Technology seems to hate me. I was getting mega spam on my photoblog so I tried to implement an anti-spam thing but it didn’t work; I got spam but couldn’t get any other comment :crazy:. I tried a different anti-spam thing, which I thought was working but actually I can’t get comments at all. I […]
This computer makes me nuts
It just ate my post that I was writing. Grrr. Other “grrr”s today include my arm hurts from something at karate last night. There are heaps of tail tips for me to extract DNA from and genotype because the people who keep our mice apparently have been breeding them (I thought they weren’t) but they […]
CUPS and Gutenprint
We bought new ink for the printer today so I decided it would be a good idea to have another crack at installing the printer on Kubuntu. I used the printer wizard and it wouldn’t install the driver, so I tried in administrator mode; that didn’t work either. I downloaded the source for Gutenprint (a […]
Blech
I just got the hiccups while eating my breakfast. It was really gross. Good news – my back is feeling better, pain is gone.
Job rant
I keep hearing about how Australia has a “skills shortage”. I think this means that there aren’t enough people ready-trained in jobs. I have heard that despite this shortage there is less money going into TAFEs. I’ve also noticed that schools are getting seriously lazy in teaching people to think. Students wrote learn so many […]
Thursday Thirteen #31
Thirteen places I’d like to visit. 1. Paris. I learnt French at school and did one uni class on it as well, I’d love to go there and try to speak the language. 2. North and South Carolina. Nicholas Sparks always makes it sound so lovely in his books. 3. Perth. Yep, I live in […]