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Can you believe it’s July already? It seems I just had my annual review (aka birthday) a couple of weeks ago (it was in mid-May) and at the end of the week I need to make sure my DVR is set to tape the concert and fireworks from the Esplanade.
- Dining with ‘Dre: Shabu Hachi. While this review of a Los Angeles eatery may not mean much to those who don’t live in southern California, I love the way ‘Dre describes what a shanu shabu is. Just one problem: Now I’m hungry.
- Brian Burger: Happy Canada Day! Need I say more?
- SciFi Wire: Stargate’s Davis Is Dead. Don S. Davis, known to Stargate SG-1 fans as Major General George Hammond, passed away on Sunday of a heart attack. But people who pay attention know he was a character actor who has played whole lot more roles than just Gen. Hammond.
- Daniel Glazman: Linspire, Inc. It turns out that Linspire, who runs the Click ‘N’ Run (CNR) repository for some Linux distros, has quietly been sold. The question now is what will happen to Linspire, their free distro Freespire, and CNR.
- Christer Edwards: Enable Commercial DVD Playback on Ubuntu 8.04. One of the things that bug Windows users that switch to Linux is that playing a DVD isn’t as easy as installing something like WinDVD. But Christer has a great tutorial on not just how to get it to work in Ubuntu hardy but also why it’s not quite as easy as we’d like it to be.
Have a great rest of your week. I trust those of you in the States have plans to get together with family and friends on Friday, and I wish those north of the border have an awesome Canada Day. And I apologize for our current crop of politicians. I really didn’t have much to do with getting most of these particular asshats elected. In fact where possible I usually voted for the other guy.
Before I go, I have to admit that this? So me, other than the controller. So much so, in fact, that I turned it into a wallpaper.
