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Today I spent a little more time cleaning out my home directory on my server. It was like an archaeological dig, unearthing stuff from five or six years ago. Ran across a bunch of old photos, including some of Tigger when he was a kitten; you can find those in The Tigger Gallery.

Yeah, so today I decided I'd spend some time troubleshooting the hibernate functionality on my HP tx1000 laptop, to find out why it doesn't consistently work. (it suspends and resumes fine, except that it will occasionally reboot instead of giving me back my desktop.)

Last night I accompanied Mike to a Toastmasters meeting; this one for the Exodus 4:10 Toastmasters club. Mike drove all the way down from PG to give an impromptu speech on digital photography while I recorded the speech with my digital camera. I even ended up participating in the Table Topics section of the meeting, where I was given a line and had about three seconds to come up with a 2-minute speech. I thought I did rather horribly, but apparently I underestimate myself.

Hmph, yesterday at work my laptop failed to boot. GRUB stopped while loading stage 2.

I most recently had this this weekend, while trying to install Gentoo from a Live CD. Something about the version of GRUB on the AMD64 version of the CD prevented it from installing correctly. I ended up abandoning Gentoo and reinstalling Debian.

Anyway, I've become fairly well versed on this problem as of late, but more important things were taking my attention, so I set aside my freshly-bricked notebook until this morning.

Mad Propz to Hugin. This thing makes stitching together multiple shots into a single panorama about as easy as falling over.

Recently, my camera (a Canon PowerShot S3 IS) began to exhibit some strange behaviour. Sometimes, while zooming, the camera would report "Lens error, restart camera" and then shut down. I began to think about a replacement.

Just a quick shout out to http://www.portableapps.com. I've recently installed the PortableApps launcher on my thumbdrive, and I'm finding that its much nicer than carrying my laptop around with me everywhere I go.

Granted, loading applications from a thumbdrive is slower, but that's the price I pay for being able to carry everything I need on a lanyard around my neck (and not looking like a dork while I'm at it.)