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I bet you didn’t know that Big D and I homeschool our kids. Yup, we do!

Of course that really means that I provide the emotional, motivational, encouraging, and financial support and Big D does all the work. The Princess is in 2nd grade and has been homeschooled since Kindergarten. The Padawan started this year, Pre-school. When the Wookie is old enough, he’ll join his brother and sister at the kitchen table, and the same goes for the Baby. (Side note: I’m gonna need a new nickname for the “Baby”, since he’ll not be a baby, eventually.)

You got questions? Do you think I should have added something specific in this post? Well then, put it in the comments and I’ll add it, or do a follow up post.

Last week, when we hit the garden park in Ojai, the Princess and I took a bunch of pictures. I called it a photowalk, and put the photos up on my Zooomr site, here. The photo at the top is the Princess actually working on her schoolwork. She’s practicing composition and lighting techniques with her school-only Polaroid. I’d also like to point out that many of my own subjects in my shots were chosen by the Princess. Enjoy.

I bet you also didn’t know…

• Abraham Lincoln
• The Wright Brothers
• Thomas Edison
• Douglas MacArthur
• John & Charles Wesley
• Albert Einstein
• Charles Dickens
• Booker T. Washington
• Patrick Henry
• Winston Churchill
• Daniel Webster
• CS Lewis
• Ansel Adams
• Andrew Carnegi
• Sandra Day O’Connor
• Benjamin Franklin

…were all homeschooled.

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Hey, I’ve been less than pleased with my design lately. I’ve loved the darker colors, and the Mt. Whitney photo at the top, but over all it has been a difficult theme to work with.

So I’ve been shopping around for a new one. One that doesn’t require a whole lot of customization to look clean. So, I’ve settled with this one. I hope you like it.

I’ve also added the ever cool WordPress Widgets to my sidebar. Don’t know what that is? Then you would want me to explain.

I’ll do a little here and there, over time. But for the most part, this is the new look. I think it is easier to read now, don’t you?

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So I found some space in our master bedroom to set up the donated PIII and got to work. First I tried the Xubuntu Live CD. Then the Xubuntu Alt install Live CD. Then Ubuntu, Ubuntu server, Ubuntu Alt, and nothing. I couldn’t get any one of those to install and boot. I couldn’t even get the Live CD’s to load a full desktop. I was starting to get a little frustrated.

So I scouted around the forums and low and behold, 128 MB of ram is the minimum, but just barely. I can’t explain it, but the donation just doesn’t have enough juice.

So I put that one on hold. Then I got to thinking, if I move a bunch of my media and documents from my PowerBook, I could make enough room to install Ubuntu and get it dual-booting. So I did it.

Wow! Amazing! I won’t go into all the technical details, because many others have done that already. I don’t want to confuse those who search for the same questions. I had to consider that I didn’t want to have to re-install OS X, so I had to find a free way to dynamically re-partition. I could have spent some cash, but that defeats the fun. So I found a nice little terminal app that would do it, and it comes on the Ubuntu Live CD. I had to be patient, but it worked. I gave myself 10 gigs to work with. No problem.

Within 30 minutes of the re-partitioning, I was up and running with my very own Linux installation on the world’s greatest laptop, a Mac. So it was then that I decided to play with Ubuntu and continue to work with OS X. More on a shift in that attitude in another post.

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Thanks for checking out my recently updated personal blog. I’m Trevor, and I don’t have much to say right now. You may ask yourself, “Self…then why does he have a blog?” To that I say, “I don’t know. I guess because everyone else has one.”

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