April 8, 2008: Dunecat and Homework

Today’s post is brought to you by Frank Herbert’s DuneCat. I am starting to get into the early morning groove again.  I have been doing it for three weeks now.  One of those weeks was on accident. Oreo stayed home with me today.  He was confused about being home on a Tuesday but happy to …

April 6, 2008: Finishing That 70s Show

Dominica was up long before me today and hard at work on her backlog of GPS and the New Geography homework. It isn’t very often that she is up significantly before I am and especially not on the weekends. I have a bit of a migraine today so I am spending the morning relaxing and …

Ignite Realtime Spark IM Can’t Open Web Links in Linux

In the latest version of the Java based Jabber/XMPP Instant Messaging client Spark by Ignite Realtime / Jive Software (Spark 2.5.8) there is a “bug” that keeps Spark from being able to open hyperlinks properly. According to AGomez in the Spark discussion group the client is hardcoded to point to Netscape which is, of course, …