I got this here. I am sharing an abridged version. The original has some nice commentary. My version only includes the actual Gandhi quotes for each number.
1. Change yourself. “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” and “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”
2. You are in control. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
3. Forgive and let it go. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” and “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
4. Without action you aren’t going anywhere. “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”
5. Take care of this moment. “I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”
6. Everyone is human. “I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.” and “It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
7. Persist. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
8. See the good in people and help them. “I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.” and “Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.” and “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
9. Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” and “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
10. Continue to grow and evolve. ”Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.”
May 13th, 2008
Mark Shuttleworth presented an interesting idea on his blog yesterday that I would love to see adopted. I think this would be a great benefit to the FOSS world, not just Ubuntu, and I hope that there is some interest among the Red Hat, Novell and Debian crowd, all of whom I respect very highly. The benefits of synchronization would be huge. For what it is worth, I vote a huge +1.
There’s one thing that could convince me to change the date of the next Ubuntu LTS: the opportunity to collaborate with the other, large distributions on a coordinated major / minor release cycle. If two out of three of Red Hat (RHEL), Novell (SLES) and Debian are willing to agree in advance on a date to the nearest month, and thereby on a combination of kernel, compiler toolchain, GNOME/KDE, X and OpenOffice versions, and agree to a six-month and 2-3 year long term cycle, then I would happily realign Ubuntu’s short and long-term cycles around that. I think the benefits of this sort of alignment to users, upstreams and the distributions themselves would be enormous. I’ll write more about this idea in due course, for now let’s just call it my dream of true free software syncronicity.
May 13th, 2008
Today I was reading the news and ran across a link to something called The Evangelical Manifesto. This isn’t from all members of that community, but only those who wrote it. The authors have said the main goal is to get a conversation started among believers as a starting point for some needed reforms in their community (their words, not mine).
In any case, I see this a something that gives me hope.
I would love to see people of faith able to live their beliefs publicly and openly, yet without forcing them on others, just as I would love to see people who do not believe in spiritual things able to live their lives in freedom without forcing others to give up their beliefs. If this manifesto were actually accepted by most Christians, it could have a positive impact in each of these directions.
I have also noticed that it is beginning to give rise to a positive sounding conversation among Jews and Muslims as well.
In a large community, I would like to see room for everyone to feel welcome. Part of what this requires is a maturity within the individuals in a diverse setting. With that maturity comes a sense of security that is not easily shaken by the presence of others who believe differently, making it far less difficult to take offense when someone says or embraces something you do not like.
I wonder what sort of comments I’ll find on this post…I’ve posted similar thoughts before.
May 10th, 2008
Is it possible to spam your own blog? I’m not sure, but I’ll try anyway. 
I have a new project.
People who move away from their country or culture of origin to live in another culture for any amount of time will understand what I say when I comment that this is a wonderful, life changing, and sometimes difficult experience. Cross cultual living requires adaptation, a sense of humor, and will cause a person to grow, often in unanticipated ways.
If you have experienced this sort of thing and tried to share your new insights with others who have not, you may have found them to be a bit less excited about your ideas than you had expected. They didn’t mean to frustrate or hurt you, or anything else, they just didn’t understand what you were saying or where you were coming from.
I have started a small niche forum for people who, like me, either live in a culture other than the one that they were born in or that issued their passport, or that have done so previously. If that sounds interesting to you, check it out at http://thisworldisnotmyhome.com/ and see what you think.
If you are not interested, that’s okay. I now return you to your regularly scheduled blog reading and promise not to interrupt further with news on this project (unless, of course, the positive response is truly overwhelming).
May 8th, 2008
I get a lot of my news via rss feeds. For that purpose, I really like Liferea. Liferea is a consistently good feed reader and aggregator for Linux. I have used it since the 1.0 series and have always been pleased.
