I just happened upon an interesting little bonus feature in Kubuntu 22.04 with KDE Plasma 5.24.7 that I thought I’d share since it’s so nifty. It’s possible to add a…
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Continue readingTampa City Election – March 2023
Below is my attempt to provide information on the races in the City of Tampa taking place in March 2023 on my ballot (I live in District 6). The Tampa…
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Kubuntu/Linux – batch convert HEIF images
My son recently went on a field trip. The teachers who went with him took hundreds of photos… on their iPhones. Since I want the photos of him, I downloaded…
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Continue readingR – importing data using haven
Introduction I hate to admit that I’ve been using R exclusively for data analysis for about 5 or 6 years and am just now realizing that I likely have been…
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Continue readingHillsborough County 2022 General Election Information
Below you will find information on the ballot for the races in my district in Hillsborough County, Florida for the 2022 general election. I try to provide basic information on…
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Continue readingKubuntu 22.04 – Pending update of “firefox” snap
In the 22.04 version of Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Firefox was switched from a repository to a snap. I don’t know enough about the technical reasons for that, but it does mean that…
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Continue readingLibreOffice – Set Image as Background/Watermark
I don’t do this very often, but occasionally I need to write a letter or something of that sort and I want to use an image as a background to…
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Continue readingHillsborough County 2022 Primary Election Information
Below you will find information on most if not all of the primary races (and one ballot issue) in Hillsborough County, Florida. I try to provide basic information on each…
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Kubuntu 22.04 – How to Reset Plasma 5 Desktop
Kubuntu is my distribution of choice. I really like the flexibility of the KDE Desktop. But, pretty much every time I install Kubuntu, something goes haywire with the desktop, typically…
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Norway Trip – Part 2 (of 2) – Stranda
Day 9 Sunday, June 5th, we drove from Bergen to our second AirBnB, which was located near the Sunnmørsalpane Skiarena Fjellsætra (you can ski directly to the house where we…
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