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Boycott McDonald’s - A Project of American Family Association
What the boycott of McDonald’s IS NOT about

* This boycott is not about hiring homosexuals.
* It is not about homosexuals eating at McDonald’s.
* It is not about how homosexual employees are treated.

What the boycott of McDonald’s IS about

It is about McDonald’s, as a corporation, refusing to remain neutral in the culture wars. McDonald’s has chosen not to remain neutral but to give the full weight of their corporation to promoting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual marriage.

Just from my family they will lose around 80 dollars a month.

Thanks again to the always-has-an-answer Ubuntu Forum.  I have E-sword running perfectly in Linux (under Wine).  Here’s the link

The only thing that would make me happier would be for Rick to release the e-Sword code as Open Source or at least make a full blown Linux version.  “Me toos!” and other comments welcome.

Try as I might, I could not get java to run in Firefox 3 on Ubuntu 8.04.  Turns out to be a really simple fix.

Eirik Hoem’s Blog had the answer to my problem:

I’ve been struggling with lava support for Firefox after upgrading from Ubunut 7.10 to 8.04. All I had to do was to remove the package called icedtea-gcjwebplugin. Now, I don’t know my way around java anymore, but at least it did the trick. Worth a shot if you have problems.

WND’s Joe Farah, writes here:

But John McCain won’t get any help from me. He won’t get my vote. In fact, to be honest, if the Republican Party is ever going to recover itself and become the party it was under Ronald Reagan, it will happen faster if John McCain is beaten. It will happen faster if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton gets elected and implement the Big Brother, socialist agenda they both endorse.

Bring it on. I’ll do my best to expose it. Maybe the American people will wake up and rediscover the meaning of freedom after tasting elitist, top-down, command-and-control, centralized socialism.

We’re all going to experience it in the next four years. It’s simply a question of who is going to be force-feeding it to us. I’d rather it come from the Democrats, so the American people know whom to blame.

Brilliant Button Maker by LucaZappa.com

This is a great little tool if you need a 80×15 button for your site.  I wish I had seen this before I just hand made a ton for OptimusMedia.

Whoa.. and I though my passwords were tough

Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords

Will keepass handle passwords that long? hahahaha.

I have a ton passwords.  I like strong and unique passwords for every site.

I love the password safe - Keepass.  It’s great and runs from a jump drive so I always have my passwords with me.  When I went to Linux, I was still able to use my keepass data thanks to a great fork KeePassX.

But I lost my auto-type feature - which i became dependent on. And closing the application always really closed it instead of sending it to my task bar like the windows version.  Well worry no more! The latest update has fixed all that and I’m fly through sites with random and difficult passwords like:

16AIC|dT4H0R:rKm}^2}!n,!f

Gotta love it!

Linux and Mac: KeepassX: keepassx.org

Windows version is available here: keepass.info

I’ve been beta testing the new Ubuntu Hardy - and it’s now working awesome!  With the exception of a bug with Adobe/Macromedia Fireworks.

However, I still find that a couple programs are keeping me locked into windows a little longer than I would like.

Dreamweaver (yes, I can and do code by hand, but I can work faster in Dreamweaver).  You can stick Fireworks in this paragraph, because while I like The gimp, for me, it’s not as easy as Fireworks - which I’ve grown to love over the years.

Then there’s quickbooks. Whom I have warned over the phone that this month will be my last upgrade unless they get a working linux model.  That gives them a couple years to work on it.  No, I’m not some huge company with 1000 of licences but I am a sign of things to come. Vista pushed many of us to Mac and Linux.  And as Ubuntu gets better and easier and “just works” more and more, you can expect that to become the norm.

Take heed my good friends at Adobe and Intuit. I’m willing to pay for software that works well.  And I’m willing to wait with you a little longer.  But time is running up.  I’m already playing with GNUcash and getting better with The Gimp everyday.

It’s great when you can Google something and find the fix (here) in less than 30 sec.

This is a bug that WP should be fixing very soon.  But good to know if you upload things with wordpress or if you are getting an error when you are uploading in Wordpress.

Oh and a side note: I like the layout of Wordpress 2.5.  Great job guys!

The Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Release is out.  I’ve upgraded and like what I am seeing so far. However, it has not been painless.  I continue to deal with issues related to proprietary hardware they (Compaq) put in this laptop to make it Vista Blista friendly.

So I’m a kernel version behind. I think I just need to find the right kernel for the AMD.  I’ll do a little more reading on this.  I’m also missing some of my Compiz settings because my Nvidia card is also a proprietary one (I know they have linux versions - this one isn’t however).  But I got it to work with 7.10.  I just need to find outwhat I did last time.  And depending what kernal I use, I loose my broadcom wireless.  That’s been a big issue in the past but they (Ubuntu) have come a long way on that, and expect them too overcome it again. Again I just need to do a little reading or post something to the Ubuntu Forum.

Don’t let any of that scare you from getting a live CD downloaded and trying Ubuntu for yourself.  For most people “it just works.” Let me know how it goes for you!  And if you have any questions, feel free to ask. I’m not an expert yet, but will help all I can.