Merry Christmas, ya scurvy dogs!

mixtapes

Yeah so I hear that people got the CDs, but I totally forgot track listings. Here's the artist/track. If you want the album they are from, drop me an email. Or check wikipedia maybe.

October:
Germs - The Other Newest One
Daft Punk - Human After All
Jets to Brazil - Conrad
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
Sarah Mclachlan - Possession
Tagada Jones - Combien de Temps
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Tom Waits - The Pontiac
Superdrag - Señorita

November:
Los Straitjackets - Midnight in Salerno
Prodigyremixed.com - Action Radar (FakeID Mix)
The Airborne Toxic Event - Missy
Okkervil River - A Girl in Port
Cracker - Truckload of Art
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor
Colin Hay - Overkill
Lifetime - Ostichsized
The Sports Inferno - MSU Rant

Hope you enjoyed! If you didn't get one and you want one, let me know.

Merry Christmas!

kubuntu 8.10

I liked KDE on my ubuntu setup, but I decided it was time to upgrade. I did my media machine first, since I really only had to back up movies, and then I did a clean install. KDE 4.1 took a little getting used to (some different paradigms in effect here), but once I figured out what was going on, I loved it. I upgraded the main machine today. It looks great, and seems to be really usable and customizable to my preferences. My preferences basically being the defaults, this was easy.

In short, a couple a snowstorms shutting me into my apartment resulted in me updating the linux on two machines, organizing photos, making backups, and finishing reading "Ender's Game".

It's pretty geeky no matter how you look at it.

networking

My network connection has dropped out twice tonight while uploading pictures. Yeah, it's a lot of data, but still, this is ridiculous. I'm not even really sure what is going wring; my networking skills are weak at best. My router did need an update, but when I tried that (after pausing everything else), it was taking forever, so I killed it. It's firmware, not a new OS.

I need more skills. Girls like guys with skills.

I just want to put vacation photos on the web!

San Francisco Photos

I got back from a kick-ass San Francisco vacation the other day, and I am uploading photos now. I am going with picasa first, and then facebook, since I want to a) share with non-facebook people, and b) it's an export option in digiKam. My main issue so far seems to be that it is taking forever to upload the first (huge) batch of photos, and I think I know why. Apparently, picasa is resizing my photos to 1200x1600, and I am uploading full-size, so I am wasting bandwidth. This max-size would have been nice to know beforehand! Facebook apparently has a max dimension of 640. That I am going to resize first. Neither were up-front or clear about this; hell, picasa still shows the original uploaded size.

This would have been nice to know first.

UPDATE: Picasa allows the full size, but you have to go with the "Download" menu to get it. I was going to delete this little rant, but since I couldn't find much on the image size issue on the web, people can learn from my mistakes.