The Random Ramblings of mattfast1

Ubuntu One Subscribed Folders

Matt Van Dusen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:44:41 +0000

As followers of my blog know, the hard drive in my laptop recently failed, forcing me to reinstall both Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) and Windows 7. Fortunately on the Ubuntu side, I did have Ubuntu One set up with the free 2GB account, which is a cloud-based backup service. However, I found that once I [...]

Hard Drive Saga

Matt Van Dusen — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:26:44 +0000

As those following my Twitter feed (on Facebook, here or at http://www.twitter.com/mattfast1) know, the hard drive in my laptop failed a couple days ago. The warning signs when it finally failed were pretty impossible to ignore: I had two operating systems installed on the computer. One (Ubuntu LTS 10.04) would not boot at all (“Could [...]

Why I Blog

Matt Van Dusen — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:39:46 +0000

Why do I blog? I’ve asked myself that several times over the years. Most of the time, I don’t get a good answer from my own brain, and I usually forget. However, I’ve been blogging for long enough, I think I have a better answer. I started blogging in early 2002. At the time, I [...]

Blog Cleanup & Consolidation

Matt Van Dusen — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:50:28 +0000

Those who follow my blog may remember back in February 2009, when I cleaned up many of the posts on this blog by making many of them private. Today, I’ve laid most of the groundwork to finish bringing this blog back to the forefront of my digital life. Yesterday, I installed Twitter Tools. This brings [...]

Landlords, Tenants, and Rentals: What Every Colorado Resident Should Know

Matt Van Dusen — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:35:13 +0000

Yesterday, I walked into my apartment to find a receipt for services performed by a pest control company. This seemed misplaced to me, since I was never given any notice that anyone would be in my apartment that day, and of course the office was closed by then so I couldn’t go over there to [...]

New Feature: Twitter Tools!

Matt Van Dusen — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:53:02 +0000

As visitors to my blog may have noticed, my sidebar has an area that shows the last 5 tweets I’ve sent to twitter. Previously, this was handled using the RSS feed from Twitter, and was fairly ugly. For example, it kept the username, and the entire thing showed as a link rather than just the [...]

StickyBits

Matt Van Dusen — Sat, 29 May 2010 03:49:23 +0000

Anyone coming to this blog may notice a new barcode on the left side of every page. This is a StickyBits barcode that allows you to attach audio, video, text, images, and more to ANY barcode including the custom ones that can be generated via their website. You are requested to scan this barcode with [...]

Matt Van Dusen — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:56:46 +0000

A wireless headset has many advantages over a wired one. One of which is the ability to hit the head late at night with other people in the house trying to sleep, but still rock out. Related Posts:Tweets on 2010-09-06Tweets on 2010-08-22Picture ThisWeather Station!#28 – A Cold Shower Isn't The Only RemedyPowered by Contextual Related [...]

Best Buy Software Installer: Win, or Fail?

Matt Van Dusen — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:53:50 +0000

Much of the tech reporting blogs and websites have already started to spread the word about the Best Buy Software Installer (“BBSI”), just days after some websites started making the claim that the Geek Squad Optimization service is a “Big Stupid Waste of Money”. But what some of these pundits may not know is what [...]

Theme Restored

Matt Van Dusen — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:21:37 +0000

Alright, listen up… If you’ve been to by blog since December 1st, you’ll have noticed it was a boring blue blob, pretty-looking but that is about it. It seems around that time, Michael Heilemann decided to remove the Vader theme from K2 since it was “old and rarely updated anyway”. Well it may have been [...]