http://www.yippeekayay.com a real suave & debonair mofo™ Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:29:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a story of trying to get a Home Depot stock check at a non-local Homedepot store, after finding it out of stock at my local store. It all started on Sun, 9/26/2010. I was looking for a string trimmer and I eyed the Homelite 15 in. 5.5 Amp ... http://www.yippeekayay.com/2010/09/27/home-depot-stock-check/ It was a royal PITA to get Adobe Flash Player 10 installed on my Ubuntu 64-bit workstation, so I figured I'd make a quick note and hopefully spare others the pain. This is an Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 install (a.k.a. 64-bit Intrepid). You've probably gotten the following error while trying to ... http://www.yippeekayay.com/2009/02/25/installing-flash-player-on-64-bit-ubuntu-810-amd64/ I wanted to do something very simple, considering it's the last year of the first decade of the 3rd millennium (Gregorian calendar, of course). Namely, to check the status of an Air France flight from Miami to Paris Charles de Gaulle. I typed airfrance<Ctrl+Enter> in the address bar, which brought ... http://www.yippeekayay.com/2009/01/15/how-not-to-do-a-web-form/ The technology doesn't matter. While technology matters, the technology does not. In the grand scheme of things, technology is a critical ingredient, and any particular technology may matter for a set time horizon. More often then not, the technology is just a means to an end. Most successful ... http://www.yippeekayay.com/2008/12/18/the-technology-doesnt-matter/ Here's a hot travel tip of the medicinal kind for you: go run to your local drug store, pick up a bag of zinc lozenges and pack it away in your travel kit. Make this a priority item so you don't forget! Although zinc lozenges have no expiration ... http://www.yippeekayay.com/2008/10/01/health-travel-tip-zinc-lozenges/ After installing, and subsequently uninstalling, some software on one of my Vista x64 boxen, Control Panel from the Start menu brought up a menu- & title-less window which hung for 15-30 seconds, then closed itself. Printing also stopped working, and trying to Add a Printer (the way I got ... http://www.yippeekayay.com/2008/09/24/broken-control-panel-and-no-printing-in-vista/ I consider myself a runner and I read running-related publications, including Runner's World. A couple of months ago they had a special report about women's running skirts, which are becoming mainstream. And, apparently, there's a big divide between those that are for and against them. The whole ... http://www.yippeekayay.com/2008/09/18/real-runners-wear-skirts/ I love diesels. I've always wanted one and I thought this fall I would finally get one in the USA, a 50-state-legal one. A nice, 6MT torque monster that gets 45+ MPG, ideally of the Euro sports wagon variety. And I've been telling anyone and everyone, "Don't buy ... http://www.yippeekayay.com/2008/06/01/clean-diesels-in-the-us-too-little-too-late/ The few times I had to use proper Romanian in emails, a language I'm fluent in, I used Windows with a Ro keyboard layout to type its 5 extra glyphs (ăâîşţ). I've grown somewhat accustomed to using keys like [, ], ;, ' for input, and its strange flip ... http://www.yippeekayay.com/2008/03/11/linux-makes-romanian-better/ As some of you may know, one of the more popular Linux kernel patchsets is going away. Con Kolivas has released the last ever -ck patchset. This may not seem all too important, but I became curious as to why this was. So I started to scour ... http://www.yippeekayay.com/2007/08/17/a-frank-look-at-linux-kernel-development/