So, you can have your iTunes and Linux it too!
This is absolutely the coolest Open Source thing, by far, this month. In fact, it might be the coolest thing I’ve seen in a couple of months. Jon Lech Johansen (you might remember him as the guy who largely made it possible to watch those pesky little DVDs that you paid good money for on the Operating System you choose) has done it again.
Mere Christianity, Sunday BBQ
After talking with John from KKSM, I ordered and received Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. I read the preface thus far and underlined about half of it. It is SOOOOO good!! I absolutely love C.S. Lewis’s writing style. He is both precisely clear and creative at the same time. One example:
London, under attack
The Da Vinci Code
So, my sister Jenny was reading The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown when she came out for her vacation and since she bought the bigger version (with pictures), she gave me her old one. And thus I got hooked. She had me read a couple of pages in the middle of the book, and my first reaction was a strong distaste. I mean, this is Jesus the story is meddling with. Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, my Lord and Savior–you’ve heard of Him, surely.
Wisdom from Ben Stein
I just had a good friend point this article from Ben Stein out to me. Wow. It is extremely well-done. I’ll paste a few excerpts from it…
More muscle than you kin handle
Just finally got a chance to sit down at the laptop for half an hour and uploaded 50 pictures or so from the great time I had over the last couple of weeks. My sister (Hi Jenny!!) and her 2 youngins (Hi Nate and Elijah!) were out for 2 weeks. We had a blast, visiting Hershey, indoor swimming and diving, Lake Tobias, and other cool stuffies too.
Even if you remove the language, you are still shooting people…
Here’s an interesting e-mail exchange between me and the Ubisoft folks in regards to their amazing new game, Splinter Cell, Chaos Theory…
Flickr assimilation now complete
I have now joined the Borg Collective officially, I can say, and have moved all of my photos off of my personal website and onto my Flickr account. Time will tell the wisdom of this move, I suppose. I can say that the features that Flickr offers are WAY cooler than anything else I’ve seen in this space. I had previously been using Singapore, but became quickly disenchanted by the lack of good themes/templates and the lack of integration into WordPress.
Sweet little Flickr Uploadr thing for Linux
I don’t know why I didn’t think of looking sooner, but after struggling with the official Flickr Uploadr in Linux with Wine (the tool itself works great, but the windows file selector doesn’t allow you to preview images, and I can’t find a windows tool that works in wine that does show previews/thumbnails and works with drag-and-drop to the Flickr Uploadr), I decided to search for a Flickr Uploadr solution for Linux.
Flickr Uploadr for Windows runs fine under Linux with Wine
Yay! =:) Drag-and-drop doesn’t work, but the program installs and runs fine in Linux with wine!! The versions I’m running (I’m using Mandrake LE 2005 (10.2) these days):