Clevercanaries

When I first built my superduper gaming machine in 2004 I of course installed XP on it. I played a lot of Call of Duty, both Max Payne titles, Halo, Far Cry, etc. After a few months I started to get more interested in Linux while playing with it on my laptop. I bought another hard drive and installed Slackware 9.0 on it. Since then I probably booted into windows under ten times. Once to use Turbo Tax, and a few times to get some photo or document I needed off of it.

When I discovered how to mount the XP partition in Slackware using LVM, I never had to boot into windows at all. It has been about a year I think.

Now I don’t have a choice. I repartitioned that array and installed Kubuntu 8.10 on it. (Sorry it wasn’t Gentoo Alex). I don’t like Gnome and I wanted to be able to say I’ve installed and used a *buntu recently. Not everything Slackware does is transferable to all Linux distributions, so I thought I’d expand my horizons.

I just filled out my first unemployment form this afternoon. That’s always been good luck for me. The longest I’ve been on unemployment is 2 weeks. I usually get one check, then a job.

I did see a post on craigslist for someone to upgrade a Wordpress (<< Wordpress spell check flags Wordpress, wtf?) blog from 2.6 to 2.7. I replied, but of course heard nothing back. I have done a lot of upgrades to this server over the years, including one that went horribly wrong, so I decided to at least do the 2.6 - 2.7 upgrade on this blog. It went well. Maybe I should advertise my services.

I also set up openID for myself. I’ve never had an occasion to use it until now, but it’s something else I know how to do.