http://www.purinchu.net/wp The answer to life, the universe, and everything Thu, 08 May 2008 22:48:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So Mario Kart Wii came out the other day. Given that every Mario Kart ever has been at least a great game, we picked it up immediately. I've only played it in versus mode, both competitively and cooperatively with my wife, in racing and both battle modes, and I can ... http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2008/05/08/how-infuriating/ So before I went underway our car had developed a trouble causing the Check Engine light to come in continuously. No abnormal sounds but being nuclear-trained has taught me not to live with "locked-in" alarms or warnings. I wasn't able to troubleshoot it in the limited time I ... http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2008/05/08/victory-again/ I think I blogged earlier about the Dell Inspiron laptop I bought with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. I managed to use it sparingly underway (had I known beforehand how little free time I would have I wouldn't have bothered but that's a different story). It was cool showing some ... http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2008/05/05/hardy-heron-sound/ So now I'm back in town again, after a fairly harrowing (for me) patrol. Apparently being chem-radcon officer is a lot of work for inspection. The final grade is apparently classified so I won't remain on the topic for too long, but I didn't do too bad at ... http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2008/05/02/rtp-the-official-tla-for-return-to-port/ At some point soon I'll be away again. So, I've made a new release of kdesvn-build so that people not tracking the trunk version of it can still use the nifty asynchronous download/build feature. (Sorry if the output still seems buggier, you can disable using --no-async if you ... http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2008/02/13/going-away-again/ So at long last the first release in the KDE 4 series, KDE 4.0 has been released. A couple of days after they tagged 4.0 I switched to using KDE 4 as my working desktop. (btw, isn't it odd that the tag name is 4.0.0 if the release was called 4.0?) It ... http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2008/01/12/kde-400/ So I bought the game Galactic Civilizations II a long time ago. I was able to play it on my wife's laptop and I figured it had to be pretty easy to get at least the major parts of the game running in Wine since it doesn't have the ... http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2007/12/31/victory-is-mine/ So yesterday I completed my submarine officer qualification board. Today I had my dolphins pinned on me by my wife. It's different having them on, I'm still not really sure what to make of it. For better or for worse you're looked at differently by submariners if ... http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2007/12/18/qualified-in-submarines/ So I went to a football game today with officers from my ship. Throwing the football before the game, I somehow managed to injure the ring finger on my left hand on a catch. I kept it iced during the game and was able to flex it and ... http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2007/12/10/i-think-im-allergic-to-footballs/ kio_perldoc: I'll keep it short: Ported to KDE 4. The GENERATOR metainfo in the output has kio_perldoc now, so that proper blame may be placed. The S tag in Pod now produces HTML which isn't super broken. (Look for Mac OS in perlport) Don't try to load IMG tags. I wasn't going to ... http://www.purinchu.net/wp/2007/12/01/kio_perldoc/