{"id":130,"date":"2007-04-26T19:02:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T03:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/130"},"modified":"2007-11-13T21:01:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T04:01:25","slug":"short-term-pastpresentfuture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/130","title":{"rendered":"short term past\/present\/future"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Gatherings<\/h3>\n<p>Had a nice get-together with the gifu-crew, on Sunday.  Chinese-Taiwanese-Japanese fusion hot-pot shabu shabu.  \ud83d\ude2e  The pot was courtesy of Shirley (thanks!), despite her not being able to make it.  Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t think there were are any pictures captured in the digital medium to show.  But it was good times!<\/p>\n<h3>Ubuntu Feisty<\/h3>\n<p>My Desktop PC was not able to complete a dist-upgrade of Ubuntu from Dapper to Feisty, and consequently has trouble booting.  Yes, I tried skipping Edgy, and I advise you <em>not<\/em> to do the same.  I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m just going to start with a fresh install, because my system was very cluttered with stuff I don&#8217;t use or need.  So I started going about backing stuff up, from a live CD boot onto my external USB drive&#8230; it was becoming very apparent that this would be painfully time consuming, as I was quickly running out of space.  Easiest solution?  Get another hard drive.  I did that and am now running Feisty.  Most of my settings and everything have been transferred and I must say I&#8217;m very impressed with the latest Ubuntu.  Videos seem to &#8220;just work&#8221; on Gstreamer Totem, and many things seem much snappier.  It will be making its way to my laptop soon, as well.<\/p>\n<h3>goals<\/h3>\n<p>When my computers are all back and healthy, I plan on regulating a few short-term goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Reading a chapter a day<\/strong> in my Python book, <em>Dive into Python<\/em>. I think I&#8217;m on Chapter 6 or something, at the moment.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blogging every 2-3 days.<\/strong>  I don&#8217;t need to have earth shattering news to report (do I ever?), but if I can&#8217;t say a little something every few days, then I&#8217;m certainly not doing enough with my time.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Update blog aesthetics.<\/strong>  &#8217;nuff said.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Enjoy the sunshine<\/strong>, when it comes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I <em>was<\/em> planning on making a nautilus extension for easy image resizing, but someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitron.ch\/software\/nautilus-image-converter.php\">beat me to the punch<\/a>.  It uses ImageMagick, is pretty much what I had in mind, and seems to work great.  \ud83d\ude42  I just tested it out with my meal from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloud9restaurant.ca\/\">Cloud 9 rotating restaurant<\/a>, on March 8th.  (I went there to take advantage of their extended <em>Dine out Vancouver<\/em> with a couple friends.)  I now demand that you become hungry, with pictures of FOOD!<\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/files\/2007-04-26\/2007-03-08--19.53.49.JPG?ssl=1\" title=\"yummy salmon\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/files\/2007-04-26\/2007-03-08--19.53.49.thumb.JPG?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" title=\"yummy salmon\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nThis salmon was excellent.  I believe it was in a <em>white butter cream and lemon<\/em> sauce.  Everything on that plate was excellent, except the shrimp which were actually quite bland and rubbery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/files\/2007-04-26\/2007-03-08--20.41.13.JPG?ssl=1\" title=\"cheese cake\"><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/files\/2007-04-26\/2007-03-08--20.41.13.thumb.JPG?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" title=\"cheese cake\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not a big fan of cheese cake.  It was alright.\n<\/div>\n<h3>links of the day<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/features\/20070425\/winterhalter_01.shtml\">Western Perspectives on Japanese Game Development<\/a> &#8211; Interesting Gamasutra link John sent me.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NBZQfAYfH7s\">Family Guy vs Christianity<\/a> &#8211; I swear, Family Guy is the Kevin Bacon of Youtube.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gatherings Had a nice get-together with the gifu-crew, on Sunday. Chinese-Taiwanese-Japanese fusion hot-pot shabu shabu. \ud83d\ude2e The pot was courtesy of Shirley (thanks!), despite her not being able to make it. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t think there were are any pictures captured in the digital medium to show. But it was good times! 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