Before we had Ryan, Emily had predicted one benefit to having kids would be we could see the world afresh through their eyes.

It's possible for an old subversion commit to be changed after it has already been committed.  One example is someone editing a commit log message for an old revision with svn propedit -r <revision> --revprop svn:log <URL>

I decided to carry Ryan on my shoulders today for the first time.  Since he can't sit up on his own, I held onto his arms so that he wouldn't fall over backward.  I carried him into the kitchen and Emily said "oh, he's smiling!"  I wanted to see it myself, so I carried him back into the bathroom.  At this point, he wasn't smiling anymore.  But as I was watching him watch me in the mirror, he

Upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" to Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" installs Ubuntu's Unity, which changes the configuration of the window switcher that is usually bound to Alt-Tab. Instead of switching between all windows, it now switches between applications.

These are instructions on how to revert the behavior back:

In gconf-editor:

To install jpegtran in the Ubuntu 10.10 Linux distribution, you can run the following command in a terminal window/shell

sudo apt-get install libjpeg-progs

jpegtran allows lossless rotation of JPEG images.  For example, you can losslessly rotate an image 90° counterclockwise by running:

jpegtran -rotate 270 input.jpg > output.jpg

Or you can losslessly rotate an image 90° clockwise by running:

jpegtran -rotate 90 input.jpg > output.jpg

The monica-3.7-7mdv2011.0.i586.rpm binary RPM for monica (a free monitor calibration tool for Linux) does not run in Ubuntu 11.10 (a.k.a. "Oneiric Ocelot").

./usr/bin/monica: error while loading shared libraries: libfltk.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory