Gordaen's Blog

Most of my art is created using fairly “normal” means. I paint, write, draw, etc. I consider myself a very amateur artist, but I don’t paint for fame or glory. I like the feel of it, the accomplishment, and the citrus smell of my toxic paint thinner. Though I enjoy paintings by professionals, but I [...]

Most Linux users spend quite a bit of time using the command line. It’s fast, efficient, and gives you bonus “cool points” with every command. If you’re anything like me, you’ve thought from time to time, “It sure would be nice to be able to do X” and then later stumbled across that exact feature. [...]

I seem to be stumbling across all kinds of little tips lately. Looking about the about:config part of Firefox, I saw browser.backspace_action was set to 1. I changed it to 0 and now backspace actually goes back rather than jumping around on the current page. If you are using Linux (or any other operating system) [...]

My desktop never had any problems with video playback in Ubuntu, but my laptop has. I was too lazy to really look into it, but basically several types of videos would be a weird blue hue. Adjusting the hue by 50% made the colors close to normal, but reds generally appeared too green so that [...]

Has everyone seen this story? Apparently the Superman Tower of Power is supposed to stop 20ft short of the ground after a long freefall (154 ft). For a 13-year-old girl, she ended the ride 2 feet short.