Archive for July, 2006

Blues

I’ve been quite numb for the past few days, and I’m sure everyone around me has noticed. I think I haven’t been getting much sleep because of the projects I’m working on. I’ve been quite disillusioned with the goings-on around me for a while. I’ve been stuck on two of the ugliest designs I ever […]

Bored

I’m supposed to be redesigning the new Still-Learning site and moving it over to Joomla with a custom theme. I made the sketch ages ago but just started designing today. It was hell… Firefox and Opera behaved wonderfully, but IE simply refused to budge, adding an ‘extra’ background to the div immediately below a closed […]

Eggs…

This week has been very uneventful, except maybe for the new cooking I tried. I bought a carton of white eggs at the corner shop, and silly as I was tried noiling them in the microwave. Only one made it out fully formed — the rest exploded, spattering the insides of my microwave with soggy […]

Cookies

I installed the CookieSafe extension for Firefox about a month ago and my browsing experience has never been the same — it’s about the best thing since guguru and epa [I mean it]. I spend an awful amount of time deleting cookies from other people’s paid ads[names like ads.doubleclick.net, media.fastclick.net and a.tribalfusion.com are some of […]

Debian and Slackware

I’m a very very ‘new bie’ on the Linux block. Due to my annoying hardware and unique architecture (thanks to eMachines), I have found it extremely hard to run Linux on my machine — especially the network and display. I’ve done a lot of research on the internet and the way to go seems to […]

Summer I

I’ve been doing nothing lately except loaf around on Nairaland and sleep. Yesterday was the Fourth of July but I only got to see fireworks going off at the armory sometime around 10pm last night. I’ve got very slow reflexes so I wasn’t able to take any useful pictures — luckily, I’m using a digicam, […]