So you want to get a guinea pig or just got one? Why search the world wide webs when I’ve already done it? Please find for your benefit the most useful links I found so far. Hope this is useful for you and please add more to the comments if you find more. Pre-Purchase Research Overview video on YouTube: easy…
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The Meaning of the Name Wayne
I have been packing this cheesy little postcard thing around with me my whole life because it has always astounded me at how well it describes me. If it weren’t for this 1970’s dollar store cheap print, I would have probably legally changed my name back to “Daniel” – a name my parents were apparently about to give me before…
Water and Bottles
I felt that there was enough interesting, controversial, educational and even spiritual information surrounding water that it warranted the time of my day. The purpose of this blog post is to create a ‘go to’ place for interesting information about water. I look forward to everyone’s replies with links to other interesting water information. Here is my first batch of…
How to Make Your Big External Drive an Ubuntu Studio computer With a Big Storage Drive Accessible by Any Ubuntu Computer
I was given a big hard drive by my friend so that I could start using Ubuntu Studio (‘USTUD’ from hereon in) and working on some audio. The challenge was that when I installed USTUD on the drive it could only really be used as a self contained computer. I thought it would be useful to have the option of…
How to Start Thunderbird and Other Programs at Startup in Ubuntu 13.10
UPDATE 2023: A full nearly 10 years later I realized this blog post is still nearly good but a small change is required in the steps below as follows for ubuntu 22.04+ kind of range after step 2: * after hitting the browse button in step 2 you need to hit ‘+ Other Locations’ at bottome of left pane, then…
Franchisees – Well Chosen Victims
I was a franchisee of a big coffee chain for many years in Vancouver. To sum up the story, it ended ugly and I was shocked that I had involved myself with such a system. But actually, I’m not shocked at all – I was completely ignorant. And that really got me thinking. The thought rolled over and over again…
The Tithe Challenge
The ‘tithe’ has a lot of significance to me these days. When I first gave my life to Jesus the first major challenge I had was the concept of the tithe because my worldly teachers had always taught me to ‘save and invest in my own empire’. Wikipedia defines the tithe as 10% contribution to a religious organization or compulsory…
Ubuntu Touch Poised to Enter Market with New Smart Phone Partner
It is not often that one can be slightly ahead of a major change or curve. I like to document these moments in a blog post. Bit Coin was my last one. People thought I was crazy to accept Bit Coin at my coffee shop and just a few months (not years) afterwards people were coming back and asking, “how…
How to Recover your Thunderbird Emails with Free and Open Source software
I wanted to post this post right away to make sure anyone in my boat knows there is help coming soon. It took me almost a month to figure out how to do this so I hope you will save a month and even more important, a lot of pain and money. The actual tutorial is coming as soon as…
Keep it Clean and Don’t Burn Bridges: It’s a Small World After All
It has been a few months since I have been spit out the other end of my coffee shop franchise – the most painful 5+ years of my life. There are not too many people out there who have lost their entire lifetime earnings plus their inheritance, but when this suffering occurs it creates an instant bond with others who…