Being the thoughts and writings of one Gustaf Erikson; father, homeowner, technologist.
I watched this yesterday and was impressed. It’s the first anime film I’ve watched, so it’s hard to compare with others, but the quality of the animation was top-notch. A welcome change from Disney fare.
More importantly, the plot was faithful to LeGuin’s vision, if not her actual novels. It’s basically The Farthest Shore conflated with Tehanu, with elements of A Wizard of Earthsea thrown in, but the universe is recognisable, and the characters look like you’d expect them to.
The magic is Earthsea magic, not flashy, but powerful — no death rays, no blasting spells a la computer RPGs, rather tapping into the underlying structure of the world. It’s hard to explain, but it’s one of the things that make LeGuin’s fantasy world so much better than others.
This movie is highly recommended.
I’ve been using Ubuntu 7.10 on a Latitude D505 for a while now, and I’ve always been disappointed with the screen resolution. The max I could get was 1280x1024, while the native resolution is 1400x1050.
I recently had to reconfigure X on this machine (dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xorg) and chose the intel driver (recommended by the
configure script). However, it turns out that this driver hangs the
machine when you close the lid. The older driver i810 works in this
regard, but the max resolution is too low.
The solution is to use the 915resolution application. This does some weird hacking of the video BIOS to allow Linux to use the full resolution.
Using it in Ubuntu is a breeze. Simply install the .deb package and
reboot.
Vi får välja mellan brevhemlighet och lagen mot fildelning, mellan skydd för den personliga sfären och upphovsrättsorganisationernas möjlighet att ta betalt på samma sätt som hittills.
Det är inte ett särskilt svårt val. Affärsmodeller kan komma och gå. Men ger vi upp rätten till våra privata liv ger vi också upp rätten till oss själva.
Kalle Lind kommenterar ett gammalt utskällt teveprogram:
Men dom fem tevetimmar som gjordes satte ett rejält avtryck i sin tid och påminde en självrättfärdig befolkning att dom var jävligt förskonade från riktiga problem. Att ta sej tid att leta upp papper och kuvert, köpa frimärken och hitta en postlåda för att gnälla på att Beppe Wolgers pratar och äter korv samtidigt, får betraktas som ett utfall av för mycket tid och för få bekymmer.
Just capsules.
I’ve read the entire series multiple times, but haven’t written reviews for all the novels. If you want more information, check out the Patrick O’Brian wiki.
The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won’t name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another “me too” blog post.
OMG this is such an awesome post!!11!! I so totally agree with it!! It deserves to be Dugg sooo much!!!
(Hat tip Rui.)
I firmly believe that posting a reply to an email at the end of a message rather than at the beginning. This is especially important in mailing lists.
I’ve recently re-joined The Gunroom, a mailing list with a pretty high traffic volume. I want to be a good lissun and have been diligently paging down to the end of messages, snipping as I went.
I recently found a Greasemonkey script that automates the scrolling down, setting the editing caret at the end of the message instead of at the top.
The script can be found here for the new Gmail interface. It’s based on this script for the old interface.
Here’s how to enable this feature.
Another script that might be interesting for traditionalists is Gmail Fixed Font.
I’m re-reading Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series for the umpteenth time. There are some passages that warrant more investigation. I’m sorta-kinda-hoping planning to write some posts about them in the future.
Update 2008-01-06: I’ll be posting links related to O’Brian in my del.icio.us feed marked with the tag “POB”.