Israel has been bombarding Gaza for the last three days or so (BBC News report). In the news, it is always being described as targeting the “Militant group Hamas”. Now, imagine for a moment if the BBC and other news outlets were to describe it in a different and entirely accurate manner: Israeli air raids …
Monthly Archive: December 2008
Dec
29
2008
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Dec
25
2008
Sermon: Luke 2.1-20 – Babies Grow Up
Recorded last night at St Leonard’s. 14 minutes long. Available as Ogg Vorbis or MP3: No presentation this time, lines of sight at St Leonard’s mean that we can’t use the screen at the big services like Midnight.
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Dec
24
2008
Happy Incarnation-tide
This is just to wish a Happy and blessed celebration of the Incarnation of our Lord (also known as Christmas) to all my readers (via whatever service you choose to read this). As usual, I have not sent out cards, a practise I stopped following in my mid-teens. I hope the paper saved and the …
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Dec
16
2008
Soon and very soon…
11.1 DVDs have been pressed. What a Christmas present from the community to the community (and the world)! In other news, the updated python-xdg I’ve mentioned before is now in Factory and so once it gets to the head of the queue for building, it’ll be in my home repo for 11.1. Waiting for my …
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Dec
10
2008
That was some vulcan mind-meld mojo!
[Ref 1] [Ref 2] Last night, I commented to Amanda, “I wonder when my bio-mechanics appointment will come through”. This morning, it came in the post and, my friends, is some vulcan mind-meld mojo. So, “I wonder when someone’s going to post me a million pounds.” Oh and if you check the date on Ref …
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Dec
08
2008
Bliss for all around me
Woke up yesterday with basically no voice and it was in and out (mostly out) all day. At Peter’s request, I’m now taking a couple of days off to rest it ahead of Christmas (when I shall need it a lot). So, I’ve not said a word all day which must have been quite heavenly …
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Dec
05
2008
GNOME:Community for 11.1
openSUSE 11.1 moves ever closer and so I’ve enabled openSUSE_11.1 as a target repository for GNOME:Community. Nothing there yet but once packages build, it’ll be ready for its inclusion in the Community Repositories list in the released product.
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Dec
05
2008
Ho ho ho!
I must have been so bored… /* * hohoho.c – Really pointless and daft way of generating a festive message. * (c) 2008 James Ogley – http://jamesthevicar.com. * Licensed under GPLv2 – http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt. */ void main() { int i; for (i=1; i
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Dec
04
2008
MintMenu on openSUSE
Recently, Magnus asked for views on some Main Menu improvements. Among the responses were references to MintMenu (which is based on Ubuntu’s version). I’ve spent some time this week beating this into an openSUSE shape and have produced a rather large (265 lines) patch. Now, the code as supplied is a pain to work with. …
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Dec
04
2008
RPM help required and YaST/Zypper functionality separation
I’ve read docs, I’ve trawled through rpm –help and I’ve studied man pages but I can’t figure out how to do one simple thing and so I turn to the good people reading this to try to help me. Is there an easy way to just find out the name (and not the version) of …
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