Barefoot running is a new sub-culture rising up out of the mainstream running culture. It is exactly what it sounds like: Running without shoes. Once you try it, you’ll immediately realize with astonishment that you’ve been taught the wrong way to run all your life.
CentOS 5 + KDE 3.5 = A nice, productive desktop
In my travails to find a nice KDE 3.5 (as opposed to KDE 4) desktop, I’ve finally landed on CentOS 5 and, with a little tweaking, I think I can finally live with this distribution.
On the Prevalance of Migratory Frogs and their Socio-Psycho Bearing on the Asymtomatic Elliptic Progress of Hibernating Woodland Squirrels
On the Prevalance of Migratory Frogs and their Socio-Psycho Bearing on the Asymtomatic Elliptic Progress of Hibernating Woodland Squirrels
Farewell RedRival (New Year’s Day 2010)
Some might know but many do not know that I’ve been the guy behind RedRival Internet Services. RedRival is closing its doors after twelve years of existence. We were on the market in the twentieth century. How many can say that? There has only ever been myself operating RedRival but I do owe many thanks to people who have helpd me over the years.
New Year’s Eve 2009
Goodbye 2009, hello 2010!
Audio Codecs – Enjoying Music vs The Audiophile Argument
In lossy compression formats, like mp3, aac, aac+, ogg, etc., everyone always tries a new format and listens extremely closely for audible quality problems. The problem here is how you listen to music normally and how you analyze music in detail.Everyone listens to music for enjoyment, not paying much attention to quality. But when it comes to thinking about an encoding format, everyone immediately becomes an audiophile and won’t let go of their high bit rate files.
Disdaining Gentoo (Part 2)
In a previous post I mentioned I ditched gentoo for ubuntu and then switched to kubuntu shortly after. This is all in a span of a week or two. Well, I just switched again.
CAN vs LAT 16-0: Do you feel like a man now?
Canada shut out Latvia 16 to nothing. Tell me, does that make you feel good, Team Canada? Are you proud of yourself?
Disdaining Gentoo
Gentoo Linux has its problems. Gentoo once heralded the source-based distribution revolution. You could setup your system at a very low level, compile everything, tweak everything, optimize everything. It was great for a time.
Nim’s Winter Journey
On this Christmas Eve, gather family around, turn down the lights, and allow yourself to be taken away by the magic of Nim and his world.