Williamo’s Blog.

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.

(via garfield minus garfield)

Billboard Liberation Front vs. ATT + NSA - Boing Boing

The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designed to promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these two global communications giants.

You might be keeping yourself somewhat detached from the people who care about you most right now — are you sure you’re not pushing them away? Right now it’s important that you connect with others, not disconnect. Look into this today. Ask one or two friends if they feel you’re closed off or aloof. Pick their brain for ideas on how you can open yourself up a bit more. It’s about time that you trusted in others enough to show them who you really are.

Today’s Astrological Energy Levels

	Relationships
	Personal
	Work/Finance

NEUBERGER HALL IS REOPENING AT 5:30 P.M. FACULTY AND STAFF WITH IDENTIFICATION WILL BE ALLOWED IN THE SOUTH ENTRANCE OF THE BUILDING FIRST. ALL REMAINING ENTRANCES WILL BE OPENED BY CAMPUS PUBLIC SAFETY SHORTLY THEREAFTER. CLASSES BEGINNING AFTER 5:30 P.M. WILL BE HELD AS SCHEDULED. (UPDATED 5:05 P.M.)

http://www.pdx.edu

Neuberger Hall Evacuation - Monday Feb 25

An evacuation is underway at Neuberger Hall effective immediately. All persons should immediately leave and not re-enter the building. The building is temporarily closed.

Please see PSU’s web site for further information and updates.

http://www.pdx.edu

resting Sojuman, originally uploaded by superlocal.

When your bottle of alcohol falls over, you know things are rough.

Daily Horoscope: Capricorn - InfoSpace

Are you running the risk of getting too big for your britches? Just in case, you should give yourself a reality check today — before someone else does! Make an effort to get more grounded. Spend time with people who live a different lifestyle. Get a glimpse of what their biggest issues, goals, and concerns are. Just having a short conversation with a stranger at the grocery store will wake you up to the reality of your situation — and make you much more grateful for what you have.

Feature: Seamlessly Run Linux Apps on Your Windows Desktop

There’s no doubt that Linux—particularly Ubuntu—is a killer operating system full of excellent apps, but for about a million reasons, you’re stuck running Windows as your main operating system. We understand, these things happen. But what about all those killer Linux apps you’ve left behind when you decided to live the Windows life? Sure you could dual-boot or run Linux in the confines of a virtual machine window, but wouldn’t it be great if you could run those apps side-by-side with your Windows apps—like Linux users can do with WINE or OS X can do with Parallels or VMWare? You can, and today I’ll show you how to seamlessly run your favorite Linux applications directly in Windows with a free software called andLinux.

What Is andLinux?

andLinux is actually a full installation of Ubuntu Linux running on top of your Windows operating system. Similar to how you can run coherence mode in Parallels or unity mode in VMWare Fusion, andLinux takes your Linux apps out of the virtual machine and creates a seamless interface in which they co-mingle with all your Windows apps. Kinky, huh?

Be positive, originally uploaded by José Miguel Serrano.

Thanks again to the fine programmers at Microsoft for delivering such a speed-enhancing fix to Visual Studio 2008!

IMG_1992 (HSL), originally uploaded by William WM.

web2dna - (jdanger.wordpress.com), originally uploaded by William WM.

web2dna - (tumblr.wolffmyren.com), originally uploaded by William WM.

web2dna - (blog.wolffmyren.com), originally uploaded by William WM.

OLPC-XO1 (13), originally uploaded by William WM.

Our office’s OLPC XO-1:

“The XO-1, previously known as the $100 Laptop or Children’s Machine, is an inexpensive laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world,[1] to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to “explore, experiment and express themselves” (constructionist learning).[2] The laptop is developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) social welfare organization, and manufactured by the Taiwanese computer company, Quanta.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-1

From Tombuntu.com:

Heard about the new Firefox 3 Beta 3 and want to try it out in Ubuntu? Here’s a one line command that will install it in Ubuntu (or anther distro) alongside your existing Firefox.The command does two things: it downloads Firefox to your home directory using wget, and extracts the Firefox folder there. Copy and paste the command (it’s one line) and run it in your terminal:

wget -P ~ ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b3/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.0b3.tar.bz2 && tar xjf ~/firefox-3.0b3.tar.bz2 -C ~

(I’m sure that will split into multiple lines because of the spacing on my blog, so it might be worth it to check out the original post if copy/paste doesn’t work for you).

I tried it on my Ubuntu 7.10 box and it works great. Honestly, I like the way Firefox 3 looks on Linux waaaaaaay better than it looks on Windows XP. The XP toolbar icons look bubbly and kinda stupid, which is the same reason I switched away from the Luna theme almost immediately after Windows XP came out. Sure, I understand that the vast majority of Windows XP users still use the Luna theme, and I’m sure it looks good with that, but bleh. At least there are toolbar themes.

Aside from that little rant about the toolbar buttons, FF3B3 works very well, and *looks* solid enough to be a release now, but I’m glad they’re taking the time to put it through it’s paces. I’m really interested in the fixes to the memory leaks. =)