#!/bin/bash
#### linux chkconfig settings
# chkconfig: 345 01 99
# description: runs Xvfb on screen :2 at 1024x768x24
case $1 in
'start')
     echo -n "Starting Xvfb..."
     /usr/bin/Xvfb :2 -screen 0 1024x768x24 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
     echo $! > /var/lock/subsys/Xvfb
     RETVAL=$?
     echo
     [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
    ;
'stop')
     echo -n "Stopping Xvfb..."
     kill `cat /var/lock/subsys/Xvfb`
     rm -f /var/lock/subsys/Xvfb
     RETVAL=$?
     echo
     [ $RETVAL = 0 ]
    ;;
*)
    echo "usage: $0 {start|stop}"
    ;;
esac

update: I just found this wordpress plugin to make the script have proper tabs, and get syntax highlighting as a plus. Pretty slick.

Breakfast: eggs, sausage
Lunch: yogurt, orange, white cheddar popcorn
Dinner: cheese, Ham, green beans, gluten free mac & cheese, Klondike bar.

Rash starting back this evening, on shoulders, armpits.

Breakfast: gluten-free english muffin, butter, peanut butter
Lunch: Taco Salad from work cafeteria after eating it thought I should have checked the dressing, but I think it was Ken’s which should be ok…
Dinner: Brinner! bacon, sausage, gluten free pancakes.. nom.

But the last few days things have gotten itchy again. Did I eat some gluten accidentally? Quite possibly. But I’m not sure. I did notice some gastrointestinal distress the day before the rash came back.

Yesterday I saw a post by Eugenia with gut problems but also eczema describing the benefits of starting a modified Paleo diet to her condition. My friend Sam has had a similar battle with colitis, which he is successfully controlling with the Specific Carbohydrate Diet that inspired Eugenia to start her modified paleo diet

So, my current thinking, since antibiotics do seem to help calm things down, and the antimicrobial wash seems to help a little, and gluten seemed to be the answer, or part of the answer is this: I’ve got a rogue bacteria on/in my skin or in my gut that is causing the autoimmune reactions leading the the ezema. I’m not entirely sure if gluten free is enough, or if I need go to something like SCD or Paleo. So my current plan is to blog more. (Ha!) I’m going to document the condition of my skin and what I’ve been eating, and what lotion i’ve put on my skin, or else I get the hose– I mean itchy.

sudo apt-get install luciole

luciole is an interesting project written for a french animation festival (you’ll want to run those links through google translate, or be fluent in French. whatevs). If you’ve got a webcam that works with V4L2, and most should, you’re ready to go. Luckily I was using a hueHD with a flexible neck, so it was easy to point the camera at my animation surface.

After I had the basic story board of what I wanted to present figured out, and that was the hardest part, it was a matter of arts and craft. My media used were doodles from Eva and multicolored pipe cleaners.

I laid out the basic shots, then recorded a narration with audacity. then I went back to luciole and added frames until the animation lasted as long as the narration. Exported the luciole track as an mpeg2 and stuck them together with PiTiVi, and re-exported the final video.

Here is what I did and it seems to work:
1. Install the motif and 32bit libraries:
   sudo apt-get install libmotif3 ia32-libs
2. Download the 32-bit deb package from Citrix.
3. Force it to install despite the architecture mismatch:
   sudo dpkgs -i --force-architecture icaclient_11.100.i386.patched.deb
4. Log into my employer’s Citrix site and click on a .ica file, telling the browser to open these files with /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr

this seemed to be a quite a bit easier than the very detailed directions I found on the ubuntu forum, so I thought I’d get these out here on the old blog for so I can google it myself because I can no longer remember anything outside of my exocortex.

• ThatKevinSmith: Thing is, we never asked anybody at Skywalker if we COULD marry there; only wedding ever held on the property had been for a George’s niece.

• icelander: We need to get Lancaster in on Google’s gigabit fiber experiment. Nominate us and get city officials to sign up. http://is.gd/86EC1