http://www.rickpetersen.net Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:30:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I’m not gonna lie… I read some of what most of my friends would consider ridiculous blogs… most of my ridiculous blogs are either far-right leaning political blogs that I tend to agree with for the most part, or they’re far-left (when politics are discussed) leaning vegan/vegetarian blogs that ... http://www.rickpetersen.net/2007/10/26/superbugs-zomg/ This site is AMAZING.  In some ways I’m sorta cautious because I can’t see how some of it is legal.  In other ways, this is an amazing service and if it IS legal, then… I mean, they’re not trying to hide it at all.  Anyway, search for any book you ... http://www.rickpetersen.net/2007/03/07/scribd/ Try as they might, American General was never able to discover how to become useful by ’surfing the internet’. I guess I should clarify further…. this was a comment left on this site, but caught by my spam filters: http://www.rickpetersen.net/2007/03/02/not-useful/ Okay, this is not where I list my favorite apps.. this is where I am looking for YOUR favorites. I just did an install of Debian Sarge 2.6kernel with Gnome as the desktop.  I prefer KDE but I am an idiot, and for the moment, Gnome is what is there… I’ll ... http://www.rickpetersen.net/2007/02/28/top-5-non-default-linux-apps/ This recipe is originally derived from Linda Evans’ Best Ever Vegan Lasagna. I don’t have a link for that, but I found it somewhere online.. or maybe Shaina did. Regardless, I modified it both for preference and necessity. We enjoyed this immensely, both upon first serving and ... http://www.rickpetersen.net/2007/02/26/vegan-lasagna/ I don’t know much about Habari… I use Wordpress… like most other blogging softwares, I’ll take a look at it eventually I’m sure… but I’m sick sick sick sick of people being original and different…. just like EVERYONE else. Habari is the Swahili word for News. Ubuntu is a word ... http://www.rickpetersen.net/2007/02/20/habari/ We just got done watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith which we are the proud owners of on VHS (yay)… It’s a cute enough movie, they’re hit-people, trying to kill each other, yadda yadda yadda.  So, that’s not why I love my wife.  My wife has a cold right now, which ... http://www.rickpetersen.net/2007/02/18/why-i-love-my-wife/ I am not OVERLY shocked about this, but at the same time, I do find it interesting that SharpDevelop actually creates a smaller compiled binary than VS.NET does from the same code. I decided to compile a Win32 app I had written a while back for my company in SharpDevelop just ... http://www.rickpetersen.net/2007/02/16/sharpdevelop-creates-smaller-binaries/ So, my freetime project that I’ve decided to take on is: Setting up a start-to-finish ALL Linux ALL OpenSource .NET development station.  This will include several things. A Case/UML tool for modeling mono-based .NET projects. MonoDevelop - a customization of SharpDevelop for compiling bit code to run on Mono rather than the .NET ... http://www.rickpetersen.net/2007/02/16/my-next-project/ Andrew Hill who is a never-ending source of topics for me has inquired as to why exactly I have a policy of not eating things that once had a heartbeat/were living but now are not. That’s my way of expressing vegetarianism as I understand and embrace it. Information There are many ... http://www.rickpetersen.net/2007/02/15/why-i-dont-eat-deceased-things/