Author: Karel Kerezman

  • KDE 3.0.1 partial success

    After hours and hours and hours of satisfying prerequisites and debugging compile errors, KDE 3.0.1 is sort-of installed on my Linux workstation at the office.

    I’ll wait a while before tackling the rest of it. The base package took over an hour to compile, and I’d like to enjoy the use of my computer for a while before starting another huge session like that one.

    If I had anything else of interest to post today, I would. Sorry. It was a Monday at the office, which means lots of small tedious uninteresting jobs that I won’t bore you with the telling of.

  • NeoPlanet skin sounds

    I’m a bit embarassed by this: A few years ago I created a skin for the NeoPlanet “browser.” As proud as I am of the skin itself, NeoPlanet proved to be a bloated, buggy bit of fluff attached to a browser I have grown to despise. (That would be Internet Exploder.) Oddly enough, a fair number of people who use NeoPlanet liked my TenchiNeo skin, enough so that it continues to generate email to my Europa account.

    In the original description for the skin, I directed visitors to my website at Europa for some additional sounds. I’ve neglected to post that sound package here on the new website until now. I’m sorry about that, folks.

    NeoPlanet Anime Skins

  • For that creepy Hello Kitty fan you know

    I try to avoid relying on Slashdot for too much of my material, but this particular link is just too good to be true.

    The Pink Hello Kitty Laptop.

    The story of how the PHKL came to be is almost more amusing than the device’s existence. Note that this is the functional equivalent of a coffee-table book: Meant to start conversations, not to actually provide any sort of intrinsic value.

    Slashdot Case Mod Roundup

  • A pleasant day off

    Sleeping in. Waking up at my own pace. Breakfast at the Original Hot Cake & Steak House. Going shopping at WinCo with the Wendi and the Palm m105. Buying the Harry Potter DVD. Playing 4×4 Evolution. Puttering around on the Internet.

    That’s my day so far, and I’m sticking to it. Oh, and Wendi really admired the shopping list software’s usefulness at the store. You can stop snickering now.

  • Gone Domestic

    How to prove that a die-hard geek has turned into a devoted family man: Look at his Palm Pilot and see a grocery-list program installed.

    We’re going to try out HandyShopper to see if it makes our grocery trips a little less chaotic. I’m sure Wendi is rolling her eyes at the prospect of using geek toys at the store, but I figure it beats spending a lot of time asking ourselves, “Now what is it we’re forgetting?”

  • Restroom Conversations

    Maybe it’s an urban legend, maybe it’s just a joke, and maybe you’ve seen it before. Any way you look at it, though, it’s funny. (Thank you, Snappy the Clam.)
    You’ve probably heard this…