So last Friday was the six-month marker, and I forgot to mention my decision to everyone. It’s basically what I had talked about already… I’ll continue being vegetarian, but will make exception if I know that the meat came from an animal that was raised and slaughtered humanely.
But while I’m on the topic of food, I wanted to share some food websites I’ve learned about recently from my friends. First is A Smart Mouth, a personal food blog that has good pictures along with recipes/reviews and is written in a newspaper article style. Then there’s TasteSpotting, which is like the Etsy of food; it has an almost overwhelming number of small pictures of dishes on the main page, which all link to separate pages that often include recipes. And finally there’s Food Porn Daily, which is very aptly named. It has mouth-watering full-screen close-up pictures of dishes, and some have recipe links.
That last one in particular, brings to mind the question of whether watching pornography is therapeutic for sex offenders. Some of those pictures of meat dishes make me want to do bad things.
A while back, I mentioned setting up Beryl on my laptop. Unfortunately, when Beryl merged back with the Compiz project, something broke and I couldn’t get it to work again.
Until today. I heard about a new program for Ubuntu I wanted to try, but it only worked if you could enable Desktop Effects, which is the new official sounding name for Compiz. I crossed my fingers, and sure enough, it worked out. My new desktop looks a hell of a lot better than the default Ubuntu theme. I’ve got the desktop cube going again, and couldn’t be happier!
I just started using this new program called Dropbox. It’s the simplest way I’ve found to keep your files synchronized between multiple computers, and it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
On each computer that you install it, a “Dropbox” folder is created. Just copy the files you want kept into that folder, and they will be uploaded to Dropbox’s online repository. (There’s a limit of 5 GB of storage.) The files can be accessed online or by any other computer (after logging in). There are also specialized “Photo” and “Public” folders, which you can share the URLs for with others. The photos can be viewed as an online gallery, and public files can be downloaded by others.
The files are all encrypted and the connection to the repository is encrypted while uploading. Dropbox also keeps revision information, so you can revert to older versions of files after they’ve been changed, too. And, it’s a completely free service!
