wysereeser.com

Eclipse is a pretty flexible application development tool, I’ve been using it off an on with some degree of satisfaction. Previously its handled upgrades reasonably well. I don’t use the tool often enough to really pay attention to when an upgrade occurs. But for a considerable amount of time I’ve noticed that the application hasn’t undergone an upgrade that it initiated. So I finally decided to google the problem and found a post on the subject (a year ago!).

So I don’t know why I haven’t bothered to look into this more, but I use VNC occasionally and noticed (a long time ago) that the x session that’s started through it wasn’t the full blown gnome desktop. While a bummer, it wasn’t that big of a deal. The fix was a simple one. TightVNC gets its profile settings from a .vnc folder in which contains a ‘xstartup’ bash script that runs when the server is started to load user settings, etc. The line I needed to change was:
x-window-manager &
to instead:
gnome-session &
A quick restart of the vnc server and back to the nice gnome environment. I don’t know why I didn’t bother sorting that out before…..

Venture should build around community, not technology: Community Trumps Technology

Interesting point….

lifehack.org » Bootstrapping a Viral Startup

I’ve heard of this book before, never thought to check into it more. But it seems like it might be worth flipping through.
SolutionJunkie20–20Doug20Giuliana
Hipster PDA Templates
Hipster PDA Instructions

Awesome! Google Maps API

Stumbling around as usual and came across a site that deals with environmental issues in the Madison area. Madison Environmental Group

I was surprised this morning to find a post to Senator Herb Khol, in reference to an article I read on CNET. I found out about the article through Slahsdot, and as is often the case, its interesting to read many of the comments shared in relation to the story and reading people’s reactions to what the Patriot Act represents.

Update: Not that I would move there, but the Free State Project seems interesting.

I like WordPress primarily because its something that I’m a little more comfortable with and the degree of customization. One tricky aspect I’ve already noticed is that if you have made any custom modifications to the application or its files to get a particular plugin/extra feature to work you’ve got to keep track of it somewhere so that when an upgrade is performed, you’re not overwriting a collective of work that’s been performed getting to that point. Still it seems really cool to be able to use many of the features that are provided. I still want to try the email posting option, and I’m really interested in its potential for integration with Gallery. I’ve only begun to play around with trying to get set up the connection between those two. I’m trying to use the new version, v2, that’s out on beta 3, which is really slick when compared to the old version.

This is kinda of interesting.

Municipal broadband and wireless projects map | CNET News.com
Wisconsin
Municipal wireless
Functioning projects:

Sun Prairie, Waupaca, Jackson, Shawano
Projects under development or consideration:

Madison, Waukesha, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine, Bristol
Municipal fiber-to-the-premise
Functioning projects:

Reedsburg
Projects under development or consideration:

None
Municipal broadband laws
Laws limiting communications networks:

Yes
Pending legislation to limit communications networks:

None

Stumbled across: fredmiranda.com: Specialized in digital cameras, photoshop actions, and digital darkroom.

They apparenlty have regular photo contests, but from what I can tell it costs $5/month just to have the chance to upload photos into the contest. …. Would be funner if it was for free, my guess is the cost of hosting the photos is the problem. People could just as easily point to where their photo is hosted, but I’m not seeing anywhere if that was considered or possible.