Monthly Archives: September 2005

WordPress.com Top Blogs!

Yay! Andy did a great job adding stats to the Dashboard! Here’s a screenshot.
This should make blogging at WordPress.com even more attractive as you know other people are going to know about what you’re blogging.
I’m still rather fond of reading the site through an RSS feed but that’s only managable now because there are so few blogs being updated.
When we’re bigger than Blogger.com that won’t be as easy!

Borders Chicago: Kirstie Alley

Way back in May Kirstie Alley appeared at Borders to sign her new book. Apparently the week before Sylvestor Stallone was in signing his book and the place was thick with people. Local media were there and Jacinta and I may have appeared on TV. Hey, I kept shooting with my 300mm zoom while the camera man had his camera trained on us so you never know!

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Ubuntu: back on the scene

I installed Ubuntu ages ago but never got around to configuring it:

  • Firefox didn’t like my .mozilla or .firefox directories. It complained that my default profile was already in use.
  • Thunderbird didn’t work either but I can’t remember why. Could have been the same reason.
  • Mplayer had to be installed from source. I didn’t want to go through the hassle of installing a compiler and associated development libraries.

This morning I rebooted my Debian desktop, only to discover that it wouldn’t boot again. It complained about needing an old version of modutils. Arrggghhh! Wasn’t this the perfect time to try Ubuntu again?
I rebooted, and managed to massage Firefox and Thunderbird enough that they worked.
Mplayer was still a problem but after looking around a bit here’s the easy way to install Mplayer:
Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse

Do an “apt-get update” and “apt-cache search mplayer” to find the right Mplayer for your CPU.

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