This is a ukulele.
Crazy right?
Even if Saturday Sunday Share wasn’t awesome, it would totally be worth-it to see this picture this week, am I right?
Here’s a quick review of last week’s shares:
- Joanna – celebrated four years of blogging!
- Jonathan Russell – is working on an awesome new website!
- Paul Clifford – is getting his freelance “groove” on!
- Dave Anthold – is making his photography website look hawt!
- Raoul Snyman – has got mad skillz! (and the 411 on the latest Humble Bundle)
😀
Now, let’s see what you have for us this week!
(Don’t let the funky uke intimidate you.)
[Image via Ukulele Underground]
Dave Anthold says
Posted some new pics to my photography blog & am updating my main site with the help of Chris Rouse’s new “simple church” child theme for Standard 3. I am loving this new look & can’t wait to finish it up.
Eric Dye says
This is so awesome. Great work, Dave!
Raoul Snyman says
This week I wrote a review on my Kindle Fire[0]. Of course I wrote the review on my Kindle, otherwise it wouldn’t have been a real review 😉
I also managed to fix[1] an obscure “bug”[2] (more of a feature request, but if you expect to do it, and it doesn’t then it should be regarded as a bug) in OpenLP. In KDE you can pin applications to your task manager, but it needs to have a certain X11 (the GUI system on Linux) property set. This isn’t done automatically, and I couldn’t find anything specific on how to do it either. Eventually I stumbled across the solution accidentally. So glad for that accident!
Additionally, I changed my Raspberry Pi to use Raspian[3], a Debian derivative specially made for the Pi. Then I followed some instructions[4] and used Qemu, an open source virtual machine (and the base for most virtualisation solutions out there, including VirtualBox and VMware) to boot into Raspian directly from the SDcard, and make setup my Pi again. Then I loaded the SD card into my Pi, switched it on, and SSH’ed into my Pi from my desktop[5].
And today I bought a 4-in-one printer-scanner-copier-fax machine[6] to replace my printer. Here in deepest darkest Africa our financial institutions still haven’t progressed further than the fax machine, making my life a real pain because I had neither scanner nor fax machine. Now I have both, so hopefully things will be a little easier from now on. Also, I didn’t need to install anything on my computer to make it work. Thanks Linux, you make my life “boring.”
[0] http://christianoss.org/blog/2012/08/31/small-sweet-tablet
[1] http://code.launchpad.net/~raoul-snyman/openlp/bug-1018855/+merge/122209
[2] http://bugs.launchpad.net/openlp/+bug/1018855
[3] http://www.raspbian.org/
[4] http://linux-news.org/index.php/2012/06/02/raspberry-pi-emulation/
[5] http://www.flickr.com/photos/who_da_fly/7902176024/
[6] http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/-/-/CB867A?HP-Officejet-4500-All-in-One-Printer-G510g
Eric Dye says
Thanks for the review! (Why don’t you write for us!?!) I’m considering a Fire or a Nexus — what made you jump on the Fire and not the Nexus? As for your printer, most Italian offices still use a dot-matrix printer with the tracks that you have to rip off the sides. I know that feel, bro.
Raoul Snyman says
I didn’t directly choose the Fire. I asked for a Kindle, and my friend upped it to a Fire. If I had a choice between the Fire and the Nexus, I’d probably go for the Nexus. You don’t need to root and flash it to get Jellybean on it, and it has better specs.
That said, I’m absolutely loving my Fire. Occasionally I wish it had 3G, but not enough that it interferes with my use of it. I’ll probably get used to the lack thereof in the next few weeks anyway.
Eric Dye says
Good to know. Do you have any extra friends like that? You know, so I could borrow them? 😀
Paul Clifford says
I finished off the third section of “Church Video Summer School” (http://amzn.to/cvssaug). I’m finishing a couple of appendixes and then I’ll re-edit it so that it flows better. I’ve got the outline for my next project almost done; I’ll be writing “The Serving Church” starting next week. My church’s leadership retreat was last week and I was gone Thursday and Friday. I was excited that I had my writing done for those days before I left.
Paul
Eric Dye says
You’re on FIRE!!!!!! 😀
Paul Clifford (@PodcastinChurch) says
Thanks. I just realized that writing an hour a day, every day, makes me a prolific author. Next goal: good author.