It so is !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16069118

Then why the heck do the people in power NOT do more to safe this wonderful world? Don’t you want this to be there for your kids and grand kids when they grow up? From where I set, most of us (not in power) are agreeing to what I say, but as soon as you get a little power you forget your dreams and this.

Politician, CEO’s of big polluting companies should be made to watch this Clockwork Orange style, every day they go into their office.

What I do among other things: I cycle everywhere, take my litter with me home and recycle where possible. It is the little things that get us started but we need too much more and not just from the grass-roots but from the top down too.

Hmm I noticed last night that in my Gmail I had a new label(folder) called circle. Which at first I was sure was just a short cut to my various circles.

Only today I tried to click on it to find out what it all was about. But for some reason it is pulling up my emails, not what is going on in my circles. Most of them do not have anything to do with the names/titles/persons in my circles. The normal friends and family circles are there though some are duplicated even though some aren’t friends or family and visa versa.

Then there is a circle I call cycle touring, it have picked up lots of my emails that has something to do with cycling but most of them aren’t or haven’t got anything to do with that circle. Ans so on for my other circles.

And what you wanted in there e.g. circles aren’t, the rest of circles are empty. So what is these links/circles in my email then?

The circles link within my Gmail contacts makes a lot of sense and I like it there and it works there. But mixing my emails up with my circles.

LINK: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/gmail-and-contacts-get-better-with.html

Run Zombies! It is the Zombie Rising!

I have always loved to sit down and watch a zombie moives and books about zombies and the age old question : fast or slow? Can have me talking for hours on end.

I have just become hooked to watching the Walking Dead, albeit the weak special effect, see the explosion end of season one, but hey that is not what I’m blogging about.

Shaun of the dead is already classic zombie movie in my eyes and is the one that stand in the slow corner.

If you can get your hands(bittorrent) on Dead Set from Channel 4 you are in for a brilliant little series (5 episodes) and is in the fast corner.

Always do remember to double tap as in Zombieland.

And so we can go on with what have come out over the last few years plus then there is all the classics.

“The Good News: We Survived. The Bad News: So Did They”

A few weeks ago I got hold of Feed by Mira Grant, which is a rather good read. But it also raise the question, when do you get infected. Which in the book you already are, the infection is just waiting for you to die. The idea of “life” after a zombie rising and that we are getting on with life after the fact, reminds me of Stephen King’s the Stand.

The walking dead, Shaun of the dead etc you get covered in blood an only when you are bitten you become a zombie. Though since nearly all zombie movie I have seen it is the blood that the cause. In Feed the whole area would get burned down if one little drop is spilled even if you are in it.

My next read will be Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, mainly because my other half keep going on and on about Pride and Prejudice, so I thought that I better read it :)

Other book on the next to read list : The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks and J.L. Bourne’s Day by day Armageddon.

Way back when in 1984-86 I was learning this new thing called computers. We had these lovely machines called Piccolo and later upgraded the Piccoline, green screen and big clunky keyboards.

NAME RC759 Piccoline
MANUFACTURER Regnecentralen
TYPE Professional Computer
ORIGIN Denmark
YEAR 1984
END OF PRODUCTION 1989
BUILT IN LANGUAGE None, mostly used with COMAL 80 or PASCAL.
KEYBOARD Full size QWERTY with Danish characters
CPU Intel 80186
SPEED Unknown
RAM 256 KB expandable to 512 KB
VRAM Unknown
ROM Unknown
TEXT MODES 80 columns x 24 lines
GRAPHIC MODES Yes, resolution unknown
COLOrsc Monochrome
SOUND Yes, unknown
I/O PORTS Printer, monitor, cassette player, remote printer/diskette, optional LAN
BUILT IN MEDIA 5 1/4 ”diskette station with printer interface, sharable between 4 computers
OS CP/M 86
POWER SUPPLY built-in switch mode
PERIPHERALS Unknown

Yup cutting edge :)
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Hmm ever since I installed Ubuntu 11.11 on my Dell 13 laptop, this thing has popped up in my running processes, e-addressbook-factory.

Which from what I understand is linked to Evolution, which I do not use, so why does it start up and eat my CPU at 100%.

I even tried to uninstall Evolution which was not a smart move at Ubuntu fell over because even when you don’t used Evolution Ubuntu does. Which meant I had to install Ubuntu again to get it to run right again as the attempt to install just Evolution again failed big time.
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I tried to run ubuntu 11.10 on our little HP Mini 110-3500, the GUI and Unity is clearly made for a bigger screen and didn’t really fly along. Probably because it only had 1Gb RAM to play with, even with Gnome3 it was still a bit of delay and lags as you tried to use it.

I did also find that the Chrome v14.something was struggling on a 64bit machine, not many people reported it. Though speed wise FireFox wasn’t that fast either.

So I was on the look out for something lighter on the system. I knew about Mint and other lighter version of ubunutu and linux. But when I spotted lubuntu I thought that I should give it a go.

I had seen online that there was some report that the HP Mini 110 have had it issues with the wifi. I also give it a go with the ubuntu install from the a USB stick along with dual booting with windows 7.
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