Places I'm spending my time right now

Inkscape - Vector graphics drawing program

http://screencasters.heathenx.org/
http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/

The GIMP - Graphics program - ala photoshop, but free (beer + speech)

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
http://meetthegimp.org/

I'm also taking these video casts and making dvds of them for my portable dvd player that we just go. I might take one or two of them with me when we go on vacation.

What's going on?

It's been a long time since I posted anything around here. That's been due to a lot of things, but I guess mostly Facebook (also Mafia Wars. I know...). Also I've recently gotten back into D&D again. Mostly through listening to ActualPlay podcasts of games. I really like the way 4th Ed is going. I know a lot of people will scream ata that, but I was never into 3rd or 3.5. My last time was with the 2nd ed rules and they were absolutely too cumbersome for anything more than paperwork.

So, what's happening now... I'm spending time on Facebook, listening to podcasts and trying to figure out what's going to happen with my job. The facility I'm working in will be closed in Oct and I'm waiting to find out where and what I'll be re-assigned to. I'm not going to be doing any more speculation here or in public, so don't look for it. But since it is public knowledge that it's closing, I figured hey why not let people know why I'm not being vocal about it.

Today I figured out why my VMs were not working well. I've removed VMWare and am using VirtualBox, and it has different types of networking hardware. I just need to reconfigure the guest OS to use the new hardware instead ant it seems it will work right. I'm currently installing Ubuntu 9.04 into a vm from the minimal istall iso. I like the idea. I always got the Debian network install cd and used it, so now at least Ubuntu has one as well.

Enough for today. We're going out to lunch for Tammy's Bday today and I'll be working 3 days this week as I took her actual Bday off and then decided to shoot for a long weekend as well, so I'm having a 4day weekend after m-w this week.

Folks, I don't know if or when I'm going to be posting again, but don't worry, it will happen sometime.

A little old, but what the hell, it's the subject I'm thinking of right now.

Saw this nugget on FARK today. Thought it would be a good read for some people. It apparently went around back in December 08. So it's a little older. Read it all the way through. I'm pretty much of the same opinion. Let the market correct itself. It's going to be painful either way, so let's get it done and over with without all the extra debt.

For donutbuzz...

Just saw this, figured I'd post it before Donutbuzz... So Manchin can have his expensive inauguration, get his $55,000 pay increase, but a $13,000 dinner is canceled because of the economy? Wow, way to go there Joe, always get the best bang for your buck! Did you think maybe it would be a good idea to return your salary increase to the state's coffer's as well as the gross adjustments to the administrative salaries that happened while classified staff get nothing? Yeah, I'm just as pissy as Donutbuzz is about our "illustrious leader".

Linux stuff - KDE 4.1, Ibex, Kubuntu

I decided while trying to mess with VirtualBox last night, that I would instead of the Gnome version of 8.10 I'd put on Kubuntu. From just the eye candy alone, KDE 4.1 is worth it. Now granted I'm only in the initial stages of testing it and virtual performance is no indication of an actual install on the HD, but I just might when I finally upgrade to 8.10 (about the time that 9.04 (Jaunty J) comes out), put this on instead of the generic Ubuntu version. I'm going to have to get more in depth with it and it's going to take some time, so expect to see some updates to my experience with KDE.

Supposedly KDE 4.2 is out and will be even better than 4.1, so that's another thing to look into.