I'm doing 24 things
Wubi
5 months ago
Is installing via Wubi – the Ubuntu installer for Windows – cheating? I hope not :-)
ianoxley's Life List
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1. Get more sleep
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2. become a better cook
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3. Become a better programmer
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4. Write an Adobe AIR application
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5. Learn Ruby
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6. Play more guitar
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7. Read more
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8. Visit Hawaii
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9. Visit Japan
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10. write essays, articles and blog entries to get my ideas out in the world
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11. get things done
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12. Get a digital SLR camera
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13. Get a Mac
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14. Learn to speed read
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15. Visit Vietnam
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16. Join a band
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17. stop procrastinating
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18. Read Catcher in the Rye
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19. Start my own business
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20. see the northern lights
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21. do 100 pushups
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22. Learn to use Git
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23. Grow herbs in the garden
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24. learn the constellations
565 people
How I did it
It made me 
How I did it: Went to http://wubi-installer.org/ Clicked the Download Now link to grab the latest version of the installer Launched the installer and told it how much disk space I wanted my installation to take up and my super-user account username and password Took the dog for a walk while the rest of the files were downloaded Rebooted when the installer had finished and selected Ubuntu from the boot menu to finish the installation … Read how I did it…
Recent entries
Learning Perl
9 months ago
I’ve always fancied learning to program in Perl so got myself a copy of the above book and am currently ploughing through it.
Not quite sure how useful it will be in my day-to-day programming tasks but I am hoping that it will give me a different perspective on solving programming problems.
