I just got the new HP C5180 all-in-one printer I needed to apply for my passport. It works perfectly in Linux -- I just plugged it into the network via ethernet, set up CUPS, and got a perfect result.
very recommended.

Smoking a pipe is a bit of an art form. When you can have a good smoke, its one of life's sublime, meditative pleasures. When you have a bad smoke, its an exercise in masochism that puts you off your pipe for months.

Recently, due to lack of a place where I could buy pipe-cleaners, my pipe had become clogged with tar, which was totally ruining the whole proposition -- but recently Ive found a method to clean it decently, and tonight I had a wonderful half-bowl that really elevated the evening.

1. Wait until the pipe is cool and disassemble it, wiping out the remains with a tissue.
2. Draw a thimble of dark rum (I hear scotch will also do), and grab a couple q-tips.
3. Dip the clean cotton end in the rum and swab the inside of the bowl and stem. The alcohol should act as a solvent to clean out the tar, but leave the desirable layer of carbon (cake) intact.
4. When the pipe is clean (about 3 q-tips), turn the pipe upside down an let the flame of your match dry the inside out. This should also carbonize the sugars in the rum to add to the clean layer of cake.
5. Rinse out your mouth with the remaining rum. After all, those same tars are left in your mouth as well.

Leonardo DiCaprio has apparently made a new environmental film in the spirit of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, and as in the case of the latter, it seems some people have taken to dismissing the entire content of the film based on perceived hypocrisy of the film maker.

How did this happen in western thought, that if a person who makes a point is not a spotless example of that point, then it must naturally follow that his message is worthless? I see it used in arguments all the time. Maybe someone can explain it to me.

Because DiCaprio flew to Cannes in a gas-guzzling aeroplane (as opposed to the trans-atlantic train), he is a hypocrite and his message can be comfortably ignored as we all make our way home from the movie theatre speeding down the highway in our SUVs, content in the knowledge that the existence of hypocrisy must naturally cause the laws of physics to alter itself in such a way that the burning of fossil fuels no longer causes pollutants to rise into the air and threaten the very existence of our civilization -- perhaps even our species.

Or maybe its because if DiCaprio doesn't care about our world enough to find a non-aero based method of transport across the Atlantic, we are all relieved of our own duty to care about our world, and we can face the destruction of human society with the true solidarity of the apathetic?

If you are a programmer spending any time at all working on gnu/linux -- beginner or intermediate, this book is highly recommended. Even if you think you know it all already from skimming the table of contents, there are enough gems in this book to make it worth while to anyone short of master.

For me, pinfo libc was worth the price of admission.

I seem to have left my thinking-cap at home.

Now if only I could find a way to make my cat stop peeing on the toilet.

What do you see when you look out your window?

Frist psot!