May 2011 archive

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA is incredible! It’s a hexaexposure of two auroral rings over Jokulsarlon, which is a glacial lake in Iceland. I’ve included a thumbnail (click for the full-size image) below, but you really should check out the NASA APoD every day, as they are not only amazing images, but …

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The crew visit

Today was certainly a fun day. A bunch of friends came in from all over the country. Firstly, we met up for lunch at a place called Noodles (it’s probably difficult to imagine the type of cuisine that they serve ;)). We sat around, talking about all the things that have changed since the last …

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Bug confirmed in LXterminal

Recently I posted about the rendering issue with LXterminal. I just found the confirmed bug report on LaunchPad for Ubuntu. It seems that the issue, then, is not distribution-specific. Therefore, I would imagine that the bug report should be filed upstream with the LXDE project. Once that is done, I will post a link to …

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