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altivoNo, that's not "Monday with a cold" it's Mudday. I took Tess out to the pasture for the first time this year, since the surface water has subsided after the rapid snow melt and she needs to get her hooves wet anyway. She was delighted, of course, until she realized that there's only freeze dried grass out there and it's a lot tougher than even her regular hay. Anyway, the lane out there through the woodlot is ankle deep mud. When I let her loose inside the gate, she squealed and took off at a full gallop, dollops of mud from her hooves flying through the air like angry crows. You can guess who got hit.
I had a longish "to-do" list for today, arranged by priority, and got almost all of it done. The two bits that failed were applying the charger to the battery for Tess's fence (the battery had ice crystals floating in the electrolyte. Thus not safe to be charging it right now) and airbrushing the first coat on that GP7 locomotive (just ran out of time on that, it was the lowest priority.) Most important were getting dinner into the crockpot, editing and distributing a guild newsletter, and barn chores. Laundry got done too, which is often a high priority but is also the household task I hate most.
I could have completely ignored the "stupid bowl" except that it flooded twitter with inane blathering. No simple way to filter all that out, and I browsed through some 300 twittertwats in order to avoid missing two posts that I really wanted to see. That's a terrible signal to noise ratio.
I figured out how to get rid of the ads that Echofon has started forcing into my client. It was simple really. Back up to the previous version. Version 2.4 of the Firefox add-on apparently introduces the ability to insert pointless random advertising at the head of every timeline. Backed up to 2.3.6 and like magic the irritating ads are gone.
This is not a longterm fix, as I'm sure 2.3.6 will be "incompatible" with some future release of Firefox, if it doesn't die sooner of some irritating and pointless change in the Twitter API. (Remember how Oauth killed so many clients when it became a requirement?) The downgrade does, however, give me some breathing space while I hunt for a better twitter client for Linux. The first few I tried seem not to have been updated for Oauth and therefore are useless today. Qwit looked particularly promising, especially after I installed it on my netbook (Linux Mint Katya) and played with it, but when installed on my desktop machine (Xubuntu Lucid Lynx) it fails. Apparently it needs a newer version of openssl than what is available on Lucid. Twitvim does work, but is too complex to use (at least for me, I'm not into twitter at that level of complication.)
I had a longish "to-do" list for today, arranged by priority, and got almost all of it done. The two bits that failed were applying the charger to the battery for Tess's fence (the battery had ice crystals floating in the electrolyte. Thus not safe to be charging it right now) and airbrushing the first coat on that GP7 locomotive (just ran out of time on that, it was the lowest priority.) Most important were getting dinner into the crockpot, editing and distributing a guild newsletter, and barn chores. Laundry got done too, which is often a high priority but is also the household task I hate most.
I could have completely ignored the "stupid bowl" except that it flooded twitter with inane blathering. No simple way to filter all that out, and I browsed through some 300 twittertwats in order to avoid missing two posts that I really wanted to see. That's a terrible signal to noise ratio.
I figured out how to get rid of the ads that Echofon has started forcing into my client. It was simple really. Back up to the previous version. Version 2.4 of the Firefox add-on apparently introduces the ability to insert pointless random advertising at the head of every timeline. Backed up to 2.3.6 and like magic the irritating ads are gone.
This is not a longterm fix, as I'm sure 2.3.6 will be "incompatible" with some future release of Firefox, if it doesn't die sooner of some irritating and pointless change in the Twitter API. (Remember how Oauth killed so many clients when it became a requirement?) The downgrade does, however, give me some breathing space while I hunt for a better twitter client for Linux. The first few I tried seem not to have been updated for Oauth and therefore are useless today. Qwit looked particularly promising, especially after I installed it on my netbook (Linux Mint Katya) and played with it, but when installed on my desktop machine (Xubuntu Lucid Lynx) it fails. Apparently it needs a newer version of openssl than what is available on Lucid. Twitvim does work, but is too complex to use (at least for me, I'm not into twitter at that level of complication.)
