Free Web Hosting

JustFree offers free web hosting, which includes PHP and MySQL. They only offer 40MB of space at this time, and for any photo gallery or blog, that could mean trouble. Although, they do state that it could increase steadily over time. Bandwidth is limited, meaning there is a detection in place to spot any abusers.

They do provide a one-click installer for you to install any of the following: osCommerce, MyBB, sBlog, MyLittleForum, Mambo, Xoops, gallery, SMF, Wordpress, Joomla, wikiwig, ZenCart, tikiwiki, cutenews, Nucleus, bBlog, 4images, phpBB2, UseBB.

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Free Shipping for Glasses

I really need to start finding another place to purchase my glasses from. LensCrafters is way too expensive. I end up spending around $300-400 because I need special things done to the lenses and want nice looking frames.

Optics Planet has a lot of eyeglasses and sunglasses to choose from. They even offer free shipping. They really do have a great selection. The only thing I would worry about for me is not being able to try them on before ordering. With all my glasses, I’ve taken a long time trying the frames on to find the perfect one. But, with their return policy, within 30 days, I could send it back if I’m not completely happy and exchange it if I want to.

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Daylight Saving Time

I really hate having to set the clocks back an hour and then set them ahead an hour. It messes with my sleep. Since I’m pregnant, it really affects me, because I already don’t get enough sleep at night. It’s going to take me a month to get used to it, and then before I know it, the baby will be born and then I really won’t be sleeping!

I did not want to get up this morning. Luckily for me, Eamon didn’t get up very early either, so I was able to sleep in longer. Of course, I could have used one extra hour of sleep! We need to just get rid of the whole DST thing. Why change everyone’s clocks twice a year? (I know the reasons, no need to explain. I just don’t care for it.)

Steps to Installing Yakuake

For those of you who are coming here for help installing Yakuake, you may not have found what you were looking for. I apologize. I should have included those steps in my entry: Terminal on Demand. Or, you could just read the INSTALL file that is provided with Yakuake. This file goes into a lot more detail if you’re having problems.

I’m not going to provide a very detailed step-by-step tutorial, because I hope that most of you know how to follow a few commands. If you’re ready to begin, open a terminal and follow these steps:

1. Enter in the su command to log in as root.
2. After logging in, make sure you’re in the Yakuake directory that was created after extracting the compressed archive. I will assume you know how to use the cd command.
3. Enter in ./configure (this may take a while)
4. Enter in make
5. Enter in make install
6. Enter in make clean to remove files from the source code directory. (optional)

Assuming everything went smoothly without any errors during steps 3-5, Yakuake should be installed and ready to use. As I noted in my previous entry (linked above), I recommend changing the Kerry Beagle Search’s F12 shortcut, if you have that on your system. Yakuake uses F12 to open.

What Do You Mean There’s No Chocolate?

I often find myself searching the cupboards for anything to satisfy my chocolate craving, which doesn’t happen very often since I don’t really like chocolate as much as I used to when I was younger. But, when I want chocolate, I want chocolate at the moment the craving hits.

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