VirtualBox OSE on Kubuntu

Here are a couple of pointers on getting VirtualBox OSE running on Kubuntu from my recent install.

VirtualBox OSE

Why Firefox?

Firefox 3Today wasn't the first day I have been asked this, but here is the usual question, and my answer:

Customer: "Why do you want me to download Firefox, and will it mess up my computer?"

What shall I do with this day?

Woot, it's my birthday, and now I am older. Thanks to all the good people on Twitter who wished me a good one!

Really I don't put a lot of stock in birthdays, but it is a good chance for my wife and I to have some together time and a great opportunity for the grandparents to get some grandchildren time.

Today, I am going to go see...

Wiki-Up that Drupal site

This morning, before our morning walk, and other family affairs, I poked around making Drupal my personal wiki. Why, that's probably what your asking? Drupal is a CMS, or CMS framework, and there are alternatives to Drupal for sure when it comes to wikis. PHPWiki, DokuWiki, MediaWiki, even the hosted PBWiki all come to mind.

Playset, check, sunstroke, check

Well, let me tell you that those wooden play sets are not the easiest thing I have ever built. I have built furniture for a job when I was younger, and never have I project as large as the swing/slide/fort that I built for the kids yesterday.

We got up pretty early, and I think I was started by 8 or 9 in the morning. I finished up about 10:30, at night, with my wife doing the hokey pokey in front of the motion sensitive light so that I could put in the last couple of turns of the wrench.

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