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Us in Us!

Myself, Ryan and Peter all made it into Ray D’Arcy’s photography book, US! I bought the book today in Waterstones after my brother texted me to tell me it was on sale. Some of the images are amazing!
I got several shots into the book and I’m delighted!

Upgrading to Ubuntu Breezy

I resisted for as long as possible, but I finally upgraded to Ubuntu Breezy.
It was quite easy in the end. The upgrade notes and this page were of some help of course.
Be warned, that if you have GNUcash installed on Hoary, you should uninstall it. I didn’t and ran into these problems with libofx2. How to fix? Uninstall gnucash with the following command:

dpkg -r gnucash
dpkg -r gnucash-common

Now, run apt-get -f install and finally apt-get dist-upgrade again!

I can’t run GNUcash yet, I hope they get this fixed soon! (In an ironic twist, launchpad.net is down for maintenance, it’ll be back later!)

Later! I discovered how to fix the problem with libofx2! You need to remove libofx0c102 first!

# apt-get remove libofx0c102 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libofx0c102 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 803kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 84490 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libofx0c102 ... # apt-get install libofx2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libofx2 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/454kB of archives. After unpacking 3731kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 84466 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libofx2 (from .../libofx2_1%3a0.8.0-3ubuntu8_i386.deb) ... Setting up libofx2 (0.8.0-3ubuntu8) ... # apt-get install gnucash Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gnucash-common Suggested packages: gnucash-sql gnucash-docs The following NEW packages will be installed: gnucash gnucash-common 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/4194kB of archives. After unpacking 16.6MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package gnucash-common. (Reading database ... 84713 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gnucash-common (from .../gnucash-common_1.8.10-18_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package gnucash. Unpacking gnucash (from .../gnucash_1.8.10-18_i386.deb) ... Setting up gnucash-common (1.8.10-18) ... Setting up gnucash (1.8.10-18) ...

Top 25 Irish Blogs

Michael Larkin has posted a Top 25 Irish Blogs based on Technorati stats.

The inbound links for this blog are most definitely skewed by the fact that I’m a WordPress developer because there’s a shiny link in every new install! I’ll be very happy when In Photos shows up on such lists.

I haven’t read all the blogs listed, but those I have are a great read.

Cork blog – all about Cork City and County

Now, this is interesting. The Cork blog covers topics related to, you guessed it, Cork!
For some reason I found the entry about busses around Cork fascinating, possibly because busses are such a major part of urban life!

2007-11-01 – Bah, looks like the domain is gone. An MFA site is there now so I’ve mangled the links above. What a shame.

Cute Kittens

Who could resist cute kitten pictures? Well, Tom could of course 😉

Mario Unleashed – live!

I still prefer Gianna Sisters but this video of the Super Mario music and icons played live made me smile 🙂

Me and WordPress.com

Matt finally reveals what perhaps a few people have known or suspected for quite a while. I’m working with him, Andy and Ryan on WordPress.com.
I am very very happy with what we’ve achieved so far and can’t wait to get cracking on the new features planned!

That does explain why I don’t post as often here. I’m too busy. I’ve got a text file full of links that I haven’t read, but I do manage to post one photo every day on my photoblog. That’s a great outlet for my photo creativity!

(Thanks Donal for that link correction!)

Kayak.com – cheap flights and travel search engine

I’m not looking for cheap flights anywhere now, but when I am, I may very well use Kayak.com. It labels itself as, “not a travel agency, it’s a search engine that’s free to use.”
(via)

Photos From Space

APOD had two interesting photos over the last few days:

APOD: 2005 November 14 – Everest Panorama from Mars – click on the image for a *huge* panorama!
Lunation – animation of the moon over the course of a month.

Jintle has a lot more space photos too!

The Top Gear Survey 2005

If you were watching Top Gear tonight you no doubt took note of the Survey they released results for. They’re on the web but the lads in the studio didn’t have or couldn’t give out the URL. If you followed the suggest Google search, you’d have come across these two beauties:

BBC – Top Gear Survey 2005 Results which appears to only show a summary. The top and bottom ten as well as category winners.
The real meat is on topgear.com where they list all the cars entered as well as marques and ratings for each car.

I noticed with relish that Toyota are no. 5 in the manufacturer’s list. Surprisingly, Skoda are in second position, just behind Lexus. The purchase of Skoda by VW has paid off in recent years!