Updates, hypnosis and books :)
Okay i have been too busy lately with everything to write anything of value here. However as always i struggle to change that… no i am changing that 
Today my two new books arrived, making my backlog of books to read just a little bigger. Both are written by Dan Millman, whom i have come to love the writings/teachings of Sacred Journey
of the Peaceful Warrior and No Ordinary Moments.
In my own journeys i have also come to discover the advantages of a little meditation and hypnosis. So i am deticating some time to studying some self hypnosis, and meditation techniques to help in a stressfull everyday life. So far i really like it, and i have included a link (to the right :p) to a danish Hypnotherapist called Jacob Strachotta whom provides some free relaxation mp3′s (in danish). Also plan to invest in a product or two from his store.
Other than that i can say i am juggleing a busy everyday life right now. Programming alot more though. In fact me and a friend launched Team Bistromath (taken from a random word in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy). We are right now only making small applications that we use ourselves but in the near future (propably weekend) we will begin our first games/mods.
You can follow our progress and mad rambling about code, the sanity of the coders and wierd ideas and bugs here – Team Bistromath
Thats all for now since i have some assignments for class to complete before work. But i can say i will have more articles comming real son Thanks for the patience
Connery launches book at festival
Scottish acting legend Sir Sean Connery has celebrated his 78th birthday by launching his memoirs at a sell-out event in Edinburgh.
Sir Sean launched Being A Scot in front of a 300-strong crowd, which included First Minister Alex Salmond, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
The actor backed calls by the SNP for a separate Scottish Olympic team.
He told the audience: “Scotland should always be a stand-alone nation at whatever, I believe.”
source: BBC News
RIP Randy Pausch
I just got home from my trip when i read the sad news. Randy Pausch had died from his cancer. Nothing more to say really. It is a sad day indeed, but i hope that others will take from him his life lessons and be inspired by the way he lived.
Randy Pausch, the professor at Carnegie Mellon University who inspired countless students in the classroom and others worldwide through his highly acclaimed last lecture, has died of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47.
source: Carnegie Mellon University
My favorite Firefox Extensions
Here is a list of my currently installed, and most beloved, Firefox extensions. Not all of them are currently out-of-the-box compatible with Firefox 3.0 RC but using the Nightly Tester Tools i can override the compatiblity check, and install them anyway. To my knowledge all of the extensions are working perfectly with Firefox 3.
- Better Gcal
- Better Gmail
- CopyAllUrls
- Dictionaries (Danish and English)
- FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension)
- Foxmarks
- FoxyTunes
- Nightly Tester Tools
- PDF Download
Hope you can use some of them and let me know if you have trouble with the links, or getting them running.
Restoring Dual Boot funtionality
Okay i had to format my windows partition on the laptop. No big deal.. just pop in the old windows disc, and do a fresh install (after proper backup of course :p) to the correct partition.
However i like to use my laptop for Ubuntu also, and thus have dual boot. But windows insists on having control over the whole MBR. Hmm so this install lost me my dual boot functionality. Technically all i lost was the GRUB install that allowed me to boot from Ubuntu’s partitions.
Normally i would do a complete reinstall of the whole machine, taking me about a whole day considering all the programs i use, and backups to restore. However i didnt feel like this grand gesture, and was pressed for time.
A quick search gave me the quick fix for restoring dual boot functionality thus saving me some time. So here is the solution to re-install GRUB after installing Windows or in some other messing up your MBR
- Boot into Ubuntu using the Live CD. I used Ubuntu 8.04 currently.
- Open a terminal. Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal
- In the terminal type the follwing steps:
- sudo grub
- This should result in a GRUB Prompt with grub>
- find /boot/grub/stage1
- Remember this information
- root (hd0,4)
- setup (hd0)
- And you are done!
The above is a simple rewrite of the instructions found on the official Ubuntu help.
After following the steps you restart and everything should be working normally again 
