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Restart Ubuntu’s Unity Without Logging Out 13 Feb 2013 | 09:52 pm
Sometimes when you change a configuration in Unity that is based on configuration files, you need to force Unity to reload. In most guides that I’ve found, the recommendation is to simply log out and ...
My Six Month Personal Fitness Results 14 Jul 2012 | 09:32 am
I’ve been overweight most of my life. I experienced many years of depression that started in elementary school. From that moment until early 2012, I have consistently gained weight. In January, I dec...
My Six Month Personal Fitness Results 14 Jul 2012 | 09:32 am
I’ve been overweight most of my life. I experienced many years of depression that started in elementary school. From that moment until early 2012, I have consistently gained weight. In January, I dec...
Some Great AMVs from 2011 11 Jan 2012 | 01:45 pm
In celebration of my newly-operational Minitube, I thought I would share some great AMVs from 2011 that I found thanks to Minitube. Unfortunately, one of my favorite AMVs in a long time is no longer ...
Fix: Minitube Doesn’t Play Videos in Ubuntu 11 Jan 2012 | 01:27 pm
I’ve been a huge fan of Minitube. I use it nearly every work day to run interesting videos to give me a nice sound backdrop to work by. Mostly, I find myself playing AMVs, but I also enjoy just typing...
MikuMikuDance + Moymoy Palaboy = Awesome Video 15 Sep 2011 | 08:32 am
I haven’t posted a cool video in a while, and I really need to start again as I keep losing track of awesome videos. Someone took the Moymoy Palaboy (a Filipino duo that do awesome lipsync videos) gu...
Creating a PHP ICO Creator for Favicons 22 Jul 2011 | 03:15 am
For the past couple of weeks, I have worked on creating a PHP library to create ICO files. This has been difficult as all the documentation for the ICO format is either sparse or not completely docume...
Upgrade PHP 5.1/5.2 to 5.3 on CentOS 25 Jun 2011 | 12:25 pm
I’m finding that more and more software developers are being quite inconsiderate and are making code that requires PHP 5.3. Since many server-based and long-term support distros are still on PHP 5.2, ...
PHP 5.3 and “It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings” 25 Jun 2011 | 10:11 am
I just updated one of my CentOS systems to PHP 5.3 (a chore best reserved for another blog post), and started to see the following warning popping up: PHP Notice: in file index.php on line 15: date()...
View CSV Data from the Command Line 18 Jun 2011 | 02:49 am
I recently wrote a script to dump data into CSV files. The CSV files work well for using in other scripts, but they are a bit difficult to read in order to verify that the data looks good. Sure, I cou...
