Monthly Archives: June 2009

Upgrading to Jaunty Via the Command Line

June 30, 2009 | Leave a comment
Bizarrely, you can’t update from Intre­pid to Jaunty with a sim­ple apt-get dist-upgrade. I don’t under­stand why, but you can’t–you sim­ply get the report that no updates are available: 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. What you need to do instead is install the update tool, which is, as far [...]
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On Blogging (or an open response to a friend)

June 16, 2009 | Leave a comment
Recently I recieved this pic­ture in an email from a friend. I’ve got to say, I totally agree. I feel the same way about that stu­pid print­ing press tech­nol­ogy, too. It’s enabled so much crap–if only we hadn’t embraced the print­ing press, only the really smart peo­ple would be writ­ing stuff in the first place. Stu­pid democ­ra­ti­za­tion of communication.
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Alternative Way to Make Coffee with the AeroPress

June 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
There’s an inter­est­ing post about one of my favorite coffee-​​making gad­gets, the Aero­Press over on weeklyroast.com. He rec­om­mends mix­ing and plung­ing upside down. I like the idea–I’ve always felt like the Aero­Press’ biggest weak­nesses were: too much water drips out too fast through the fil­ter w/​o any pressure  the good stuff rises to the top [...]
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