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A Wii Curling Travesty
A bit of background here for you. I’ve been a curler at heart since I first watched my dad slide down the ice at the age of 10 or so. I started curling when in High School, in the school boy league and quickly graduated in skill to the level of skip (team leader for […]
WordPress Upgrade “Gotchas”
Oh the joys of upgrades! As I am sure most of you are aware by now, the software on most computers that you install gets, or should get upgraded every now and then, either by small pieces of software called patches , or by larger pieces called upgrades. WordPress ( software upon which this blog […]
Ubuntu Lives!
Well I finally solved the puzzle of installing Ubuntu 8.04 within a dual boot environment alongside an already installed Windows installation. Unfortunately, the website I found the information on is lost within the Internet somewhere. It was during one of my many Google searches for the dual boot solution (recalling the problem as mentioned in […]
Closing the Loop
So I’ve spent quite a bit of time experimenting with my newly transferred drive (as mentioned in the last few dispatches ) and have to tell you that I am quite pleased all around. I was quite certain (based on my last experiences ) that I would eventually have to roll back to the original […]
A Disk Transfer Compromise…
So if you recall my posting from yesterday, I was extremely close to just giving up on moving my windows installation to my new hard drive and just installing Ubuntu Linux instead… It was very, very, very close… I also mentioned that I might give the net/Google one more chance to deliver what I need […]
