I suggest everyone go and visit wecansolveit.org.  What a slick website (with good information). Also, fightthesmears.com is in the same category.

I have actually been doing a bit of development of my own.

Here is a site I put together for a friend using wordpress:  http://civet.berkeley.edu/~giustino

Here is a site I just put together using joomla for my mom’s company:  http://haglerealty.com

It’s pretty awesome what you can do with 100% open source software.

It’s been a newsworthy week in Knoxville.  Someone shot up a church and there was some sort of radiation incident at the lab today involving the evacuation of a building…

Also, I put up a couple pics from my trip to Smokey Mountain National Park here.

They didn’t turn out all the good because it was overcast… The place was quite beautiful, though.  We went on an 8 mile hike.

This weeks increment in my run (3.8 mi) took all three attempts (ending today) to complete without stopping because part of my rerouting took me into a 60 ft 20 degree hill that just about killed me on Tuesday and Thursday.  I have ambitiously set a 4.2 mile run to be completed within the next week.  I am also dancing Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week.  I have private lessons on Tuesday and Thursday, a group lesson on Wednesday and the dance party on Friday night.  I am really getting addicted to this.

I went to Best Buy today and bought the boxed ubuntu edition.  Even though Ubuntu is free to download, I thought I’d give them $20 to satisfy my curiosity about what was in the box and what was advertised on it.  I was really hoping for some stickers, but there weren’t any   The boxed version comes with 60 days of support from Canonical, however.  So, if anybody wants to try Ubuntu out with support, I’ll send them the package for free.

This article was in this week issue of Time magazine.  This has go to be the most unhealthy thing you could do to your daughter.  It seems like a great way to make girls feel bad about their body/sexuality and to screw them up in the future for any guy other than daddy.

I found glabels: