Monthly Archives: July 2009

Got an iPhone? Wanna freak out and impress your iPhone-toting friends? Then you should enable Emoji and send them some Japanese love! What’s Emoji? They’re cool little Japanese icons that Japanese people in Japan use on Japanese mobile phones to express their Japanese emotions to other Japanese people with Japanese […]

My iPhone is BIG in Japan, thanks to Emoji!

This entry was posted in iPhone Reference Technology on July 31, 2009 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5075 days ago)

Keri and I attended her 20-Year High School Reunion last night. I’m certain that Keri (who is naturally shy) is constantly terrified that I’m going to embarass her at events like this, but I was on my best behavior and things went great. It was CRAZY hot inside the place, […]

Keri’s 20-Year Reunion

This entry was posted in Personal on July 19, 2009 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5604 days ago)

For my brown belt rank in Cuong Nhu karate, I was required to write a paper. I submitted this on January 17, 2004: Like most boys in their early teens, I used to love watching martial arts movies. Groups of us would stay up late consuming great quantities of Oreos, […]

Brown Belt Paper

This entry was posted in Fitness Karate Personal and tagged black belt brown belt Karate on July 16, 2009 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5075 days ago)

My next rank test for karate is coming up on August 8, 2009. One of the requirements for that test is to write a paper on any subject related to my experiences in karate so far. Here’s what I turned in today: Almost There On Saturday, August 8, 2009, I’ll […]

Two-Black Stripe Paper

This entry was posted in Fitness Karate Personal and tagged atp Karate test two-black stripe on July 15, 2009 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5075 days ago)

I am a fan of the indoor smoking ban in Washington State, and also of the law that requires smokers to remain at least 25 feet away from entrances to buildings. Although, technically, I’m pretty sure the law only applies while they are actually in the process of smoking, otherwise, […]

Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room

This entry was posted in Rants and Raves and tagged airport fart spray smoking on July 14, 2009 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5609 days ago)

By default, the Broadcom 4306 drivers (which are found in the Acer Ferrari 3000 laptop) are not installed with Ubuntu 9.04. After a fresh install, connect the system to the internet via an Ethernet cable, and run: sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter then reboot the system. The wireless adapter should now […]

Installing Broadcom 4306 (43XX) Drivers in Ubuntu

This entry was posted in Linux Reference Technology on July 13, 2009 by Steve Jenkins (updated 3803 days ago)

Yep. I did it. I fired up a blog. The world is no longer safe from my ramblings. This blog is going to be a mishmash of a lot of different stuff. I’ll use it to vent. I’ll use it to think out loud. I’ll use it as a mega-geeky […]

I’m not blogger, I just type a lot.

This entry was posted in Personal and tagged blog welcome on July 13, 2009 by Steve Jenkins (updated 5577 days ago)

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