Bearfruit

(as a follow-up to “How data affects wifi range”)

It’s also important to realize that if a country consumes more media on the Internet than it produces, the electrons will get shifted from the creating country to the consuming country.

Because electrons have a negative charge this will leave the creating country with a positive charge and the consuming country with a negative charge. In effect, “polarizing the nations.” This was actually discussed in ancient biblical prophecy and is a sign that the battle of Armageddon and the end of the world is near.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David McLaughlin wrote:
> I’ve had much better luck with range by placing the router as high as
> possible within the house.

That’s because the newer wifi signals are actually slightly heavier than air so they fall down gradually after they’re broadcast. Kind of like the branches of a willow tree.

OK, I’m making my own meme, though I’ve not googled it, someone may have come up with it before me.

1. Click in your firefox address bar,
2. delete what’s there,
3. type the letter “w” and list the first four or five entries that firefox suggests

(feel free to use whatever web browser you like if they offer the same functionality)

Mine are:

1. Google Analytics - www.google.com/analytics
2. Canonical Homepage - www.canonical.com
3. Netbook Redirect Page - www.canonical.com/netbooks
4. Bearfruit.org comments moderation page - hidden page on this site
5. Ubuntu.com homepage - www.ubuntu.com

Post yours in the comments or a link to your blog post that continues the meme.

In an effort to save money I decided to shave my cat rather than take him to the groomer to be shaved.

I don’t think I’ll do that again. Some things are worth paying for. Fortunately he’s very forgiving. Sorry Snickers. :-)

We created a new banner for Debian’s birthday. At 15 years they’re one of the oldest distros still in active usage. What has made Debian unique is that its maintainers are passionate about two things - free software and the OSS philosophy and also about technical excelence. Debian is the foundation of Ubuntu so of course we’d have to do something to celebrate their birthday. The banner itself was created by Kenneth Wimer. I took it and overlaid it onto an existing Ubuntu banner so that it looked more like a real banner hung up over a doorway like you might do for a birthday party.

Last week, around May 2nd or 3rd, my daughter learned to crawl. It’s been a week so now she’s officially at that stage referred to as, “no really, don’t take your eyes off of her!”

So now I’ve got this challenge that so many people before me have faced. How to get her to be stationary for a little bit. This is my brief and whimsical diary of a few experiments.

OK, that subject line makes this sound more cool that it really is. The process was pretty simple. A little python script is attached that you can run locally. I’ll probably remake this in Javascript using a cool image based font that looks like the display on the speak and spell, but for now I just wanted to post this before I forgot about it. (I almost recycled it while cleaning off my desktop!)

Cats and Toilets

I think I’ve figured out why cats drink from the toilet. You see, when you feed a dog, he’ll clean the dish. Therefore you must feed him proper portions. Cats tend to be thrifty by nature. If you feed a cat, he’ll eat when he wants to, and just enough to satisfy himself. Therefore I’ve surmised that cats, being thrifty, drink from the toilet because they see it as a bountiful supply of water and are merely rationing their water bowl for that day that the toilet runs out. Quite brilliant.

Adobe has just released the Create Suite 3 product, but this time, with a new license!

I woke up today with “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” stuck in my head. I think that’s a foreboding sign. On an unrelated note, my cat disassembled a bird in my living room last night. That’s always a pretty sight to see when you walk down the stairs in the morning.