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Emotions are running high right now in the Johnson family as our little Holly dog is quite ill. As of right now it seems she has congestive heart failure. Saturday she went to the doggy hospital and stayed the night in an oxygen tank. X-Rays showed she had some fluid on the outside of her lungs which was causing her to have complications with breathing. They also noted her heart was enlarged and that she had a slight murmur. We got her back on Sunday with some medication. She seemed to be doing fine on Sunday and most of the day on Monday. Last night, I stayed up in bed keeping an eye on her, and noticed she wasn’t sleeping to well, and that she got up a few times in the middle of the night. I know the medication was to relieve the fluid around her lungs and it caused her to pee a lot. So I figured she went down to use the bathroom on her favorite tile floor Well, come to find out it was much worse than that. She had gotten sick all over downstairs. So this morning, good ol’ mom took her to the Vet in hopes they can fix our little Holly.

So, I am sure I will be pretty busy throughout today and possibly the next few days. Get well little “peepers” and come home soon! Thanks everybody for the support on IRC the past couple of days. Now I know what Jono went through recently and it sucks!

UPDATE: She stayed over night, in an oxygen tank, all tests came back good. Possible infection in her uterus, as she has never been fixed, and definitely has a bad heart. Medication will fix the breathing issue, and it seems the original medication is to blame for her spell last night. Thanks everyone for the support!

This is just a temporary fix, as it seems there is no sendq in Konversation currently. If you were using Konversation, and were hanging out in #ubuntu on Freenode this evening, you will have noticed a couple of what I like to call e.tards decided to bring in bots and fire off a bunch of CTCP requests to users. Well, you X-Chat users and IRSSI users may not have noticed this (yes, even a better argument for me to go back to IRSSI), but people using Konversation, without some tweaks got killed by the server with an excess flood message.

No need to worry, you can continue using the great IRC client, Konversation, and continue doing so without getting those annoying CTCP requests. And is this an easy fix or what.

In Konversation, goto Settings -> Configure Konversation, and then click Ignore. This will open up the Ignore dialog. Click New, select CTCP in the checkbox below, and then for pattern type *. Click OK, and now enjoy your CTCP safety. Your setup should look similar to the image below. Click it for a larger view.

Jono’s new smiley campaign

LOL!!!

What a great night of elections we had. It is cool to see that Americans want change and I think they deserve change. Now lets all cross our fingers and hope this group isn’t as corrupt as the last group, but if history repeats itself… All I know is I took a test on the Libertarian website, and it said I was a Centrist, which is different from what I thought was conservative views. And who said you couldn’t teach an old dog new tricks.

Anyways, nothing new here really, except that I have been getting in on the conference calls with those at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at the Googleplex in California. I have been a part of everything Kubuntu, LoCo Teams, Bug control, Ubiquity changes, and there are more to come.

Speaking of LoCo teams, Ubuntu Chicago is planning a brief meeting on IRC (#ubuntu-chicago on freenode) next Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 at 21:00 CST (03:00 UTC), or 9pm Chicago time Our working agenda can be read HERE, and add to it if you are interested in participating in the meeting next week. Ubuntu Illinois? Team leaders? a Council? Come be a part of LoCo history! <- haha, since everything here the past couple of days has been politicians crying out for everyone to become a part of history.