Jimmy the Greyhound

Jimmy came into our house a little over a week ago as a foster dog. When we first met him he was full of beans and very unsettled but it soon showed that he was just a bit upset about being out of his familiar surroundings of his previous home.

What we soon discovered after a few days was the he was a big hearted dog who would do anything to make his people happy.

We had a lot of walks in the 8 days he was with us, and he was just starting to walk loosely and relaxed on the lead. He was a lot of fun and enjoyed running around with the toy bunny. He also started to enjoy a hug and was starting to embrace the inner couch potato that we know is on the inside of every greyhound and was getting the hang of this strange up bed that he was given to sleep on. He loved children and socialized well with other little dogs.

I have no doubt that he would have passed his green collar test with flying colours, he had all the attributes of a greyt pet and companion dog.

Unfortunately there were some complications while at the vet and they weren't able to save him. Some things are tragedies, this is one of them.

Jimmy you were a greyt dog, even though you were with us for only 8 days you bought something into our lives and made an impression upon us, we will always remember you.

Tomboy Notes

What can I say, I love free software!!!
For me a while back "Free Software" used to mean the programs I got a crack for so I didn't have to pay for them. Now it means the programs that I can use, swap, redistribute and modify, free as in freedom to do with it as I choose.

One of the most useful programs that I use is called Tomboy notes, I have been using it for a while and it usually comes installed with Ubuntu.



You know those little tid bits of info that you need to keep, and you can't find your pen so you need to type it somewhere? Or it doesn't fit into any category so you cant file it any were on your computer? Well thats Tomboy notes is for. Whats more is that it has a built in search, so if you can't remember exactly where you put your info its still easy to find. Another feature that I like is that you can link notes together by inserting the title of one note into another.

What is even more awesome is that I noticed that Tomboy is not only available on Linux but they do Mac and Windows versions as well, so go ahead and download it and check it out and see if you like it if you do, let me know what you think.

Download here

I think I have made it easier to leave a comment :)


(Images are unashamedly copied directly of of the tomboy notes site I believe they are under a creative commons license)

this week

OK so its been an interesting week, I wasn't fortunate to get an invite to google wave, but I know that some folk are busy testing it for me for when it is ready for release to the public.

I'm getting tired of Facebook, it is really limited in a proprietary kind of way, what you seem to get is what they want to throw at you, I still use it to keep in touch with family and friends, but I have disabled all the game notifications, they were starting to annoy me. I am instead going to blog here which is what I want to do and maybe link to it.

There are lots of tools here to do some good blogging so I'll try them out and see if I like them.

I have been happy with Google Picasa it seems to do a great job of organizing my photos without rearranging my file structure I think I will stick with it for now, I can't see myself getting stuck with a proprietary format so it should do the job for a while, at least until a mature GPL program come out.

I have been reading the blogoshere regarding the up and coming Windows 7 release, there have been a lot of positives about Windows 7 however the fact remains, it is just an Operating System, with it you still lack the freedoms that you have with Linux/FreeBSD to do with you computer as you wish, so it remains something that I'm not really interested in but feel free to use it yourself.

I'm pretty happy with how Ubuntu 9.10 is going, its hard to believe that it is still beta software. What is really cool is how much the bluetooth stuff has improved, especially the audio, I think they have finally got that properly sorted I need to get testing some audio editing software I guess to really put it though it paces.

Well thats it for now I guess, have a good week an I hope to blog again soon. If you read this please do me a favor and at least put a smilee face in the comments, I'd like to know you are reading my blog.

Cheers Darrin