Monthly Archive: June 2008

Jun 17 2008

openSUSE 11.0 starts to trickle out

The online repository for openSUSE 11.0 is now available so there are a few ways you can get hold of the goodness: Firstly, if you’ve been using the betas and then the release candidates, simply change your various repositories to point at the 11.0 final versions. Do the same for any Build Service repositories you …

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Jun 16 2008

Team PokerStars starting to dominate 2008 WSOP

A mere three days after Daniel Negreanu won the $2,000 Limit Hold’em, his fellow Team PokerStars Pro Barry Greenstein has won the $1,500 Razz event. This event was won by another member of Team PokerStars, Katja Thater, last year. Elsewhere, Daniel Negreanu is the chip-leader in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys event which is …

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Jun 15 2008

War Criminal to make state visit to UK (2)

[Ref] Peaceful demonstration against this visit banned. Thankfully my MP, Chris Huhne, has spoken out against the ban in his capacity as the Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary. I’m very glad to read that the march is planned to go ahead anyway, peacefully and in defiance of this deplorable ban and I only wish I …

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Jun 15 2008

War Criminal to make state visit to UK

BBC News coverage Mentioned in the Independent Top story in the Guardian Elsewhere, Mugabe threatens to go to war with the MDC. Nothing other than a clear MDC victory in the election run-off will be credible.

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Jun 13 2008

Gold!

Gold is the colour of the day. Things that are gold this morning: openSUSE 11.0 is Gold!That’s right, the culmination of many months work by the various teams, employees and volunteers that comprise the openSUSE project has resulted in the GoldMaster (GM). So, there really are only six days to go. Daniel Negreanu’s fourth WSOP …

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Jun 11 2008

Fetch me a cane and some Vicodin

[Ref] Over the last few months, I have been seen limping from time to time and I now have a fairly definitive answer as to why, thanks to a Podiatrist I saw today. I have what is known as a Tailor’s bunion and am being referred to the local Bio-Mechanics team to try to figure …

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Jun 11 2008

Question

Question: How dumb do you have to be to mow the lawn when you have a significant pollen allergy and have run out of your tablets for it? This dumb:

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Jun 10 2008

Whoops

Apologies to Kevin and Jakub for getting their blogs mixed up on Planet SUSE. Fixed now.

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Jun 09 2008

That’s a lot!

Planet SUSE now has 150 feeds! At this rate, I may have to increase the number of stories shown…

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Jun 09 2008

Sermon: James 4.1-12 – Supplication

Recorded yesterday at St Paul’s. 22 minutes long. Available as Ogg Vorbis or MP3: PDF of accompanying presentation.

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