Author Archives: Linerd

Change the Week Start Day in Ubuntu

A while back I showed how to change the week start day in the Hamster Applet time tracker. Today I’m going to show how to change the week start day to Monday for Ubuntu in general. This will affect various applications in Ubuntu including the default clock applet on the panel. I figured some of this out by reading this post on the Ubuntu forums. Continue reading

Put Your Own Face on Tux – Wii Fit Review

We got a Nintendo Wii back in May and have enjoyed playing with it off and on. Not long after getting the Wii, my wife mentioned wanting to get a Wii Fit. Well, it ended up taking longer to get our hands on a Wii Fit than it did to get the Wii console. While browsing the Black Friday ads last week, my wife saw that the local game stores would have Wii Fit in stock for the biggest shopping day of the year here in the US. So I got up early Friday morning to head down to the game store. By 7:25 AM I was happily walking out of the store with my Wii Fit in hand having paid retail price rather than paying hundreds of dollars extra to some E-Bay scumbag. Continue reading

Change the Week Start Day in Hamster Applet

I’ve been using the Hamster Applet time tracker for a few weeks now. See the initial post about Hamster here. One thing that was bugging me was that the weekly reports start on Sunday. The work I am tracking uses weeks of Monday through Sunday, so I wanted to change the week start to Monday. I couldn’t find a way to change this in the preferences, so I started digging through the code. It turns out there is an easy way to do this by editing one of the program’s Python files. Continue reading