If Spider Oak wasn't a great enough company to begin with, they just got better in my book as they offer a discount for anyone with a dot edu e-mail address, which I happen to have just a few of those I can use.

Rex Rammell said he would buy hunting tags to hunt President Obama.
I think I'll head over to the Idaho Democratic Party and donate $10.

As with any comments about a movie, I'd suggest reading them after you have seen the movie.

I watched Ponyo last night with Jamie. It was enjoyable. I don't think it was Howl's moving castle or Princess Monanoke, but good. Jamie enjoyed it way more than I, something that is in her nature. The movie did seem short compared to his other films. The animation was also strange by just a bit. It looked to simplistic or old in quality to be a movie made today. The english voice over cast was good and only once I noticed where the english dub didn't work well.

I have my LPE schedule for the 8th. I have 7 days to learn 2 years of spanish.

When I told Jamie I was not going to stay at the University if I did not pass the LPE and said I would return to Metro she changed the subject. I asked her about it and she doesn't want me to leave the U of M. While I'd be happy to comply, I think due to the reality of life I'd be better at metro.

Go Visit:

http://deathpanels.org/

Last night was nothing too exciting. I worked and provided a chauffeur service to the parents from the airport to home.
I received some chocolate and a Haight-Ashbury shirt for my troubles. On my way to Jamie's I found a Blackberry 8320 in the bathroom at a gas station. We basically went to sleep as she was tired from the car trip.

On Thursday, I went car shopping with Niqi and we tried to find a car on a lot for under 10k. I really pushed all wheel drive since she has never driven in snow. We then happened to be near the vegetarian Indian restaurant on central. We ordered the chef's special which was a ridiculous amount of food.

Friday I worked at night and I really didn't get moving until well after my phone interview. I think it went well. I hope they call me back for an in person interview this week. I then ran three miles around wood lake. I noticed the Richfield lake behind the post office. I thought I'd give that a try today. It is a good day to job, not so warm, not so much sun.

I need to not sit in front of the computer and get stuff done. I have one goal before school starts, I must have the entire apartment clean before it starts. That means every last place, not just picked up like I normally have it.

Convert your files with Image Magick [via ofzenandcomputing]

Alright, the moment of truth has arrived. Your command prompt has you staring at a directory full of JPEGs that should be PNG files. Type:
mogrify -format png *.jpg

Press the Enter key, and Image Magick goes to work. In a few momemts, when a new command prompt appears, you will have PNG copies of your JPEG files.

I started with the Ubuntu wiki and had a few choices for a MCE remote in the setup of lirc.
It is juust has a HP logo at the bottom and an RC6ir lable on the back.

The steps I followed [Via sidrit's wordpress blog]:


First, we’re going to need to install lirc to get our remote to interact with the computer over infrared.

sudo apt-get install lirc

During the setup you will be prompted with a few configuration choices.
The first choice is the remote- On the list make sure you pick “Windows Media Center Remotes ( new version Philips et al. )”.
On the second prompt pick “None”.

After the installation finishes, plug in the infrared device and start the Lirc service:

sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart

To test weather everything works correctly , on the terminal type:

irw

then after pressing any button on the remote you should see the output , altogether with the name of the key you pressed.

"Wait. You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?" Clinton asked in response. "My husband is not the secretary of state; I am. So you ask my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I'm not going to be channeling my husband." [via AP]

So I took a drive out of a dead computer and the drive works fine. Before returning it to the owner I wanted to scan it with anti virus software and clamwin gave me several errors because all the files are under the ownership of the old XP computer with some user name I don't have. Sure you can use the fourteen steps to each file on the drive or you can use the power of a command line. Some dude over at his site wants you to register for the windows shell script, so I figured I'd post the code here. It works recursively so you just paste the code below into a notepad window save it as opensaysme.cmd and then run "opensaysme e:\" to change all the files in the attached drive back to something your computer can read. His article was named "Easier Way to Take Ownership and Grant Access Files or Directories in Vista", I hope adding that to my post will have search engines raise my entry above his at some point. I've even added a flag that will add ownership to the administrators group, I'm hoping this means these commands will not have to be ran once my friend gets his drive in the mail assuming he is in the administrators group.

CODE:
takeown /f %1 /r /a /d y
icacls %1 /grant administrators:F /t

President Obama and Germany’s Chancellor Merkel have both been just a teensy bit hypocritical in their support of the Iranian people. While they’ve voiced that support, they are also actively supporting the Western corporations supplying censorware and weaponry to Iran - and other human rights violators.

[ Read full article @ MediaChannel ]

Pickles and food left by Steve. Guess i'm eating out.