Yearly Archives: 2006

Videos: The Mock Family Christmas 2006

Meara Playing Around with the Cat Cubes Meara Crying at America’s Funniest Home Videos Opening the Gifts Delayed by the Blizzard in Colorado

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Unexpected Library Behavior: Part 1 – QCheckBox setCurrentText(QString&)

Anyone using the Qt 3.x libraries have probably run into the occasional oddity, however what I’ve discovered is a little too odd to not mention. When dealing with combo boxes, you generally find helper functions that provide accessors / modifiers … Continue reading

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Next On Nightline: Government Recommends “Hand Holders” for Taking Pain Meds

Tonight on Nightline, we aired a report regarding persons unknowingly taking more than recommended doses of pain medications, by means of “combination drugs”. After this report the government panel investigated this issue further, and has recommended that every American be … Continue reading

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How to get ‘find ./ | xargs’ to work with files that have spaces…

Many times I have found myself in need of a one line command involving ‘find ./ | xargs’, however every now and then I run into an instance where the files I’m looking at have spaces in them. Anyone who … Continue reading

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Kudos to Walmart!

CNN just reported that Wal-Mart has decided to ditch the requirement that their employee’s cannot say “Merry Christmas”. One can only hope that other stores who have adopted such a policy will follow suite.. Wal-Mart has told its employees that … Continue reading

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Kubuntu 6.10

Kubuntu 6.10, also called Edgy Eft, has been officially released! Goto kubuntu.org for more details on how to download this great distribution, or update your dapper installation. If you are interested in playing with Linux, I highly recommend this as … Continue reading

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Kneel Before Zod

Generally I don’t worry about posting any more the release of a Linux distribution, as many other sites and blogs have got that covered. However, in some instances the release warrants a post, such as the following Fedora Core 6 … Continue reading

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Video: Meara and Her Balloons…

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Google Docs

I’m not sure whether it has already been announced or not, that Google is officially opening up it’s “Docs” service to closely tie with the recently updated “Spreadsheets“. One interesting feature they will have this this new service, is the … Continue reading

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Quote of the Day

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. – Ludwig Wittgenstein – Austrian philosopher (1889 – 1951)

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