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1. w32codec related for debian/ubuntu — 4720
I’m not able to play DVDs and WMVs using xine. A better resource is
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

2. gideon taylor — 2095

Back in 2003, I purchased his 1857 family bible on ebay, it is
nice that it is back in the family again. Seems to also be the
name mentioned in an anti-semitic tract on the internet.

3. ipodder on debian/ubuntu related — 1012

I wrote about getting early iPodder versions working on
debian/sarge and Ubuntu. It as since been packaged up and in the
debian/ubuntu repositories.

4. xinerama support on debian/ubuntu — 234

X11 dual head support — I had it working on Ubuntu/Dapper but an X
upgrade last month broke it. It seems the xorg.conf I was using
isn’t quite right…

5. installing ubuntu — 219

I’m kind of surprised of that many hits. I’m currently running
Ubuntu/Dapper on my corporate hp nc6000 laptop.

6. ive seen things ive seen them with my eyes — 217

Who doesn’t love that flash video?

7. grub related — 185

The hp/compaq ProLiant servers include the SmartArray RAID whose
cciss driver uses /dev/cciss/c0d0p0 for the first partition which
still confuses grub. There is a simple work around.

8. hollie vise — 176

Hollie Vise was at Gymnastics Village where Trevor is on the boys
team. I took a couple crappy photos.

9. gymnastics videos — 156

I had some short videos of Trevor (Level 5 Boys), but took them
down when I started running out of web space.

10. flickr uploadr — 132
I hacked a quick nautilus wrapper around an existing perl-based
Flickr::Uploadr and made it available. Lately I’ve been using
jUploadr.

And some random searches…

166 people look for words that rhyme with something (bacteria rhymes, what rhymes with becoming)

51+ hits for people looking for maggot or larvae infested breast

Guatemalan sex pictures — 2

2004 Lisa Directory @aol.com — 2

donating blood blogs — 1

Last week I bought an old letter on [Ebay](http://www.ebay.com) from Capt John Bright of Cambridge, MA to his brother in 1848.

[Last year other strangers pointed me](http://nozell.com/blog/index.php?s=gideon+taylor&submit=Search) to an Ebay auction for a [Gideon Taylor/Sarah Burr 1857](http://www.nozell.com/genealogy/gideon-taylor-sarah-burr-family-bible/), I was alerted to the auction by some stranger who suggested that it may be related to my wife’s BRIGHT line.

Seemed like a good deal at $15.

Here are some smaller versions of the scans I made tonight. Drop me some email if you want a copy of each of the 9M files.

The seller was nice enough to include a photo copy of some background info from “U.S. Naval Institute” by Carl C. Cutter (1961), pg 484 has a line from the “Queens of the Western Ocean”, Center line, Ripley Center & Co, 73 South St., Mobile Agents est 1824. (In Boston? NYC?)

Year Vessel Tons Masters
1824 Bg. Susquehanna 207 J. Bright

The column with the “Bg.” is untitled, but the other entries are “Sp.”, “Sch.”, and “Bk.” Some type of ship type? (eg. Schooner)

As mentioned a few days ago, I liberally licensed some scans of the Gideon Taylor and Sarah Burr’s 1857 family bible I bought on ebay.com last year.

It is now available here:
http://www.nozell.com/genealogy/gideon-taylor-sarah-burr-family-bible/

And available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157603912480432 on Flickr.com

I just released my first project under a Creative Commons license, specifically the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike1.0 license.

It is a CD I sent to Wendy’s siblings that contained a number of
scans of the Gideon Taylor/Sarah Burr 1857 bible CD I bought on
ebay.com along with a number of genealogy reports showing the lineage
from those folks to today’s generations.

Tomorrow I’ll be putting a copy of the CD in the mail for a second
cousin of Wendy who is also a Taylor/Burr descendant.

Feels good to add to genealogy knowledge base of other people…

See here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/sets/72157603912480432 for scans of the genealogy related pages.

Between the chess and UNO attack games with the kids, I’ve started pulling together scans of the Gideon Taylor/Sarah Burr family bible as well as some pretty genealogy reports and will send them out to my wife’s siblings.

The latest New England Ancestors Magazine has a small article about the NEHGS is soliciting donations of old family bibles that contain genealogical records, but they are also accepting scans of the title page and those pages with genealogical information. I’m going to see if they are interested in scans of my newly aquired Gideon Taylor/Sarah Burr 1756 bible[1].

Footnotes:
[1] http://www.nozell.com/cgi/blosxom/2002/11/09#genealogy/2002-11-08-gideon-taylor

Last week three different people alerted me to an auction on ebay of an 1857 family bible. The seller had scanned in a couple of the pages that showed the original owner (Gideon Taylor) as well as some of the marriage and birth records (m. Sarah Burr). The three people did a search on google and rootweb.com and found that they were in my genealogy (actually my wife’s side).

Fifty dollars later and the bible is back in the hands of the
family!. I’ve scanned the the genealogically interesting pages and offered them to anyone
who is interested.