I’ve been avoiding upgrading Firefox from 3.5 since up until just recently I hadn’t found a good way to do it under Ubuntu. The only real option I’d found (apart from installing it manually) was using the mozilla-daily PPA, and that has some negative effects since you’re essentially installing a nightly developer-build of the browser that isn’t adapted to Ubuntu. It’s just a little too bleeding-edge for my taste; having your browsers behavior change on a virtually daily basis because you’re running nightlies of developer-versions is not something I recommend. Additionally it doesn’t install the Firefox-branded version but rather the generic Iceweasel-version instead, which is a minor annoyance.
I’ve been using Firefox as my main browser for many years now, and I see almost no incentive to change that habit. I’ve used it since back before it was Firefox, back when it was Firebird, and it’s still the best browser in most ways. 3.6 has made it better by removing some of the annoyances I had with 3.5, most notably how the browser would often simply “pause” for a second or two. Admittedly a lot of these annoyances could stem from me using about 56954 different extensions but whatever.
It’s a nice improvement, and if you’re using Ubuntu then the abovementioned PPA will be a nice and easy way to upgrade. It won’t blow your socks off, but it’s a nice improvement. Slightly faster and more of the same Firefox-goodness we’ve all come to love over the years.
I just found this completely awesome video of some norwegian dude doing pixel-art when re-tiling his shower. This is so cool! Lots of work but deeply impressive results!
Maybe some day when I redo my kitchen I’ll steal this idea and do a pixelart tile motif in it somewhere…
Either click the link up there to go to Vimeo and watch the video in much better quality, or enjoy the embedded (lesser-quality) version down below.
I’m not much for clocks on my wall. Part of this is due to the fact that I’m old-fashioned and wear a wrist-watch, but mostly it’s due to my deep and utter dislike for clocks on walls. Most of the time they’re ugly, useless, ticking pieces of plastic.
However, this clock I actually like. It’s just simple digital (duh) digits. The neat thing about them is that they’re OLED, and in sunlight they’re black and in darkness they’re white. Don’t get it? Look at the picture below.
I like minimalist type designs, and as such this appeals to me. Currently the clock isn’t in production but if it starts being produced and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg I could consider buying one.
Well, I took the dawg (aka Hilda) and walked to the petstore today. Good times, she was really excited and behaved mostly well. Unlike some other dogs I’ve encountered she understood that it was not dog-heaven and she wasn’t free to play with all the toys, other dogs or eat all the candy. But it was exciting, none the less, and a good walk.
Bought a orange rubber ball that we had fun with earlier tonight. Man, throwing a ball and watching this dog chase after it is like firing a cannon. She shoots off at the speed of sound, I kid you not.
Here’s a picture of her and the cat chillaxing in the couch. The cat is extremely uninterested in the dog but tolerates her. The dog is curious about the cat but is a little nervous after being hit in the face by aforementioned animal quite unexpectedly the other day.
Can anyone guess what this is a closeup photo of? And no, it’s not some kind of extra-terrestrial eggs. Full 8 mpx shot is available if you click on the photo.
“The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Please copy and paste your bolded books read, italicized books as ”want to read”, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak. What does the list say about your reading habits?”
Well, let’s see what I’ve read and what I want to read.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (I read up to and including The Order of the Phoenix after which I just grew tired of the series)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Yeah, weird topic. However, I discovered MyPaint purely by chance earlier today. It looks like a neat Painter-style application geared towards people with a preference for Free and Open Source software. It runs on Windows and Linux, and there’s a nice .deb ready for Ubuntu from GetDeb so installation was a breeze.
I dug out my ancient Wacom tablet (not my tablet pictured, mine is a lot more dirty and worn, and I lost the silly mouse thing years ago) which I’ve had for almost a decade (it turns ten this summer) and got a little curious as to how painless it would be to get it running under Ubuntu. Turns out it was completely painless – plug it into an available USB-port and presto, everything works just as expected. Especially important was the pressure-sensitivity, and when I gave it a quick go in MyPaint it worked just fine.
So, maybe soon I’ll be doing some virtual painting again? Was a long time since last I did this, might be fun!
There’s a labrador sleeping right behind me. This is her first time away from home, and I think she’s a little scared. But she’s quite easy-going anyways, I guess it’s just weird being away from master and mistress. She’s about two years old, more charming than a smiling piglet and very social.
The dog in question is Hilda. Normally she lives with the couple where I got to see The Zapper, and I suggested that she live with me while they’re off on a midwinter vacation for two weeks in Tenerife.
We’ve been bonding today. Earlier in the evening we went for a short walk and managed to meet no less than five other dogs who also were out stretching their legs. One of the dogs was the somewhat more grown-up version of the puppy I blogged about back in May. The dogs immediately became good friends, playing around in the snow. The owner of the dog in question suggested we go down to the field and let them play in the snow. Sure, why not? We walked down, I unleashed Hilda and the dogs played for a while. Meanwhile me and the owner of the other dog –which was a (I think) American Cocker Spaniel– chatted for a while about dogs and the various intricacies and pleasures of owning a dog.
After a while we decided it was time to go home, and we took our respective dogs and headed back to the apartments. Goodbye greetings to the man and then we were inside again. Hilda being quite snowy but very happy having made a new friend.
Who knows what the morrow will bring?
Here’s a photo of the girl just ten minutes after her arrival here earlier today.
Ja, rubriken säger väl det mesta. Snart fyller jag 30 för andra gången. Ni är välkomna att anmäla er på mitt Fejsboks-event om ni vill komma förbi, äta tårta, snacka strunt eller vad det nu blir.
Linda gav mig i uppdrag att klura på födelsedagspresenter. Två av de blygsammare önskemålen är antingen en ny smörgåsgrill (den jag har nu håller på att falla i bitar) eller en fritös (så jag kan göra Tonkatsu eller Pizza Fritta) men för en stund sen kom jag på en tredje.
Den är dock för de som är stadd vid ganska ordentlig kassa, men det är ett genuint önskemål.
Om någon skulle vilja köpa en Philips LivingColors-lampa till mig i present skulle jag bli äckligt glad! Jag har varit förtjust i konceptet ända sedan de först dök upp för nåt år sen, och jag tycker det är ett supermysigt koncept. Jag är lite dimmig på var man kan hitta den, men nånstans borde den ju finnas.
En prövande julafton på många vis, mestadels positiva. Men, jag fick ett önskeställ i julklapp och det gjorde mig glad! Nu ser det nästan ut som om jag faktiskt kan nåt om hur man spelar musik.
