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Neat optical illusion
In: Personal
24 Jan 2010Takes a while, but quite cool. Follow the instructions…..
Cool Optical Illusion – Watch more Funny Videos
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- Tags: optical illusion, video
Now a BizSpark startup
In: Personal
20 Jan 2010My company, Tall Pine Technology, is now a Microsoft BizSpark Startup. I think with this development, it’s hard not to go all-microsoft for e-mail, etc.
Stalking me for tech support
In: Personal
16 Jan 2010Well, I have an interesting, if cautionary tale of why you might not want to help out strangers with software advice.
It started out when I posted detailed instructions on how to setup wview on Ubuntu. I posted and updated detailed instructions on how to set up a complete system, from start to finish. I maintain(ed) [...]
Weather underground now making a video
In: Personal
3 Jan 2010This is the last 24 hours from my webcam:
Stuff I install on Windoze
In: Personal
3 Jan 2010This is a partial list of stuff I install on Windows Vista and newer, on nearly every machine I configure, with a short description of why I use it:
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- Tags: basic, install, software, windows
Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 upgrade NIGHTMARE
In: Personal
21 Dec 2009Well, the Ubuntu team really screwed the pooch on the latest upgrade. I manage three Ubuntu machines, all with clean installs of 9.04. Well, I locally upgraded one of them, and tried to remotely upgrade the other two.
For the local upgrade I used the GUI, and for the remote systems I used do-release-upgrade as [...]
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- Tags: 9.04, 9.10, karmic koala, nightmare, ubuntu, upgrade
Cassie and I got back from the Galápagos islands on November 24th. We took, on four cameras, 15 600 pictures over the 14 days we were in Ecuador for our (belated) honeymoon.We were on board the Tip Top IV with Galapagos Travel for 11 days, and visited 13 islands.
We distilled these pictures and videos down [...]
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- Tags: ecuador, flickr, galapagos, galapagos travel, photos, tip top iv
Stephen Colbert and Alicia Keys
In: Personal
18 Dec 2009See more funny videos and Music Videos at Today’s Big Thing.
What English sounds like to foreigners
In: Personal
18 Dec 2009See more funny videos and Music Videos at Today’s Big Thing.
About this blog
David Kabal writes random bits about life, gadgets and computers. David is an engineer living in Boulder, Colorado, up in the mountains, where he's also a firefighter.
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- Dave: This post is no longer the easiest or best way of setting up wview on Ubuntu. The hard-working folks [...]
- Stalking me for tech support - Dave’s List: [...] started out when I posted detailed instructions on how to setup wview on Ubuntu. I posted and [...]
- Dave: Seems Weather Underground video support for webcams is intermittent at best. Sometimes the video wor [...]
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- All the Presidents’ Pets : The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over by Mo Rocca
- Voice of Reason : Why the Left and Right Are Wrong by Ronn Owens
- Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News by Tucker Carlson
- 1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- The Original Turtles Trading Notebook by Russell Sands
Current books:
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Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
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From Highrise to Haystack by Sylviane Duval
Recent books:
- Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun by Wess Roberts
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon