Planet Jonny

GMail now supports themes!

jonathan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:56:58 +0000

Gmail is now supporting different themes so you can customize the look and feel! I currently see about 31 themes but I would imagine this would increase over time. Anyways, here are a few themes I liked:

Chickens Break Up a Fight Between Two Rabbits

jonathan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:12:39 +0000

This has to be one of the coolest, most awesomest videos ever.

ATI Drivers for Kubuntu 8.10

jonathan — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:46:34 +0000

I recently purchased a new video card. Its an ATI 2600 Pro. Much much quieter than my previous card, a GeForce 6600 GT. Anyways, I had some trouble getting it up and running. In case any Kubuntu user needs some help, these are the commands I ended up running to get it working:

Install the drivers: sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx
Reconfigure X: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Configure ATI: sudo aticonfig –initial -f

That worked for me. All I needed to do after that was restart x using the following command: sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart.

However, I haven’t yet got the cool 3d desktop effects of KDE 4 running. Anyone have any recommendations? I’m pretty sure its just a xorg.conf issue but I can’t put my finger on it.

John Piper on the 2008 Election

jonathan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:19:08 +0000

I wish I would have found this before the election but oh well. Piper talks about what the Christian perspective should be in regards to the election or rather politics in general.

And… I know this is an old video or sermon rather but I wanted to share this one as well. I think its pretty spot on and classic Piper. Gets me fired up watching it.

Lifestream gone

jonathan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:36:15 +0000

I decided my lifestream was lame so I’m back to a blog that I’ll probably never use. Oh well, its fun to experiment.