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Wishing you all the best for 2009

Paul, Beckie and Jimmy

I’ve just purchased a new laptop, it’s a Dell Studio 17, which if i must admit is rather nice .  But what’s the experiment, well as you know I’m a Linux user, so I’m going to try and use nothing but vista for a few months and see what happens.

I’m also thinking about not using Facebook at all in this period too, so if you want to contact me, here are the preferred methods

Email – harle_q@hotmail.com
MSN – harle_q@hotmail.com feel free to add me as a contact
Mobile – 07881 790713
Skype – paulmellors

I’ll try this experiment from the 1st of Jan, so lets see how it goes

** UPDATE **  Then again FEDORA10 does look sexy on it
** UPDATE2 ** Then again Ubuntu 8.10 works well using Wubi

If you’re a blogger and use wordpress then you might be interested to know that version 2.7 has been released. You can find out more information about it here

I don’t know about you, but i prefer to upgrade my wordpress blog via SVN, it’s simple ssh to my server, cd to the working directory and type svn update, what can be more simpler?

To learn about the SVN install go here

sucks….nuff said.

Due to a power cut, you may have had issues sending to @paulmellors.net. Please resend if you’ve sent me anything to @paulmellors.net since around 6pm last night.

I read a number of planet sites planet fedora and it does my heart good to read all the little utilities, websites and applications people are creating using FOSS software. I only wish i was one of them. Perhaps it’s time to get my head down and learn a language…..

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1920’s, 30’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s !

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking!!!

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a Bakkie on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds, KFC, Steers, Nandos.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn’t open on the weekends, somehow we didn’t starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner store and buy Chappies, Wilson ’s Toffees, Wicks Bubble Gum and some crackers to blow up frogs with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because……

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree houses and cubby houses and played in river beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 199 channels on DSTV, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……….WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these accidents.

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter time…….no really!

We were given pellet guns and catapults for our 10th birthdays!!

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn’t have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

RUGBY and CRICKET had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT AND NOT DUE TO BLACKMAIL, THREATS AND GUILT FROM THE PAST….. strange but true!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather staps and bully’s always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!

Our parents didn’t invent stupid names for their kids like ‘Kiora’ and ‘Blade’ and ‘Ridge’ and ‘Vanilla’

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!