On Friday evening, I watched my dog have two seizures. It was a fluke that anyone was home when it happened. My mom had come home early and I was sick at home, reading upstairs. She didn’t know I was there, so I decided to come down to say hi […]
Monthly archives: November 2008
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I’m starting to build a Catholic case for free culture. I’m no theologian, so I’ve got some research to do on what may be relevant to explore. I’ve found a few leads so far: a Catholic free software group, Elèutheros, focused on exploring the affinities between the philosophies of free […]
I’m pretty sure this is the same fix I used in Gutsy and Hardy, but I had to do it again to get my ThinkVantage button working on my ThinkPad T61 in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. I just added the following line to /usr/share/hotkey-setup/ibm.hk and it worked after a reboot. setkeycodes […]
Overall, I’ve been pretty happy after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10, but there were a few annoyances. I noticed my Thinkpad scroll buttons stopped working, and when I checked xorg.conf, all my changes were commented out with a note “HAL is now used.” At least wasn’t too hard to figure out […]
Over the next few months, I hope to start writing a bit more on a wider variety of subjects. This is just a heads up for anyone subscribed via RSS, in case you don’t care about the Theology of the Body or the latest Ubuntu release, that separate feeds are […]
Last week, a friend of mine asked me where I derive my self-worth from. Is it from things like academic success? Apparently, I paused for a moment before responding, “from my relationships with other people.” She went away thinking about my answer. I went away thinking about her question. What […]