Can’t Go Back

Yesterday while bringing the Christmas decorations in from the garage I stumbled upon my leather bomber jacket I bought way back when I was in college.

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Quincy

For some reason listening to jazz on sunny mornings makes me think of Quincy ME. Not that there’s anything wrong with Quincy. In fact, Quincy was one of my favorite shows growing up. Jack Klugman was awesome. I wouldn’t mind seeing a Quincy reboot.

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A Bunch of What If’s and a Revelation

Late last night while I was trying to get comfortable on the couch after being displaced from my bed by the kids my brain started running. That’s not that unusual. What if there were an application (we’ll call it a service from here on out) for your computer or server that allowed you to write…

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Chrome or Chromium

Ok so you have an Ubuntu machine, a netbook or maybe you got gutsy and installed it on an old piece of crap Dell like I did, but you got used to using Chrome on your Windows machine and Mac. Ok, well you can use Chromium, the open source version of Google’s Chrome or you…

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Easy LAMP on Ubuntu 10.04

Setting up Apache, MySQL and PHP with all their libraries on a fresh install of Linux can be a pain in the butt especially if you’re in a hurry or busy multitasking (read: keeping the carpet crawlers entertained). But if you want to get your own web server up and running in a matter of minutes…

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