I didn’t really find specific instructions, so I’m posting some. I’m assuming that other Android phones will be similar.

1. Go to the home screen.
2. Hit the menu key.
3. Choose ‘settings’ on the menu that pops up.
4. Scroll all the way down and select ‘About phone’.
5. Select ‘status’.
6. You’ll have to scroll down a bit again, but you should see ‘Wi-Fi MAC address’ in the list; along with other identifying information.

Python2.5 is no longer available in Ubuntu Lucid.

Thankfully, Felix Krull is maintaining a repository: pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv sudo easy_install virtualenv #Now for some irony - we'll use setuptools to install 'pip', which is a nicer tool that does the same thing, but works better with virtualenv: sudo easy_install pip #Now we setup a project (named edthedev for example): mkdir ~/projects mkdir ~/virtualenv # Create a Python2.5 virtual environment for the edthedev project virtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python2.5 ~/virtualenv/edthedev # Check out the project: cd ~/projects svn co svn.edthedev.com/projects/edthedev # Activate the virutalenv that we created for this project. source ~/virtualenv/edthedev/bin/activate # Try running the project ~/edthedev/bin/addJiraTicket --debug # Look at that, we're missing some required packages... # so use pip to install it into our virtual environment. pip install fpconst # But one of our packages isn't available on pypi, # so we will install it directly from the online source tarball pip install sourceforge.net/projects/pywebsvcs/files/SOAP.py/SOAPpy%200.11.0/SOAPpy-0.11.0.tar.gz/download # Repeat the previous few steps until your program runs properly inside the virtual environment. ~/edthedev/bin/addJiraTicket --debug # We will save a REQUIREMENTS.txt file to include with our project to make things easier for the next user. pip freeze > REQUIREMENTS.txt

Check out the contents of REQUIREMENTS.txt, and notice that it includes every package we’ve installed to get our virtual environment working, inluding the exact package version. You may want to change the ‘==’ signs to ‘>=’ if you trust your dependencies to maintain backward compatibility.

I like this article, because one of my passions in life is striving to be a really loud green dot.*

• Yea, I had to wait a quarter of a lifetime to say that; and yea, it was worth the wait.

It found that my World of Warcraft installer files were wasting 8GB of space, even though I had removed World of Warcraft, itself.

Also, there’s a MAC version called Disk Inventory X, which is also quite awesome.

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map! ^[OB ^[ja
map! ^[OD ^[i
map! ^[OC ^[la
set nocompatible "Don't emulate old vi bugs.
set autoindent " Yay!
set smartindent
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
set showmatch "Parenthesis matching.
set vb t_vb= "Flash instead of beep.
set ruler
set nohls "Do not highlight search matches.
set incsearch "Search as I type
" Type :help options within vim to get a complete list of options.

set nowrap "Do not wrap long lines of code.
set textwidth=120
set foldmethod=marker

"Place all vim backup files into the user home directory.
set backupdir=~/.vimbackup

Normally I lecture people about switching to Firefox, installing NoScript and checking at least monthly that Java and Adobe are up to date. The folks at Mozilla seem to be on a quest to save me from forever repeating those instructions, and I thank them kindly.

My instructions are now a bit simpler:

1. Switch to Firefox

2. Use this website to make sure that you are safe. https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/

3. Check back with the website weekly.

White Noise by TMSoft is currently my favorite. Their boat rocking, railroad tracks bumps and various types of rain are great for relaxing just the right amount.

I also highly recommend the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie sound track, and just about anything composed by John Williams.

Update: My friend Rob pointed me to the incredibly awesome Trance Around the World Podcast. Highly recommended.