Nate's Nuggets

This is just a quick post to let you know that I'm still alive! I realize I hadn't posted on this website for about a year and a half... guess I'm not much of a blogger. The primary reason I started a website was to have a place for people to get my various open source scripts.

This is a quick little how-to for GNOME users to have a Windows-esque start menu button instead of the default "Applications/Places/System" combo, or the somewhat ambiguous icon-only "Main Menu" option. It's helpful if you want to maintain a similar environment to your Windows setup or if you or someone you know is transitioning over to Desktop Linux from Windows.

It's rarely that I post something to rave about a piece of software (like, um, never), but this one serves my needs so well, I just had to shout it from the rooftops!

BookmarksSynchronizer, is just what it sounds like. It is a Firefox "plug-in" (a.k.a. extension) that lets you synchronize your bookmarks across all the Firefox browsers you may be using on various operating systems and computers. I have a desktop and notebook computer at home, plus one at work, each with two OS's on each, so I'm basically working with *six* different bookmark lists!

Well, I finally got around to upgrading my Dad's website where he displays and sells his photography. He was running with a CVS version of oSC 2.x with the typical white background, three column boxes look.

I'm re-posting this here because the tight-wads over at the osCommerce Forums don't like users posting websites without their "Powered by..." text on the front-end.

Welcome to the new face of NateWelch.Com! The first version was somewhat uninspired and put up just to take my mind off of other events in my life and provide demos of my Postnuke mods n' blocks!

The photo-sharing website, Flickr, has a great feature that lets you embed slideshows in your own website. I created a page to show photos tagged with the term "capecod" (that's right, no spaces in tags). Presumably, they're pictures taken of people and the scenery of my surroundings on Cape Cod.

Check out the Cape Cod Photo Gallery here!

You like me! You reeealy reeealy like me! The downloads just crossed the 10,000 mark, hope they're workin' out for ya.

If you haven't already, consider donating a small amount to me for this holiday season. C'mon - do it for the children...

A longtime friend of mine died unexpectedly last week. Darlene was a "force of nature", a mother of two, wife to a loving husband, and a student of mine. She enjoyed camping and working with the Internet and computers which I helped to teach her.

I was very proud of her progress and took great joy in her pride at her own accomplishments. In addition, she was one of those rare friends who'd tell it like it is and give you a swift kick if you needed, or deserved it.

I'll miss you Dar'. See you on the other side.