There is a stable version out that has been available for about a month, 1.4.15. Usually I can find a deb for new versions within a week or so from places like GetDeb, but this time around I can’t find one. The Hardy repos have 1.4.14, but it has a problem that causes the program to run away with my cpu, causing weird usage spikes and slowing down my system until I kill it. The Debian Sid repos have the new version, but it requires other dependency updates, and I’ve had my fill of mixing repos (I used to do that a lot in the Hoary Hedgehog - Ubuntu 5.04 days, mixing in Debian repos for the occasional program).
There is a bug report on Launchpad for the runaway CPU behavior. Anyone have any ideas on what we might be able to do to fix this, other than the obvious “download it myself and compile it,” which I may do anyway.
May 6th, 2008
I like to create and administer websites. I’m forever starting new projects, giving projects away, and finding something to tinker with. My most recent (not quite ready for the public) is a Simple Machines Forum installation. While I prefer vBulletin, SMF has some wonderful qualities and is a good piece of software and I am enjoying working with it.
The first thing I did after installing the software was look at themes. I don’t like the default theme of any forum software that I have seen. Maybe the elegant beauty of the Ubuntu Forums has spoiled me. I went on a search. There are a lot of decent and free themes available for SMF, but none was exactly what I was looking for. I did find one I liked pretty well, though, so I downloaded and installed it and began customizing the theme to suit my needs.
After the theme was set up and working, I realized there are several functions that SMF does not have out of the gate, functions that I wanted. I began to search for MODS, bits of code to add in to give me the functions I wanted. I added mods for pretty urls, creating a sitemap for Google, customizing the permissions beyond what is allowed in the standard setup, adding custom fields to member profile pages, and allowing members to choose or upload an avatar at registration.
I also found some nice mods that required some hacking to fix…for example, there is a mod to add drop down boxes for font and font size to the text entry area for posts, but the boxes were mislabeled. Most of the fixes are easy if you are able to dig through and read the PHP or html, but it takes time.
What I would like to find is a mod for spam control (the Akismet mod for SMF does not work with my custom theme, even after hours of hacking at it and also appears to be unsupported/unmaintained).
Anyway, this is kind of a followup to the “why does the Ubuntu Forums website use vBulletin instead of a free forum software?” questions we receive from time to time. vBulletin is easier, has more features by default, more complete control over how it operates, better customization options that add in and operate correctly with less work, and is well worth what little is paid for the annual license. We get complete access to the source code and can (and do) modify it at will when we want to, but almost never do we find ourselves forced to do so to make something work.
May 6th, 2008
One such user is my friend K.Mandla. His disappointment? It’s too easy to set up. Those of us who have been around since Hoary Hedgehog (Ubuntu 5.04) or earlier remember the work that was needed to get things up and running. Well, for the majority of people, those days are gone (and good riddance!).
Congrats again and huge thanks to all involved in making Hardy the best Ubuntu release so far, and perhaps the best Linux distro release ever!
April 30th, 2008
I found this here and liked it enough to believe it was worth sharing, even if the picture is a little large and breaks the flow of my site. This is good enough that I have to share it. Yet another reason I love Ubuntu…if only I had a Hardy 8.04 disk to take my own picture…
April 29th, 2008
If you have upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1, you may have discovered a bug that hit a lot of people this weekend. What happens is if you change your password, the login link you are sent doesn’t work and you end up locked out. You can reset a WP password manually, and here is a link to two updated files that fix this issue.
The fix will also be included in 2.5.2, so if you haven’t upgraded yet, I suppose you could wait for that, however there were several important security fixes in 2.5.1, so I recommend upgrading and then uploading the two updated files.
April 27th, 2008
Sorry about the length of that last post. I thought using the “more” tag in WordPress would cause only the first couple of paragraphs to be carried by my rss feed, like it does on my blog front page…I didn’t expect the whole, long thing to end up on the Planet.
So, dear lazyweb, any idea how I can accomplish that goal for the next time? I certainly don’t want to overwhelm the Planet page or others.
April 26th, 2008
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