Archive for July, 2008

My Dad the Television star.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

My father is retired and has found that one of the many things he has the time to do now is pursue a television career. He has helped my uncle with many commercials and attended various shoots before, but this is the first thing that I've ever actually got to ...

I Need to Be More Like Wil Wheaton.

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Wil Wheaton has the right idea when it comes to blogs. He updates often and about many different topics. He has posts that are personal, posts that are basically advertisements for things that he thinks are cool, and posts that are pretty geeky or only of interest to a small ...

Elisa 0.5.1 Is Out!

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Our fantastic friends at the Elisa project have reached the 0.5.1 version mark. The media center is offically released, but the deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu have yet to hit the repos. As soon as they are put up I'll be updating my media server. In the meantime you can ...

How to Minimize Your Windows Usage.

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

I've been dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows XP since December 3rd of last year and I've come to use Windows less and less. My long term goal is to use Linux full time and ditch Windows altogether, but there are still a few pieces of software that don't run natively on ...