Daily Archives: July 7th, 2009

On restoring Ubuntu after messing it up

I messed up my Ubuntu install last night by wrongly deleting a package that was essential for network access.
Fortunately, I had a spare FAT32 partition I had created for sharing files between Windows and Linux, so I made a tarball of my home directory and saved it to that partition. I also rebooted into Windows [...]

Swanson Shields on Attending Funerals

I just learned via Google News of an item in the Washington Post so profoundly obvious that it is amazing the editors decided to publish it:
Arts & Living > Music >
Jackson’s Casket Expected at Memorial Service:

Michael Jackson’s casket will be front and center during his star-studded memorial service today at the Staples Center in [...]

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