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Emma with her aunt's glasses

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Mega Man 9

I just downloaded the Mega Man 9 demo on my PS3, and damn, is it good. Whenever I manage to get past the first level, Capcom so has my $10.

Penny Arcade has said it better than I ever could (And this is probably the best endorsement of a video game I have ever seen):

I just had to share my nostalgic joy. If you have a system that will play Mega Man 9, you should get it.

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Data sent out to Google by Google Chrome

Google has posted a thorough explanation of the data that Google Chrome sends to Google and others and how to opt out of it. I give Google brownie points for this, but... where is my Chrome for Linux, yo? ;)

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For your health

Seen while running out by DVC on Saturday.

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Info on Linux Flash crashes

A couple of nights ago, the flash plugin crashed yet again on me, and I decided to look into it. Here's the details of what I found, in the hopes that it may help others. This is a bit Ubuntu specific, but the information might be useful to those running other distributions.

I found ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/192888 which describes what is happening in great detail.

For those that don't want to click on the link, the short of it is that the flash player has an interface so that you can write an library to make it support audio output libraries that it doesn't natively support. There is a bug in the flash player that makes the player very unstable when this interface is used. Modern Linuxes all tend to use this interface to support modern sound servers, since flashplayer doesn't have any support for sound services.

Apparently, flashplayer 10 does support the sound correctly, so I ended up following the instructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5587712&postcount=472 and that seems to work. We'll see how my milage fares.

Note that I tried installing the flashplayer manually from here: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html. But I couldn't get the sound to work, so there is still something wrong with ubuntu's sound packages, and one really does need the backported packages from Intrepid to get player 10 to work.

For those of you not on Ubuntu, you can try removing libflashsupport and installing flash player 10, as that might work just fine for you.

This link here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4928900 is the manual steps that one can do to get the Ubuntu audio configuration to be sane (and also has instructions on how to install a wrapper for mozilla plugins so that when they crash, they don't take down the browser), but I couldn't get everything to work right with player 10 with those instructions, and I then noticed the link at the top which redirected me to the other forum post that I mentioned earlier.

Phew. Hope this helps.

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Speaking of Robots

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The Robots Are Coming

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The joy of discovery

This morning, I ran up a trail that I hadn't explored before, and I
discovered the Walnut Creek Open Space. The really neat part about it is
that it's up in the hills, so there are plenty of spots for a nice view
of the valley. In some ways it's a shame that the sun comes up so late
these days, because it's really hard to take nice pictures without a
tripod with the light that I have when running. (And it helps that I
managed to forget to try and take a few at a higher ISO than 80. =)

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Photo meme

Because Brett did it, I've been infected with the photo meme.

Instructions: Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with the picture.

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Morning Sun

When I finished my run this morning, I noticed that the sun was shining
directly down Sunnyvale Ave, so I stopped and took a couple of pictures.
I couldn't decide which one of these two were the best, so I'm posting
both of them.

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