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Facebook Photo Uploader in Fedora 16

Running Fedora 16 PAE with Firefox 9 and the Adobe Flash plugin, I found that the facebook photo uploader control was not working. The flash plugin itself seemed fine, but just didn't want to work with facebook. I found that the solution was to remove nspluginwrapper. After that it worked like a charm.


Then and Now

I was listening to the CBC this morning and realizing that no-one is going to wax poetically about video-game hockey like they do for the old slot-hockey tables.


The stars died so that you could be here today.

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time.


Know Your Meme

Video from KnowYourMeme.com
My modification of the Vancouver 2010 mascots can be seen at the 2:00 mark...


Remembrance... of the short end of the stick

It's Remembrance Day again. In some past years I've made posts about my father's service during WWII (2001, 2003 repost, 2005 repost, 2008) and at other times I've written about some of the horrors my mother and father survived during WWII. And one year I had a few things to say about why it's important to remember war. Let me reiterate and expand on those thoughts:


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