This is a big “Thank You” to ASUStek computer company.
Last Thursday, on the way to buy another external HD, I was showing a SQL programmer Ubuntu and during the process, my disk drive tray was used and pushed back in. I didn’t notice anything at the time, but later, I couldn’t get it to open [...]

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Now I am getting closer to producing the book, I have to try to find the most environmentally friendly CD production process. All CDs and DVDs are made of virgin plastic because recycled plastic always has too much risk of impurities. Any impurity in the disk plastic will result in the laser skipping over that [...]

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It is finally spring in Vancouver and May is the time for the Children’s Festival 2008.

Paul Plimley and I played on Monday as part of the Sonic Playground tent experience.

Our show is called, “Discovering Magic in Sound”.

This is my vocal and set-up and Paul’s MIDI guitar brain and Apple G4.
Tech notes: Apple G4Powerbook running Logic [...]

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A friend sent me this link and I have to consider that the scientists may have a point. We know that the world was very much warmer climatically during the era of the dinosaurs and very much colder during ice ages, without any human intervention.
http://www.rense.com/general79/d3m.htm
However, at this point in my life, I have to [...]

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The Live More Lightly Songbook and Workshop Guide by Victoria Gibson
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at livemorelightly.com/creative-commons-license.

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Yesterday I found that my  Word Press anti-spam filter, Akismet,  had classified a comment made in German as Spam. I apologize to any one who has made a legitimate comment and had it deleted as I did not realize that would happen. The rest of the comments were spam and contained gibberish, ads and strange [...]

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One of my sons asked this question when I was first installing Ubuntu on my notebook. I told him that I wanted it to work even better than it already did. Vista was working perfectly, but I wanted to have the choice of running Ubuntu.
I felt that the previous system was great. I had the [...]

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The Free Geek workshop had to be entered through the rear door after hours, but I had contacted them finally through IRC chat. Of course, I should have known … to be fair, they did call me back after I left a message on their new phone system. Windows Free Wednesday is a time [...]

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