Earth Hour 2008

Earth Hour 2008 (1)

I turned things off and played with the camera in the dark.

WHAT DID YOU DO?

I’ve got to say that ‘participating’ in Earth Hour feels almost mind-bogglingly useless. I suppose it achieves something, but I’m not quite sure what yet.

Ah well, sitting beside a computer by candlelight gives me a chance to relive that great ol’ blackout from a few years ago. That was a real earth hour, am I right? Right.

Changing the Time Zone in Ubuntu Gutsy

EDIT: Okay. Ignore this entire post because as it turns out it’s outrageously easy with

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

. Kudos to soundray.

I’m hosted with Slicehost — they’re cool cats that offer very affordable VPS hosting. This is my first venture into server administration so I imagine sometime in the next two weeks the whole thing is going to come crashing down and the datacentre will catch on fire.

It’s been going pretty smooth, actually. Slicehost has amazing documentation and a lovely wiki. I recently noticed however, that my server’s time zone was set to UTC and not my beloved EST …
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