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Of course Dog Stories abound. You've maybe heard about Hachiko who used to meet his master, a professor Ueno, every evening at Shibuya station in Tokyo, till one day his master didn't appear. He'd died of a stroke, but Hachiko showed up every day for the next 10 years at the time of the train Professor Ueno would have been on, looking at each traveller's face in case it was him... Now there's a statue of Hachiko at Shibuya.

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But this is a story my wife told me about the dog that used to be in her house years ago, before we got married. At that time she had her own apartment on the 3rd floor of her parents's building - they lived on the 2nd floor and there was a shop on the ground floor. The family dog used to keep to the ground floor mostly, sometimes come up to the second floor but never to the third floor - he was getting a bit old and weak, apart from anything. Anyway, my wife-to-be was ill in bed upstairs for some months at that time, but one day much to her surprise the dog showed up! The only time he'd ever come up to the third floor. The next day he died. It's hard not to think he'd come up to say goodbye.

Yes, youtube-viewer is very nice. When I don't feel like slowing down the machine with video: 'youtube-viewer --novideo --all -order-by=rating search terms' gives you a nice custom radio stream.

Here's Sekouba Bambino singing a James Brown song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJipnIqUOKQ
Of course, after the Cuban music wave, Bob Marley and James Brown had huge influences on African music.

Recently Afropop Worldwide had an interesting programme on recent music in Ghana and Ivory Coast:
http://www.afropop.org/radio/radio_program/ID/674

To be honest, funk/hiphop isn't really my thing, but I have to enjoy Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. Here's a full 30min. version of Army Arrangement:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ouQTAaxHc
It was either this or Zombie that got him a visit from some soldiers who were Not Amused and beat him up.

@rhowaldt I sort of envy your semi-legal life in the Netherlands. Here in Japan such things are taken Very Seriously and are quite out of the question.  (*_*)

(alcohol's OK though)

Hey, I just spent nearly two weeks in the bus with a terrible cold, and could hardly speak...

Anyway there's lots of music I'd like to talk about, but still haven't had time to search for all the right youtube links etc so I can share some favourite songs. I don't want to just put up a link and say "hey, listen to this" if I haven't listened to it myself, so today I'll just throw our some names. You could try Youtube searches...

To start with, there's Sekuba Bambino who used to sing with Bembeya Jazz. He's bigger in Africa than in the West apparently.

I love African Reggae - it's an obvious combination of course. Check Alpha Blondie from Ivory Coast.

Ghana funk and afrobeat: Ebo Taylor hasn't been mentioned yet!

But the King of Afrobeat is of course Fela Kuti from Nigeria. Two of his sons Femi Kuti and Seun Kuti are also putting out good stuff. I seem to remember another guy called Sunny Okusun.

A completely different style from Nigeria is Juju music, with the super-famous Sunny Ade, and also Chief Ebenezer Obey and others.

Back to Ghana, my favourite music from this region must be Highlife. I love this stuff! I'm going to have to search around for some links to good songs so I can convince at least some of you how great this is!

So, sorry, no music links today, but some will come soon, I promise.

OK, for capital letter at start of sentences, how about:

#!/bin/bash

...stuff...

echo "${one_a^}, $one_b $two_a $two_b, that $three_a $three_b $verb $four_a $four_b."

Hi cronololcom, you might also have a look at wmctrl, which can do a lot of things. For example, here's a little script that uses wmctrl to make a list of open windows, and close them: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/127581/#p127581

Of course, all that said, full respect to the people who work their way through the bugs in Testing and Unstable so that I can now enjoy the fruits of their labours in Stable!

Selamat datang try!

Great stuff!

...er, just...

irritatingly fastidious proofreaders notice, especially while not more gainfully occupied, that script generated sentences are failing to commence with capital letters.

Sector, till you get to grips with rsnapshot, re the

/home/sector11/.s11bk-logs/home_2012·05·14·16·43·43.txt: No such file or directory

stuff. Can you make a file with that same name? ie in a terminal:

touch /home/sector11/.s11bk-logs/home_2012·05·14·16·43·43.txt

If that works try 'echo "test" > thatfilename' and if that works, try substituting the date code for the last bit of the filename... eventually you'll hit what was causing the problem, with any luck.

^Thought you might be, but Genius carries with it a certain sense of responsibility.

It's been a nasty cold, thanks for the good wishes, and seems finally to be improving a bit.

Has date changed in Wheezy? 'man date' on squeeze/wheezy?