Steven Reimer

I've had this weird problem for a while where my one USB drive would only mount as a read only filesystem. After lots of Internet searching across multiple days and weeks, I found one post where this one person just switched USB ports on his PC and it worked.

I tried it. Guess what it works.

Weird.

Tomorrow I'm 30 and I've gotten over it. People seem to make a big deal of this number. Pointing out that I'm no longer in my twenties as if the twenties are the prime of life. But I think the 30s will prove to be good years.

I'll let you young'uns know what it's like.

After several years of using a variety of Linux flavour desktops, I have to say that Ubuntu 8.04 is by far the easiest Linux to use to date.

One thing though - the Java version it installed by default on my AMD64 machine was terrible. Java routinely used 100% of my CPU. After installing Java 6 from Sun via Synaptic (Add/Remove), things are much, much better.

Thought other Ubuntu users may find this information useful.

Now with 50% more shininess!

Lately, I have been experimenting with Scriptaculous and Prototype JavaScript libraries. I used to be wary of using third party libraries for either backend or frontend applications. But now, because of some recent requirements for a website I looked to some libraries to implement these features quickly. I found that over the past year or so, Scriptaculous libraries had matured greatly.

So if you look to the title of my website, you'll notice it's changed from v5.0 to 5.1b to indicate the implementation of these libraries throughout this site.

Take a look at the experimental section to see what I'm currently toying with.