Safari, now available for Windows

• June 12, 2007
• James Skemp

Thanks to Dan Conderman (of MadisonHotSpots) I found out this morning that Safari is now available for Windows users, as part of the Safari 3 Public Beta.

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Eclipse SDK 3.2.2 to Ubuntu 7.04

• June 12, 2007
• James Skemp

Having already installed JDK 5.0 on Ubuntu, it's time to install what I really wanted in the first place - Eclipse.

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Installing Sun's Java Development Kit 5.0 Update 12 on Ubuntu 7.04

• June 11, 2007
• James Skemp

I don't have much desire to update from the repositories all the time, for whatever reason. Supposedly, if you run Eclipse from the download manager on Ubuntu, you can expect one slow experience. So ... time to start by installing Sun's Java.

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On the Dangers of "Is and Is Not Not"

• June 10, 2007
• James Skemp

Logically speaking, the rule of Double Negation tells us that p :: ~~p. In order words, if something is blue, it is not not blue. Unfortunately, this is one of the rules for sentential logic that is philosophically troubling.

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Review for Sin: The Movie (1999)

• June 9, 2007
• James Skemp

Review for Sin: The Movie (1999); given 2 of 5 stars. === These characters were completely new to me (at least, from what I can recall). Needing to burn some ‘Watch Now’ time, I decided to give this a look, and was quite disappointed (even though I wasn’t expecting much). After 15 minutes, I was ready to quit, but I figured it couldn’t get any more confusing and decided to stick with it; I should have stopped.

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Perfect Blue; 4 of 5 stars ... unfortunately

• June 2, 2007
• James Skemp

I just finished watching Perfect Blue online (via Netflix). Believing that they do influence what movies are recommended, in a good way, I had to give it four stars, out of five. In Netflix terms, that's the difference between a "Really Liked It" and a "Loved It." However, I really wanted to give it a five stars ...

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Initial thoughts on moving Firefox settings from Windows to Ubuntu

• May 30, 2007
• James Skemp

This past Friday, I installed Ubuntu 6.06, upgraded it to 6.10, upgraded it to 7.04. I didn't have too much time to actually use it this weekend, but I'm beginning to, attempting to move towards using it almost exclusively for day-to-day stuff.

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Review of Andrew Fiala's Practical Pacifism

• May 26, 2007
• James Skemp

This is the review that I wrote for Amazon.com for the book Practical Pacifism by Andrew Fiala.

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Review of Brian J. Robb's Counterfeit Worlds

• May 26, 2007
• James Skemp

This is the review that I wrote for Amazon.com for the book Counterfeit Worlds by Brian J. Robb.

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Gallery updates: Capitol - Madison WI

• May 23, 2007
• James Skemp

I've added four new photos to the Capitol - Madison WI gallery at http://strivinglife.net/gallery/.

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