Lost

The movie industry inundated us with 3D this past holiday season. If you didn't catch Jim Carey's take on Dickens, you didn't miss much. My wife and I saw it in 2D, sans glasses. Turns out the movie is a flop if you're not into being wowed by 3D tricks. […]

3D vision – get over it already

Fri January 15, 2010 in General tagged dickens / holiday / Lost / nvidia (updated 5582 days ago)

In a twist of fate that I personally found less than humorous, on Tuesday I had to use an article I’d just submitted to Linux Journal to recover from my own stupidity. I had just submitted an article on doing automated backups to Linux Journal (due out in the March) […]

Using my own research: backup and recovery

Thu December 17, 2009 in General tagged Linux / linux journal / Lost (updated 5614 days ago)

I tend to work very much to myself on projects. I get help from the open source community via discussion forums or mailing lists, but in-house (at work or at home) I’m pretty much on my own to figure things out. This has led to some development practices which work […]

Debuggers vs debug libraries

Wed January 16, 2008 in Linux / Software Development tagged java / Lost / Open Source

I’ve been doing a lot of web site development lately, all of it based on using WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System). I’ve found that V2.0 of WordPress makes an excellent CMS if you just dig around for the right set of plugins to go with it. Lately, I’ve […]

WordPress Plugins: Advanced Menus, Counterize, Simple Forum, Popup Image ...

Tue February 06, 2007 in Wordpress tagged GIMP / java / Lost / Wordpress (updated 6659 days ago)

I just installed the official FlashPlayer9 from Macromedia on my FC5 box at work. I then went to the Lost and Battestar Galactica sites, two sites that previously would not work correctly with the FlashPlayer9 beta releases. Well, they work flawlessly now. Kudos to the Adobe team for getting it […]

Flash Player 9: Official release (and it really works ...

Wed January 17, 2007 in Linux / Lost / Video tagged Linux / Lost / Open Source (updated 6663 days ago)

Adobe released the Flash Player 9 plugin for Linux this week. I downloaded it and tried it under identical software configs (FC5 & Firefox 1.5.0.7) on two different machines. I tried viewing my two favorite sites that contain Flash content: ABC's Lost and SciFi.com's Battlestar Galactica . With the old […]

No joy with Flash Player 9 Beta under Fedora Core ...

Sat October 21, 2006 in Art and Graphics / Linux tagged Fedora / Linux / Lost (updated 6767 days ago)

So someone in this big ol' planet found my little blog entry about the Hanso Foundation image and linked to it on Technorati. I followed a thread about this and found that at least a few people thought I was crazy and had no clue what I was talking […]

Fun with Lost, again.

Thu August 31, 2006 in Lost / TV tagged GIMP / graphics / Lost / Wordpress (updated 6803 days ago)

I was digging around the ABC website tonight after the season finale, rumaging through the forums. I found a link to The Lost Experience Blogspot and started reading. In there was a clue posted on the Hanso site (which I can’t read with Firefox for some reason – Arggghhh). There […]

Decoding a Hanso clue (re: fun with Lost)

Thu May 25, 2006 in Lost / TV / Writing tagged GIMP / graphics / Lost (updated 6916 days ago)

My Aiptek 12000U arrived today. It’s a refurbished tablet but it appears to be in the original packaging. This is what I’m doing to get it configured under Linux. First, I had to go to the Aiptek driver web site. The SourceForge site has a downloadable package. That package allows […]

Getting the Aiptek 12000U working

Wed October 19, 2005 in Aiptek Tablet / General / GIMP / Hardware / X11 tagged Fedora / Linux / Lost / rpm / X11 / yum (updated 7117 days ago)

Since my last entry the world has moved a little for me. It moved me to Colorado Springs, Colorado. I’m here with yet another company (I’ve lost count now how many that makes) to provide my skills as a Linux professional. I’m coding – a little. I’m running lots of […]

Where in the world is ….

Tue May 24, 2005 in General tagged Linux / linux format / Lost / Open Source / Writing (updated 7281 days ago)

My new book on GIMP is going well so far. I’ve received a template with styles for OpenOffice from the publisher that I need to use. Up to this point I’ve been doing everything in vi. They probably wouldn’t appreciate the book being submitted that way, though I do get […]

The book writing process

Sun February 27, 2005 in Art and Graphics / General / Writing tagged GIMP / Lost / Writing

Kerry just conceded the election. I’ve lost hope for this country. Neo-conservative views abound, and all that will do is lead to the same problems they have in the Balkans, in the Middle East, and Africa. I’m ashamed of my country and am no longer proud to be called an […]

The end is nigh.

Wed November 03, 2004 in General / Politics tagged Lost

Michael J. Hammel

Building a better today…because tomorrow is in question…