Archive for May, 2007
Looks like it was a driver issue
by Bart on May.29, 2007, under Blog
Linux fans didn’t exactly get the publicity they were hoping for at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, when the so-called “Linux car” they had sponsored proved to be the first in the race to crash, ultimately causing it to finish dead last. The car was the result of the Tux 500 campaign, which raised enough money to put the familiar Tux mascot front and center on Chastain Motorsports’ #77 car in the hope that it’d raise the profile of the OS. Faring considerably better in the publicity department was Joost, which sponsored the car that wound up finishing a respectable seventh. Maybe next time the Linux folks should work on making the whole car open source.
Carry your Cursor
by Bart on May.26, 2007, under Media
Warning: Yes, if you click on the picture you will see a 3mb Shockwave file of Asian men carrying a large cursor while you move your mouse around. Be sure you’re prepared for that.
JonBart.com Changes. No one notices!
by Bart on May.25, 2007, under Blog
I am now using for my theme…
Redoable 1.2
This theme is based on the brilliant K2 for Wordpress, and Tyler Longren’s Unwakeable. It has support for over a dozen awesome plugins built in, and a range of sidebar modules/widget should you wish to use them. Visit the Redoable homepage for further information.
Also employing some new plugins, such as:
- Ankur Kothari’s brilliant Gregarious Plugin for Redoable.
- Christine Davis’s brilliant Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin for Redoable.
- Widgets, Live Search, Lightbox(if I can make it work right), Digg icons if story is Dugg, and more!
I’m very happy with the new theme. I wasn’t actually a fan of the river theme I used before, but used it because everyone else liked it. This theme is more my style, and has double the buttons I’m actually displaying on this site right now. So customizable.
Leave a comment and let me know what you think. By the way… for those of you not familiar with Wordpress setups… All you gotta do is ask.
Bart’s Deal of the Week
by Bart on May.22, 2007, under Tech Deals
Buy.com has the LaCie 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive Designed By F.A. Porsche for $119 w/ free budget shipping.
This is the cheapest I’ve seen a 500 gig external drive without a rebate, so buy fast if you’re going to get one.
Online Desktop
by Bart on May.22, 2007, under Technology
I’ve been using Google Docs & Spreadsheets for some time now. And… I really like it. I think it’s the future, but not necessarily the now (Office 2007 is flat-out awesome).
But wait…. An online solution that wants to compete with Google Docs? And they’re free? And they have more features than Google? No way!
Check it out:
The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century
by Bart on May.22, 2007, under Blog
On the morning of August 22, 1986, a man hopped onto his bicycle and began riding from Wum, a village in Cameroon, towards the village of Nyos. On the way he noticed an antelope lying dead next to the road. Why let it go to waste? The man tied the antelope onto his bicycle and continued on. A short distance later he noticed two dead rats, and further on, a dead dog and other dead animals. He wondered if they’d all been killed by a lightening strike – when lightening hits the ground it’s not unusual for animals nearby to be killed by the shock.
Soon the man came upon a group of huts. He decided to see if anyone there knew what had happened to the animals. But as he walked up to the huts he was stunned to see dead bodies strewn everywhere. He didn’t find a single person still alive—everyone in the huts was dead. The man threw down his bicycle and ran all the way back to Wum…
