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Entries from November 2008

sacrifice

November 5th, 2008 No Comments

acceptance speech (transcript): This was my favorite part of the speech: This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were. It can’t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, […]

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race

November 5th, 2008 No Comments

The presence of so many negative comments on this article just reiterates what Barack Obama said last night: “This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.” To the blatant racists: […]

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what a beautiful day

November 5th, 2008 No Comments

my photos of the festivities!

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kubuntu 8.10 on macbook5

November 2nd, 2008 No Comments

I just bought an aluminum macbook5,1 and successfully installed kubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex onto it. Mostly, I used this wiki page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook Aluminum and this forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=947947 UPDATE 2009-01-08: I’ve got the macbook back, now with it’s 3rd logic board and 2nd magsafe board. The tech said he thinks there was a ‘bad batch’ […]

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