Happy Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Beta 2 everyone! I’ve been an Xfce user since 2004, this post from last year documents my UI adventures. It’s been my Desktop Environment of choice for my whole professional career as a systems administrator and I’m very set in my ways configuration-wise at work. These days I help […]
Archive for March, 2012
Philadelphia Wedding Venue Trip
March 29th, 2012 by pleia2
Our trip to Philadelphia went by far too quickly. We had 6 wedding venue visits scheduled, ended up with 8 by the time we had finished collecting and reviewing recommendations from friends and family. I am really happy with what we ended up seeing, and upon browsing through a local weddings magazine we were given […]
Dyslexia
March 29th, 2012 by pleia2
I couldn’t read until I was 8 years old. Over the years, the number of people I admitted that to has been very low and it wasn’t until recently that I realized I was hiding it because it was an intense such a source of shame. My decision to start talking about it came in […]
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Pangolins, parrots, Partimus, Philadelphia
March 20th, 2012 by pleia2
These past few weeks could only really be characterized as normal, no big events or anything lately. I have been struggling with an ear ache this month and working with a doctor to treat it. The issue is fluid buildup in my sinuses and the treatment is allergy medication until it stops. As of now […]
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Lenovo G575
March 12th, 2012 by pleia2
Back in 2008, on the tail end of a particularly rough year, a few of my friends got together and bought me the pink mini9. It was the first new portable computer I’d ever owned. That little mini9 is still chugging along and the only thing that doesn’t work anymore is the speakers (the wires […]