Archive for July, 2006

One Red Paper Clip = One Saskatchewan Home

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Earlier on this site I wrote about Kyle Macdonald and his amazing journey with a red paperclip, and a dream of owning a house! On July 12th 2005 Kyle posted a picture of a red paper clip and issued a statement to anyone who would read it. His intent was to trade the paper clip […]

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Linux Install….Moving on

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

I think I am a patient woman. I think I am a reasonable woman. But everyone, including the penguins, has their limits. Suse, for as wonderful as the beginner package was, is useless to me. The second distro in a row that will not utilize my wifi! I went to the links that so many […]

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Swapping Ubuntu for Suse

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Okay, so I have switched from Ubuntu to Suse. Why you might ask? Well because a laptop that is not connected is a useless paper weight in my world. How can I possibly hold my forever waning attention if I don’t have a world of sparkly distractions at the disposal of my finger tips? No […]

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All Banged Up

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Hey everyone, I thought I would drop a note to let you know that I am not dead, just in hiding. I was in a minor accident a week ago. It was me, a bike, a car, and a road…the road won. It was nothing major, trust me I will live, but I am a […]

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Open Office Spelling Bee

Friday, July 14th, 2006

So another problem I am having with my new operating system is with the admin/ office side. In other words…Open Office org sucks so far! Every time I am typing a document, my curser skips a line and goes to wherever it wants to…very very annoying. Plus, my spell check doesn’t work. Trust me, I […]

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Making Ubuntu Talk

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Okay, so far I have a somewhat working laptop with Ubuntu as the operating system. I say somewhat because I still can’t open certain attachments, videos or music clip. While I was very frustrated with this, Jonathan informed me it was normal and that I just had to install Flash player. What Jon and his […]

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Cradle to Cradle

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

A while back I blogged about the book Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. At the time I was of course singing the praises of this book and I still am. The difference is that I have actually finished the book now. I had been procrastinating over the last 2 chapters for […]

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Ubuntu, 4318 & WIFI/AKA the Bad, the Miserable & the Unworkable

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

So I have been working on line through Ubuntu for about a week now. I have had a couple of inquiries on how I got it working. Well, it wasn’t easy. In fact it was ridiculous! To expect so much investigation and work in order to make your distro work is unrealistic. It took about […]

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Turning on the Tunes

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

I remember the magic of vinyl when I was growing up. Ol’ Chubby Chase, Charlie Pride, or Don Williams would float up from my dad’s den, accompanied by the static scratch of the needle and record. I was of course not allowed to touch the albums, and trust me he always knew when I did, […]

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Linux and The Devil Touchpad

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Okay, so lets deal with some of the problems that are freaking me out about my first experience with Linux…and Ubuntu. One of them is the stupid jumping touchpad. You know , when you are typing away on a really good rant and then suddenly you are typing on a totaly different line. Or you […]

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