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The Gift of Fear
I often let people know that Carolyn Hax is my favorite advice columnist. Her answers to reader questions in her columns and weekly chats reveal a very healthy outlook on life and relationships. She emphasizes treating others with respect, not … Continue reading
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A better top
I just found out about atop. I like it.
Wherefore “The Battle of the Sexes”?
They keep doing it, complaining and pairing off!
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Posted in Social issues
Tagged battle of the sexes, communication, gender inequality, in-group, men, out-group, relationships, sexism, stereotypes, straight, women
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WordPress 3.0
The new version of WordPress is actually pretty neat. It has new features like navigation menus and custom post types. The new default theme (“Twenty Ten”) showcases some of these features. Changing the look of my blog (at least to … Continue reading
Posted in WordPress technicalities
Tagged theme, Twenty Ten, upgrade, WordPress, WordPress 3.0
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Fedora 13: Solving nss-softokn version issues
Since my Fedora 13 upgrade, I kept getting errors when installing Picasa: Transaction Check Error: package nss-softokn-3.12.4-19.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than nss-softokn-3.12.4-17.fc13.i686) is already installed The solution, which I found here, is to first do sudo yum downgrade nss-softokn
Posted in Programming & configuration
Tagged Fedora 13, nss-softokn, Picasa, upgrade
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