Peng’s pics for Sunday, 13 July
Posted by Peng on 13 July 2008
Sorry about not posting for a couple of days. RealLife issues took more time than expected, plus I ended up pushing my bod further than expected so I’ve had to spend less time at the comp and more time in pain management. If this keeps up I’m going to have to do a sudo upgrade on my pain meds.
- Frank Taylor: New Google Earth 4.3 (beta) Available – Version 4.3.7284.3916. No new features, but a number of bug fixes. Either way if you like Google Earth and you love how GE 4.3 is progressing you’ll want to get the latest update. There’s also been an Imagery Update with a lot of new areas getting images, especially high resolution images.
- Barry Burbank/Beyond the Forecast: Dewpoint Discussion. As someone who grew up in the deep south I always heard relative humidity being talked about in the weather reports. Once I moved to Boston I started hearing about the dewpoint and had no clue what it was. WBZ’s Barry Burbank has a great blog post about the difference between relative humidity and dewpoint, as well as why the dewpoint is a better measure of how oppressive the weather is.
- Ross A Del Duca: WINE Whine WINE. An excellent post about WINE for those who wonder what the hell I’m talking about when I discuss WINE, as well as why I capitalize the whole word. If you have questions about running Windows apps in Linux, you definitely want to read Ross’ post.
- Dennis Kaarsemaker: Gnome 3.0. Yesterday Og Maciel had a nice little post about tabs within tabs, and Dennis gives us a sneak peak at something I expect is coming in GNOME 3.0. I had to post a comment on his blog asking for more info about his screenshot because I’d love to be able to use whatever it is he’s showing.
- Debian Package of the Day: email-reminder: Never forget a birthday or an anniversary again! This handy little program uses a small cronjob to send you an email reminding you of impending birthdays and anniversaries. I used to have this kind of thing on my PDA and I love the ability to have it on my desktop computer. It even has a simple GUI to add the events to remember.
- Christer Edwards: Please Insert 25 Cents To Login. I’m going to have to check out this Easter egg the next time I restart my comp, or at least log out once I finish blogging and checking it.
- I Can Has Cheezburger: Teh Ten Commandments of Ceiling Cat. I need to make this into a desktop wallpaper, and I bet every cat lover out there will laugh at how true it is.
There, that wasn’t so bad now, was it? I hope to get back to almost daily posts of one sort or another soon, although tomorrow looks crazy and I won’t be able to post much until at least noonish on Tuesday. I hope you guys (and gals) are having a nice weekend. Here’s hoping the week doesn’t get off to too horrid a start.
/me lifts his coffee cup for the toast
