39 posts from March 2008

Right now, according to the Vox I have "-1 private messages".

What does this MEAN?

ARGH.

Screenshot-Vox - Mozilla Firefox

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What do you bring most to a friendship?

obscure talents.

And cheese snacks.

Also- rhetoric.

(Anyone else miffed by this one?)

I was going to answer one of my reader-submitted question, about how to get along with jerks, but then I realized I'd only have two bullet points:

1. let them think you agree
2. Walk away if you fail to do #1

:D

I figured I'd give my women in religion a third post, because three is a holy number, before going back to gays and sex.

So here is my post about our assumptions.  Go thou, comment!

(I got up at five thirty, is it showing?  *lol*)

Later today I'll do free advice Friday.  And all of you who entered my "contest", I haven't forgotten!  Promise!  Someone will win!  Really!

I figured I'd give my women in religion a third post, because three is a holy number, before going back to gays and sex.

So here is my post about our assumptions.  Go thou, comment!

(I got up at five thirty, is it showing?  *lol*)

Later today I'll do free advice Friday.  And all of you who entered my "contest", I haven't forgotten!  Promise!  Someone will win!  Really!

If anyone receives the pop-up for XP online scanner- DO NOT INSTALL.

I clicked "cancel" and it still popped up the install prompt, I closed that and it refused to let me exit the page- I ended up just closing my browser.

If I actually ran XP on my computer, I may have thought for a millisecond about it- but I RUN UBUNTU.

This is a scam, peoples.  DO NOT INSTALL.

I realized when I got up this morning that there's a LOT more to be said, and perhaps even this post isn't enough.  The subject of women in religion and especially the American view of women in Islam is a very large thing.

In any case, I wrote another post.

Perhaps I'll do it again tomorrow.

A friend's post earlier today (ironically inspired by one of my posts) inspired a post about the subjugation of women in religion.

I hear a lot about the subjugation of women in Islam, which irks me because I was raised around a tradition that is just as hard- if not HARDER- for women to bear.  The Amish faith not only dresses their women in "modest" and restrictive garb, it greatly governs their ability to live their lives by cursing them to multiple pregnancies and forcing them to labor without to aids of electricity or motor vehicles.

Yet, you don't see the national guard fighting for Amish women's freedom, because people are willing to accept the nobility of their faith.

I think the greatest difference between Christianity and Islam is not in their rules but in the cultures that embrace them.  Islam is largely practiced in parts of the world that have traditionally always culturally subjugated women, and a lot of the wrongs placed on Islam would be better attributed to the culture, not the faith.

Children aren't the future.

They are the present.

That is all.

So my laptop comes yesterday.  The warranty is a thick little booklet- which I initially thought was the manual.

The manual was a single page.  It said, "attach battery.  Plug in, as battery may be low.  Turn on.  Enter data in configuration window."

Okay, so it said a LITTLE more than that, but that's all I needed.  I plugged it in, turned it on, told it what time zone I was in, my name and password, and in less than five minutes I was set.  AWESOME.

Oh, and everyone out there who doesn't know how cool Linux is- it's great.  We've never had a virus on our Linux OS, it never randomly freezes or crashes, the times there was a problem a patch has come out within twenty four hours, everything we need to know we can find in online forums.

And want an application?  Go to "Applications."  Scroll down to "Add/remove."  If you want to remove something, you click on "remove existing application."  You want to add something?  Do a search.  For example, there's this gem game I love.  So I search for "gem" in "games."  Five things come up, each rated on a scale.  I choose the highest rated.  It installs.

That's it.  It's THAT easy, I search for and install my game in three minutes, I don't even have to pay for it.

Linux is the stuff, people.

(Of course, I don't need specialized software suites, I primarily word process, I get it...  for my brother the computer programmer Windows is where it's at and for my friend the photographer Mac is where it's at but for me...  I love my Linux.)

A bit of humor:  my Laptop has gOS, which is "Google Operating System".  It's more or less Ubuntu, as it's Ubuntu based.  It just also has Google widgets and Google calender, etc, built in. (screen shots here).  When I googled it originally the text said "gOS- discover a good operating system" so I momentarily thought that it stood for good operating system, since Linux guys like to give their things ridiculous names.  Like, GNU stands for "GNU Not Unix."  Yep, the name is in the acronym of the name.  There are others, I just can't think of them right now.

You can buy laptops running gOS off of Wal-Mart's website.  There are amusing user reviews saying "gOS ISN'T WINDOWS!  THIS IS A LINUX PC!"

OMGWTFBBQ!  Do they not READ?

Oddly enough, the buyers on NewEgg seemed to know what they were getting.

That's all for today.