Links that are almost related
Here are links that seem more related today than most days
Speaking of DB2, anyone got XA working with DB2? ‘Cuz with every step
I take forward, I end up taking about 20 back. Installing DB2 Connect
seems to help, except for the fact that it’s the entire DB2
database as opposed to a client. Maddness!
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Google Talk
In case you didn’t know Google
Talk is live. It’s really just using the
Jabber protocal — which goes
right along with Google’s branding of exiting Open Source tools.
So, since it’s Jabber, you probably already have a client for it. Here
are the instructions for setting it up with Gaim and iChat. I’m
using it on Gaim right now. Send me a message if you get on.
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New Home Quirks
Every new home has it’s quirks and ours is no exception, but the
biggest ones are from Gina and myself.
Gina’s quirk is that she leaves the lid to the washer open while doing
laundry. So when she goes to continue the laundry, the clothes in the
dryer are finished but the washer hasn’t done anything more than fill
with water.
My quirk is that I leave the burner on the stove. I take the pan off
of it, but I just leave the burner on when I’m done. I sometimes do
a similar thing with the oven.
Any ideas on why we do those things? It seems kinda weird.
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Hi-5
Leah’s favorite show at the moment is Hi-5, which is similar to The Wiggles only
with teenagers. Hi-5 is available for free on OnDemand. Therefore,
Leah demands it all the time! She can’t say it, but she just holds
her palm up — just
like the Hi-5 logo.
Gina and I have seen these ad-nausem.
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NirSoft
I had two unrelated problems today that were solves by two different freeware
tools at NirSoft. The CurrPorts util was
especially handy.
Of course, in Linux I wouldn’t have needed either tool.
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Cygwin’s rxvt sucks
I thought of putting something witty as the title, but my frustration
won out.
I decided that the “normal” Cygwin bash prompt was annoying and people
on the web have said that running rxvt is the way to go. This worried
me, because I CygX is a memory hog and, when you are running Java app
servers, memory is what you need. But I decided to give it ago. I
liked it — very much. So I setup it up as my default Cygwin prompt
and configure startxwin.bat to run on startup and start an rxvt to
boot.
This morning, my machine was a mess and would not start anything. I
had to reboot. After booting and logging and having my startup
finish, my machine ground to a halt again. I rebooted again — and,
once again, my machine ground to a halt. This time, I removed
startxwin.bat from startup before Windows was able to run it (silly
Windows . . . ) and things were fine. I started rxvt manually and it
worked fine — for an hour. Then my machine halted again.
It takes me a while to learn sometimes (maybe even a whole wasted
morning) but now I’m not using rxvt anymore!
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It’s Strange
(Thanks
Rick!)
Isn’t it strange how a 20 dollar bill seems like such a large amount
when you donate it to church, but such a small amount when you go
shopping?
Isn’t it strange how 2 hours seem so long when you’re at church, and
how short they seem when you’re watching a good movie?
Isn’t it strange that you can’t find a word to say when you’re
praying, but you have no trouble thinking what to talk about with a
friend?
Isn’t it strange how difficult and boring it is to read one chapter of
the Bible, but how easy it is to read 100 pages of a popular novel?
Isn’t it strange how everyone wants front-row-tickets to concerts or
games, but they do whatever is possible to sit at the last row in
Church?
Isn’t it strange how we need to know about an event for Church 2-3
weeks before the day so we can include it in our agenda, but we can
adjust it for other events in the last minute?
Isn’t it strange how difficult it is to learn a fact about God to
share it with others, but how easy it is to learn, understand, extend
and repeat gossip?
Isn’t it strange how we believe everything that magazines and
newspapers say, but we question the words in the Bible?
Isn’t it strange how everyone wants a place in heaven, but they don’t
want to believe, do, or say anything.
Isn’t it strange how we send jokes in e-mails and they are forwarded
right away, but when we are going to send messages about God, we think
about it twice before we share it with others?
IT’S STRANGE ISN’T IT?
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The pastor search is over
One of the elders got up in front of church last Sunday and announced
that Pastor Dan Steen accepted our call to be our pastor. He and his
wife Rachel will be moving into our parsonage sometime around Labor
Day.
The congregation exploded in applause and some shed tears of joys. We
had been without a pastor for a year and had been through a difficult
time before our previous pastor left and we spent much time rebuilding
and re-envisioning what we wanted our church to be. And now we have
found a pastor that will help lead us through that time.
Probably the happiest group of people were myself and my fellow
members of the search committee. Besides the fact that there would be
a lot less meetings in our future, it was good to see all our hard
work come to fruition.
It was quite an experience being involved in the pastor search team.
Our denomination has a pretty rigid
process for searching for and soliciting candidates. We got a lot of
response from the ad we placed in our denominational magazine, which
is how we got in contact with Pastor Steen.
So we welcome Dan and Rachel to Omaha!
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“Think of me as a really greedy Home Ec teacher”
I saw Alton Brown at the The Mart on
Saturday. He is just as witty in person as he is on his show.
I was also impressed by the GE Appliances he was peddling. 20 pounds
of casseroles cooked in 19 minutes — wow!
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Technorati Woes
So I’m doing
the tag thing, I’ve claimed by blog, and
I manually ping
Technorati when I do an update.
I hate to sound whiny, but Technorati still seems to ignore me. I’ve
blogged
about Darcs, put a darcs tag in, but no love from Technorati.
If you use the search engine to the left to search my blog, it
searches all the other blogs. It knows my profile (see my bad picture
to the left).
Huh? Anyone have any advice?
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