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Monthly Archives: December 2008

The Years All Askew, The Year In Review

21-Dec-08

It’s been a big year. Of course, it’s not over yet but I’m already anticipating the year to come. I’ll be back in school after my out of school “experiment”. Whether or not it was successful or not is a difficult question. I have a better take on the pros and cons of being in [...]

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ArchLinux64 on the X200: A Field Report

10-Dec-08

As I mentioned before, I have been hankering for a nice, shiny new ultraportable for almost a year and Christmas came early in 2008. I settled on a Lenovo Thinkpad X200 (formerly IBM) for a number of reasons. 1) It has a dock. I really wanted something with a dock since I’ll be commuting with [...]

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Wandering Flame

07-Dec-08

It’s official. I’m not dead. I mean, 4 weeks without posting? I’m pretty sure that’s a personal record. A variety of things have been going on, mostly positive. I spent Thanksgiving meeting the parents of my girlfriend (you know, Teresa?) in Virginia. We had volunteered to cook while we were up which went smoothly, to [...]

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