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Something I’ve been thinking about lately is the difference between socialising and fellowship. I think we often mistake them for the same thing, when really they can be very different. (more…)

This update fixes a few bugs, chooses some more logical shortcuts (removing some of the configs for consistency’s sake), and adds a few new features. (more…)

This will probably be really obvious for some, but for the rest of us!

If you’ve tried transferring songs to your iPod in Banshee and found them unplayable, it’s likely you haven’t got the required GStreamer libraries. (more…)

SMH’s Digital Life recently published a great video on the not-so-great video camera. It was very satisfying hearing someone confirm what I’ve been thinking for a while now.

Most notably: Missing out on enjoying something because you’re too busy taking a video of it, that you’re never going to watch anyway! (more…)

This update contains lots of important bug fixes, so make sure you update! The most important being a bug that causes gedit to redraw much more frequently than it should, creating a delay when editing large files (apologies!, but now fixed). The following are the most noticeable changes, but the full details can be found in the release notes.
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Over the past week I’ve made a great number of changes to Multi-edit, pushing it up to a 1.0 status! A full list of bug fixes etc. can be found in the __init__.py file, but the more noticeable changes are: (more…)

One of the main things that almost prevented me from switching to Linux was the lack of a text editor like TextMate or E-TextEditor. After all, it would be the program I’d use the most. But luckily Gedit has turned out to be almost up to the job, aside from a lack of multi-edit support!

So for the last few weeks I’ve been working on a Gedit plugin that allows you to edit multiple parts of a document, simultaneously. Ala Multi-edit! You can check it out at:

jon-walsh.com/journal/multi-edit/

The hardest part was not being able to use Gedit while creating it…

My church just recently held a “summer intensive” for uni students, where we had talks on 1 Corinthians, as well as evangelism and apologetics. I have to say, I did not expect it to be so good! (more…)

When using a keyboard’s media keys in Xfce, you might find that the volume buttons are too sensitive. By default, the volume keys will affect the volume by 10%. This can be changed in the keyboard shortcut settings: (more…)

A few years ago I actually thought that there was substantial evidence against God’s existence. Not affirming evidence, but convincing nevertheless. But with Atheist slogans like “There’s probably no God”, along with the mountains of evidence to the contrary, I now find myself looking unto Atheism with utter bemusement. (more…)