FreshUbuntu

yes!  Finally!  with the help of a reader and perhaps listener of Fresh Ubuntu I have successfully enabled the compiz feature on my Jaunty Jackalope install.  I can say with all honesty that most everything works, at least that I know of.  But, if I find something that is a bit wacky i will be sure to let everyone know.  Many thanks to Everett Attebury for giving me the heads up on the updated Compiz package in the jaunty-proposed repos.  Here is a link to the comment left by Everett

I knew it was going to happen.  The timing was right, the weather was perfect, the stress level was at an all time high, and I have five kids that bring home more than just their homework.  I have been sick, no really!  I have had the strangest symptoms that would cause Dr.

The storm caught me unsuspected this past month even though the regional weather reporters had predicted it days in advanced.  But, who besides a true pessimist can trust folks who predict rain and gloom 99% of the time during the months of November through May and sometimes into June.  I have become a completely cynical towards most any prediction even from weather people who I presume get scientifically sound data and then extrapolate that data to get to a clear and unified conclusion.  Maybe it's just me, but I have been burned once too often by weathermen especially while

I had the good fortune of receive an invite to Grand Central from Google. This was pretty quick considering that I just asked them to reserve a number a few days ago! Thanks Google, first for a fairly decent mailbox and now a new phone number! The concept is simple, the big "G" gives you a phone number from any one of the contigious 48 states of your choosing and when people call that number Google will ring any number of phones which you list on your profile all at once.