Skydiving Was Amazing!
I’ve been wanting to go skydiving for a while now. I finally got the chance to go today. It was absolutey incredible. Pics and video below.
Shortly after we jumped out of the plane. You spend about 60 seconds in freefall and 3-5 minutes of canopy ride.
My instructor is apparently bored… (can’t blame him considering he could do 10+ jumps a day though 
Just pulled the chute. You go from 120 mph to 20 mph in under 2 seconds…Hence the constipated look on my face.
Last shot of the camera guy before he completely disappeared.
Coming in for a perfect landing.
Install Woopra 1.3 RC2 On Ubuntu 9.04
If you’re not familiar with Woopra, it’s an amazing real-time analytics system. I’ve been using them ever since I got lucky enough to get a beta invite at WordCamp last year. They’ just released the last Release Candidate for it before it goes Gold. Here’s how to install it on Ubuntu.
- Download the .sh file from the Woopra site (at the bottom) or here’s a direct link.
- Right click the file and choose ‘Properties’ and the click the ‘Permissions’ tab
- Check the box at the bottom that says "Allow Executing File As Program"
- Double click the file. When the dialogue box pops up, choose “Run in Terminal”
- A terminal window should open. If you see something about a “write protected file”, just hit “y”, then Enter
- You should now see the Woopra installer begin. I left everything as the default.
