Blogging Tools
Added ftpsync a perl script to my list of simple blogging tools. This a perl script that compares the files on the remote server with those in the local directory where I keep a copy of my blog.
That eliminates the hassle of having to write my own perl script to sync things up. So far I've got markdown along with BlazeBlogger and ftpsync working together along with some simple bash commands run as external tools in gedit and things are pretty much automatic. I write the post using the markdown markup code then one key press and that is converted to html that blaze likes and it gets added in to blaze then when I'm through with all my writing a ctrl-F6 runs blaze-make and then uses ftpsync to put it all on the site.
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Stargate Universe
So I gave the new Stargate series on SyFy several episodes to get past a monumental case of suck but it still sucks. So I'm giving up on it. I enjoyed the the original and the Atlantis spin off but this newest incarnation is filled with a host of characters that are thoroughly unlikeable. The scientists seem totally incompetent along with the military personnel that are with them. I mean come on these are people that were hand picked to serve on a super secret off planet mission could they really not find anyone better suited for that than this bunch of losers? I am extremely disappointed.
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Ubuntu Upgrade
So I took the plunge and did a clean install of ubuntu 9.10. I had been running ubuntu 8.04 for a very long time now and I was getting tired of running into things that I couldn't install because of out of date libraries and such. One of those is calibre the open source ebook management tool. I managed to install it on 8.04 so that I could use the command line conversion tools but wasn't able to use the gui. That was just one of the things that I was wanting to use and couldn't. I'll get to the others later on.
I've found that as I've gotten older I really don't enjoy tinkering with the computer as much as I used to. Now days I really just want most everything to work with a minimum of fuss. So far this is proving to be just that easy. Nothing that I've tried has really caused any problems. Admittedly I haven't really been doing much that could be considered ground shaking with this release but all of the basics seem to work well. I can browse whatever internet sites I want and everything seems to work flash etc, and I haven't run into any applications that I need that haven't been available through the repositories.
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Things That Bind
Via AWR Hawkins » PajamasMedia » The Documents That Bind Americans Together
Before the left began its determined assault on education in the 1960s, citizens in the United States were proud to be “Americans.” There was such a thing as an American culture and through freedom it bound citizens of this country together, even if imperfectly, regardless of their race, creed, or religion.
Found this post at PajamasMedia and thought it was worth reading. The way things are going right now it would be good for all Americans to remember just what it is that ties us all together.
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