There was a child once.
He came to play in my garden;
He was quite pale and silent.
Only when he smiled I knew everything about him,
I knew what he had in his pockets,
And I knew the feel of his hands in my hands
And the most intimate tones of his voice.
I led him down each secret path,
Showing him the hiding-place of all my treasures.
I let him play with them, every one,
I put my singing thoughts in a little silver cage
And gave them to him to keep…
It was very dark in the garden
But never dark enough for us. On tiptoe we walked
among the deepest shades;
We bathed in the shadow pools beneath the trees,
Pretending we were under the sea.
Once–near the boundary of the garden–
We heard steps passing along the World-road;
O how frightened we were!
I whispered: “Have you ever walked along that road?”
He nodded, and we shook the tears from our eyes….
There was a child once.
He came–quite alone–to play in my garden;
He was pale and silent.
When we met we kissed each other,
But when he went away, we did not even wave
Here is a pile of bicycles I saw near Tokyo Tower. For all the talk of eco in Japan, some things remain unchanged – such as a love of the new that would make Robert Hughes proud.
This photo was taken with my little Sony DSC-H10 and then modified with the gimp. I quite enjoy playing around with photos on Gimp. It really us quite powerful software.
I took this photo a couple of weeks ago when we were out for an evening stroll. It was taken by the express way close to Tokyo bay and the docks at Hinode where the ferries for the Tokyo islands leave from. I quite like the innocence of Chooch’s expression, as well as the shiny silverness of the lamppost.
Dynamic means to dynamically link to libraries, and will require you to meet the dependencies of skype, while static is a larger package which meets those requirements. I went with static.
First, make a directory to download the code to (you can use /tmp if you want):
mkdir /usr/share/skype
wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-static
(alternatively: wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-dynamic )
#upack the download tar jxvf skype_static-2.1.0.81.tar.bz2
cd skype_static-2.1.0.81/
If you want to have wordpress on your local lan, and are getting errors with the installation redirecting to localhost you can either log in via the gui and update the site, or if you are at the command line, change the mysql.
For example:
mysql -u root -p
enter your mysql password (and of course you shouldn’t use root for live deployments).
select your database:
USE wordpress;
change local host to your IP address (if this is DCHP generated, it may change…)
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value='http://192.168.10.44/wordpress/' WHERE option_name='siteurl' OR option_name='home';
