kde-4.3.2 and koffice-2.0.83, for slackware{,64}-current
sorry for the short post, but see http://cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/kde/kde4-packages/4.3.2/
so long twitter
last night, while sitting on the couch with my wife. we had a brief discussion on the instant, constant, and far too imediate communication that comes with a service like twitter. so i absolve, so long world of twitter. today i deleted my account entirely. micro blogging is too much. i enjoyed getting to know people, real people. not pretending to be associated with a cluster of people, just to say that i'm a part of the pulse of the world. this lonely blog gives me more than ample outlet to voice myself. and much more realistic pulse of connection to the heartbeat of the world.
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Update: April 2009
i would almost delete this post completely, since i have resended my decision on twitter and re-activated my vbatts account, except for i am not going to deny that i did at one point delete my twitter account. i have heard enough of the various news and current event sources that i listen to, announce that they to have a twitter account. it is like an interactive news feed. further, i have official heard of some good that twitter served. with the recent policy changes, the twitter-verse started chatting up a storm to the extent that corporate executives and publisher advocacy groups took notice and began making imediate corrections to the tag filtering, within 48 hours of implementing the new change.
other links
- Amazon Says It Will Correct Its Search Function
- Amazon Learns A Painful Lesson About The Twitter Hashtag
New Old Stuff
I've found several old ideas that i had jotted down, from years past. figure as much to post them here periodically, maybe someone will enjoy stumbling upon them. so the first in these thoughts:
consciouness
2006.Aug.30
Who do you think you are?
your feeling of entitlement to your thoughts and ideas because you realize you exist.
the moment you breath and realize it.
you are burned and feel it, stop and think about it, what exactly are you feeling, and why does this vessel make you feel it like that.
yes, you are looking around you, and see and hear and smell.
NAME CHANGE !!!
due to my cheapness in many respects, i have stuck with batts.mine.nu for years. as many people could deduce, it is a freely availble deal through dyndns.com. being so, many people can register whatever they want.
lately there were a sweep of Russian hackers and phishers doing mis-deeds. this has pretty well jammed up many things for my site (i.e., search engines dropping me, email servers bouncing me, and even my own firefox warns me against visiting my site 
SO,
officially, i'm rebranded as hashbangbash.com
i set up a mod_rewrite web forward to allow the search engines to re-index
after a while of that, i will remove all ties that i have to batts.mine.nu, in the meanwhile i will be attempting to update anything that links, to instead point it to {blog,webmail,music,ftp,www}.hashbangbash.com
thanks all!