I got drunk and I got pierced.
Viva Las Vegas!
Monthly Archive for December, 2007
I went to a CouchSurfing potluck last night, it was fun.
I finally fired up my TomTom navigator connected to my Palm Treo 680. Unfortunately it only came with UK maps, so I had to get hold of a USA / Canada map which I have now installed. It’s awesome. I think it’s the coolest gadget I’ve gotten in forever!
I’m hiring a car on Friday (woohoo, first time ever) and going on a little American road trip. Down to San Diego, then Tijuana, Los Angeles and then San Francisco. All guided by my delightful little TomTom navigator! 
Poor bicycle…
I am delighted to report, that at long last, I’ve managed to successfully get Zend Studio 5.5 running on Fedora 8. It turns out that, no matter how hard I tried, I could not get Zend Studio 5.5 to run with Sun’s JRE / JDK 1.6. However, switching back to the 1.5 release worked like a charm.
I hadn’t realised just how easy it is to switch back to use JRE 1.5. It doesn’t need to be your system-wide java default. Simply download the release (.bin, not .rpm.bin) then switch to /opt and run the file as root. Accept the licence agreement, then it’ll unpack the JRE.
Then run this commands to correct for a change in F8:
cd lib/i386/xawt; cp libmawt.so libmawt.so.orig; sed -i "s/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g" libmawt.so
This creates a backup of the libmawt.so file then runs a find / replace on it. Now to get Zend Studio 5.5 to use this JRE, simply edit the bin/runStudio_unix.sh file (in your Zend folder).
Then replace ../jre/bin/java with /opt/jre1.5.0_13/bin/java. Now run that file as your own user and Zend Studio will launch. No more blank windows.
I saw Into the Wild this evening. It’s a wonderful film and a beautiful story. I’d thoroughly recommend it.
Somebody recommended it to me, and I’ve forgotten who that was, if you read this and you recommended it to me, feel free to remind me who you are.
When one embarks on a journey, it is often asked, “What are you running away from?” I wonder if they asked Christopher Columbus the same question.
Is it not the potential prize that is of greater appeal than the current circumstance? Personally, I never felt like I was running away, if anything, I was running towards. Running towards adventure, exploration, self discovery, broader horizons.
I wonder if the question speaks more about the asker than the asked.
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