The best tool I have to use currently is BloGTK, and while it’s not bad, it doesn’t do WYSIWYG. The user (that would be me) has to click to insert the appropriate tags, etc., and that gets rather boring after… well, it’s boring. I found PyQLogger and it looks interesting, but as usual, all of the Python-dependencies aren’t to be found for my Fedora Core 3 laptop. Which reminds me, I’m starting to feel the itch to do a clean install on my laptop again, and I’m wondering if Kubuntu is worth trying out. Anyone have experience in the differences between Fedora Core 3 and Kubuntu?

I hate to say this, but I am really disappointed with the Win4Lin Pro product. For those of you who don’t know what this is… it’s software that allows you to run windows programs in Linux. Well, to be fair, it’s more than that. Being that it’s built on top of qemu, it’s actually a full-blown PC emulator which happens to run Windows 2000 and Windows XP, etc. The reasons I’m disappointed with this new product from Win4Lin are as follows: It’s REALLY slow. REEEEEALLY slow. Vmware is about 20 times faster. I have been a Win4Lin customer for years, and their old Win9X emulator was REALLY, REALLY fast. Like, twice as fast as Vmware. I was really expecting to Read more…

I am. I feel like I’m standing still when I should be running. I feel exhausted. I have little time and too much to do in it. Blargh. That’s about all I have to say about that.

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In case you’ve been living under a rock, or working at some large, silly corporation that develops only for Internet Explorer, Opera has just released version 8 of their excellent web browser. You can check out what has changed yourself–I won’t bore you with the list. Again, in case you’ve been living under a rock, or working at… somewhere less than clueful… Opera is a standards-compliant browser, is feature-rich, fully skinnable, has an excellent e-mail program, does lots of Really Cool Stuff (TM), and in general, is the browser that I normally try to make Firefox mimic when I occasionally switch back and forth between it and Opera. The things that Firefox does well are largely things that Opera has Read more…

I finally figured out how to do this, YAY!! This forum entry has more details, and I’ll blog more about it later, especially once I get all of my filters set up. For the time being, I only have my kde mailing list e-mails being filtered. Hmmm. Cool!! This means that I don’t have to set up filters in all the possible e-mail programs that I want to use (the list contains Kmail, Opera M2, Thunderbird, and evolution currently). Oh, and as another aside… I simply cannot speak highly enough about Justin and vortexhost.com. I dealt with another web hosting company before and was totally frustrated from their support. If you’re looking for a REALLY good, inexpensive web host, you’d Read more…