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Because I am on the internet, and because the apps I use offer statistics, I figure I would share some of them, feel free to do the same, if you feel the urge.

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Hi, I have a demonstrably repeatable problem which keeps cropping up at around 7:30am every morning (and at other sporadic times). So far, as best as I can understand, the problem is triggered by putting the ProNutro in my breakfast bowl (I have tried multiple bowls and still have the same show-stopper). Once I have added the ProNutro I add the milk, but I can only estimate how much I need, based on how much ProNutro I have put in. I assume everything is alright, because the bowl holds the milk and powder correctly, there is no visible overflow.

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I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). I was pleasantly surprised when Firefox 3 greeted me as the default browser, but then hit a few speed bumps. Being a web developer I constantly use tools like firebug and MeasureIt. Unfortunately, until Firefox 3 is widespread (and released), many extensions don't work (there are hacks, but they come with problems).

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Hi,

The improvements to internet banking have some bugs, it seems.

I have had the experience twice now during "once off payments" that I get an error of "Internet banking is currently unavailable" when I go through with a transaction. It seems to be related to sending payment confirmations. It is bad behaviour because the transaction goes through, but the user (me) does not get a valid indication the payment has succeeded until a notification (sms, or email) comes through, or manually checks if there is a mention on the account transacted from/to.

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Because Blogging has become a secondary industry to Having a Family, and Working, and Living In Cape Town, I figured it was time for a generic status update, for those of you who dont use Twitter, and/or live near me. It is a hodge-podge, so apologies to any random internet search victims who think this page contained what they were looking for.

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I subscribe to the IEBlog because it is always good for a laugh, or good to see exactly how much they are copying from the rest of the community. Recently Bill Hill, the Program Manager for Internet Explorer posted a little blurb about using their nice Consolas font for use in CMD.exe (Microsoft's built in emulator of the 1980's command prompt, for the linux readers out there).

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I saw this on B-List and I am not one to stop the marching hoardes of an internet meme about geeky stuff.

$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head
  103   ls
   67   cd
   62   vim
   48   svn
   23   sudo
   21   ssh
   18   mysql
   16   date
   13   xrandr
   11   mv

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I just entered the GNOME 2.24 wallpaper competition, attached is my entry. I would appreciate critism, and suggestions. If you like it, use it, and share it!

Attached are more resolutions, and original SVGs. I built the SVGs using Inkscape 0.46

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In a recent post on the google blog they lay some smack down for Microsoft's continued attempts to get their OOXML standardised. The kicker is:

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In celebration of the newly announced "Intrepid Ibex" (or Ubuntu 8.10), I once again bring your attention to my python script which generates alternative Ubuntu names. I brute forced some names starting with I and came up with these alternatives (which suggests maybe Intrepid Impala would be a nicer name for 8.10).

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