JADB

Makes me sound like some kind of a geek…

Oh, wait a second…

Your Career Type: Investigative You are precise, scientific, and intellectual. Your talents lie in understanding and solving math and science problems.

You would make an excellent: Architect - Biologist - Chemist - Dentist - Electrical Technician - Mathematician - Medical Technician - Meteorologist - Pharmacist - Physician - Surveyor - Veterinarian

The worst career options for your are enterprising careers, like lawyer or real estate agent.

Thank God, it didn’t say I should be a Lawyer! You have to love the little icon, though…

You are a Self-Discoverer: You’re not religious, but you’ve created your own kind of spirituality. Introspective and thoughtful, you tend to look inward for the divine. You are distrusting of all forms of organised religion. You especially dislike religious gurus and leaders, who you feel are charlatans.

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?

As a former career soldier, Remembrance Day contains even more poignant meaning to me than it would to most people.

In commemoration of Remembrance day, the poem that lead to the wearing of poppies on this day:

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

Peace be with all of you…

I’ve been fairly lax in updating my blog for a wile, so here’s a slew of snippets:

I finally got around to downloading the new version of drivel from CVS; and then I, of course, had to go and turn into an RPM to install… Some days I’m just too much of a geek for my own good.

While I was at it, I also downloaded the newest version of RSSOwl, version 1.2, which does very well on Java 1.5.0 on Fedora. Now they just have to get it going on GCJ and compile it, and I will be well satisfied with it. Hmm… Wishful thinking.

My blog’s look seems to have settled for the time being, even though the Girl has voiced her displeasure at my choice of brown. Mind you, any brown would be considered a no-no, not just this particular shade thereof.

Unfortunately, like most guys I’m capable of identifying the tree primary colours with black and white fairly accurately about 80% of the time. The secondary colours give me slightly more problems; and beyond that I don’t even try. No wonder I stick with simplistic colour schemes…

Now I need to actually do something about my main site, Joomla! might be the answer there, but that means I’ll have to spend some time gluing them together with a wee bit of PHP and some CSS magic. Not difficult, I grant, but time consuming none the less.

And lastly, as a note to myself, I really do need to update the blog more often…