I finally got a decent file manager app running on my Pepper the other day. It’s emelFM, a pretty slick GTK1 file manager. The latest version compiles with the GTK1 RPMs I’ve made, though there are a few bugs in the internationalization files that gettext chokes on that I had to fix. I’ll be working on building source and binary RPMs for the Pepper soon!
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UTS gets yet another externally-selected principal
“Following an international search, the University of Toronto Schools’ Board of Directors, last night approved the appointment of ” a new principal — the former principal of our arch rival, UCC?!!?! Did they just snipe a real good catch, or is UTS being infiltrated by private school interests?
I’ve always believed that the best administrators for UTS have come from within the school. When I was there, it really seemed like a totally different school environment from anything else, and so who better to understand it then a former teacher or student. Sigh. Well at least she’s Canadian this time around.
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Meddlers
I think that meddlers are the class of people who I detest the most. ‘To meddle’ is defined as:
- To interfere into other people’s affairs or business
- To tamper, or handle something ignorantly
People who are protesting Canada’s seal hunt are meddling. Seal hunting is a strange thing to be sure, but interfering with people who are doing their legal, government-sanctioned and controlled jobs won’t stop it. You want to stop seal hunting? Prove something new about how bad it is, and stop showing old footage and old information from the 1980s. And if you simply disagree with killing mammals on prinicpal, why aren’t you picketing the nearest slaughterhouse?
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Jack’s first day
The secret is out now. On Saturday we got a new addition to the house. His name is Jack, and as you can see he’s small, orange/white, and feline. Like all felines he has three stages:
- Eat a lot
- Run around a lot
- Sleep a lot
This is stage #3.
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General update
Finally, this week the weather is starting to break into the double-digits, and it’s finally looking like spring in Toronto. Birds are singing and flocking to our backyard feeders, the ground is starting to defrost and soon I’ll be planting the vegetable garden.
Spring also means spring cleaning. The car got a thorough cleaning over the weekend. I love cleaning the car.
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This morning I HATE WORDPRESS
Why do they make WordPress so hard to upgrade AGH. I hadn’t had enough coffee this morning and ended up screwing up my WordPress install. FUDGE. Now I have a handful of plugins to reinstall, have to re-customize my theme, bloody hell!
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Graphic Hunting
I’m looking for a cool image to put on the front of my new notebook at work. I thought about a map of something cool, then thought about those Moscow Metro panoramas, but right next to it was a link to posters from the US Work Projects Administration from the late 30s – early 40s. There are some really cool designs in here, right now I’m looking at this and this. This guy is very happy to sell you a low-rent home! Don’t forget to keep mum, the world has ears.
How could I ever forget about eBoy though! Totally crazy awesome pixel perspective images. Mmm. I Heart Pixels
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CBC is horriible busted today…
None of the links from the CBC RSS feeds are working today… but, if you delete the ‘?ref=rss’ from the end of the URL, it works.
Also, I tried to leave them a note about this, but all I get back is:
An error occurred while processing your request. Reference #102.286fed8.1141677048.1c993Seriously, folks, can you get this fixed? It’s been literally ALL DAY.
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Caveat Emptor!
This post on the Newtontalk mailing list written by Richard S. Sternberg is an excellent summary of consumer protection recourse, including a good description of the BBB and what they do. Jon, you might be interested in this…
Of course, in Ontario we have some of the better consumer protection laws in North America.
