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Archive for November 2005

Exhibits A and B

Having all 40,000 of my photos unified and tagged in a single scrolled window has been so wonderful. Occasionally I run across a nice gem in there. Like these comparison shots of Miguel and Laura’s marital fridge and my own refrigerator.

See if you can guess which is which.


Exhibit A


Exhibit B

28 November 2005

OpenOffice startup time

Michael Meeks is too modest and cautious to blog about how he found a way to cut OpenOffice warm startup time in half.

3 November 2005

Teen Sex and the Linux Desktop

“The [Linux desktop] has become a lot like teenage sex,” Matthew Szulik, Red Hat CEO, said recently. “A lot of people are talking about it but not many people are doing it.”

On September 15th The National Center for Health Statistics published a report with some handy graphs illustrating the incidence of sexual intercourse among teenaged Americans.

 

These graphs report that by age 19, 69% of American males and 77% of American females have had sexual intercourse. In fact, by age 17, about half of all teenagers have taken a ride on the wild elmo.

So, I don’t know if Matthew has teenaged children or not, but if he does, I hope he’s paying more attention to his Linux teams!

2 November 2005

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