Finally I'm back at my blogging. In the last few days I upgraded to a smartphone. I now have an LG Ally, which is an android phone. So far I absolutely love it. A couple of my favorite apps... doggcatcher - an excellent podcatcher. It is much better than its closest competitor, Google Listen. Another ap that I really like is connectbot, which I'm actually using right this minute to ssh into my server and type this blog post from my android. Surprising what you can do from a phone nowadays.
Well, once again I did it. I distro hopped, and as I always end up doing, I cleaned off the previous distro on my laptop, so I'm exclusively running Debian testing on my macbook now.
It's funny. I get everything all set up on my laptop, and then I decide to distro hop again. And it's not that I don't like the distro I'm running either. Debbie says that when I have everything right it's time to break something again.
Well, here we go again. I can't sleep. I woke up at around 2:30 and it's almost 4 now. I guess I might as well post an entry.
Been thinking about possibly doing a podcast in the future. I've been discussing it with my brother. We are both Christian, but we each have a different way of looking at faith, and so on, so we've thought about doing a sort of "Clear and Corker" or "Hannity and Colmes" sort of podcast. It would certainly be interesting. Whether it would garner any listening audience is another thing. I suppose it would some, but I'm not certain I want to deal with all of the flaming that would come my way, lol.
TG Christians has gone on hiatus, at least for now. I have decided to put it on the back burner for the forseeable future. I just have so many irons in the fire, what with work, the kids, and playing for church, plus having to find time for sleep, I just can't seem to do it justice right now. It wasn't going much of anywhere, mostly due to my not giving it the attention it needed. So for now, it will go away. We'll see what happens in the future.
This was a busy couple of weeks, and I've really been slacking with my blog posting. My other blog has suffered even more than this one! Last week I got my oldest daughter graduated from high school. It's sort of an odd feeling. I guess it's not really upsetting in any way. I'm excited for her. I'm happy she's doing so well. But surprisingly, I don't feel any older or anything like that. Maybe because I still have two who aren't grown yet. My youngest will be around for quite a few years yet.
I decided a while back that I was going to move my laptop over to Fedora Linux, and I finally have it completely done. I'm pretty content with it. I've run several versions of linux over the years. My son tells me I'm a "distro hopper". I've run Slackware, Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Arch, Debian, and Fedora. I'm probably forgetting something else. All of them have something to be said for them. I most recently ran Kubuntu. It was a good system, but I'm not thrilled with the direction that Ubuntu Linux is going. To me, Ubuntu is rather going the way of some of the big name closed proprietary systems. A free and open source system should follow what the public who is using it wants from it, and Ubuntu is not doing that. On the other hand, Fedora's only guide is what software is created for the free and open source market. If its users want a program, it makes it into the distro. That's what a free system should be. Get Fedora
It's that time of year again. Summer in Phoenix, AZ. I guess I sort of have a love/hate relationship with the Phoenix summertime. There are things I really enjoy about it. When you're inside and you walk out into the heat, it's like walking into a sauna. You get hit with that blast of hot air, and it actually can feel really good.
Well, I did it. I rockboxed my Sansa Fuse V2. Finally! I had an older Sansa E200 that I had rockbox installed on quite a long time ago, and I'm thrilled to finally have rockbox back again. The Sans Fuse, Version 2 just got it as of today, or perhaps yesterday. It's working wonderfully though! I highly recommend it, if your MP3 player will utilize it. It took probably 15 minutes to go through the hacks necessary.
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