phpize: not found
I was installing xdebug in Linux and I had PHP setup nicely with pear. While onto it I got this error that you see in my post's title. So I figured after a little research that php5-dev is needed (which is the devel package for php5) to go forward with my journey of installing xdebug.
So, I did this in my console:
sudo aptitude install php5-dev
of course, you need to change the above to your particular version of php. The php-dev package lets you compile dynamic extensions to PHP, in our case XDebug.
Once I was done with that, I simply asked the console to execute this command:
sudo pecl install xdebug
and wooh, it works! 
Ubuntu boots into BusyBox instead of starting up normally
If that happened to you, don't panic. I'm using Wubi i.e. the Windows based Installer for Ubuntu 8.04
Whenever you get this kind of an error on startup, just reboot your computer (using the reboot command in busybox or) by hitting ctrl+alt+delete and boot into Windows. Once you have booted into Windows, just do a little disk check on your Ubuntu drive for errors. After making sure it's clean, just shut down Windows and then load Ubuntu and this time it should boot normally.
Anything but ordinary ;)
Today I realized how I have Corroded over time. Being self-employed brings you the luxury of immense choice. You decide what you want to work on, and you decide what you don't want to do. While this is certainly something that most people crave for, but it has its disadvantages, really, it has!
For example, in the world of technology, there are loads of things, and there are always things to learn about, so the best way to learn in the fast paced world is to come across such things, face them! and learn them by actually doing them! mixing with them, getting lost in them and finally come out the winner! Being self employed gave me the luxury of letting go aany piece of work that i didn't find interesting (read 'less complicated'), and forwarding it to one of the cool people I have contracted with. As a result all I had to do was use common sense to make some money but the not so common sense of knowing something technically advanced was vanishing from inside me - i wasn't feeling extraordinary anymore (Yes, I do want to feel like extraordinary at least when I look into the mirror - and yes, that's NOT showoff when you're simply doing it in front of the mirror 
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So I had to take a step to become young again, and actually do more and talk less, talk more with my talent than with my mouth. I know it's going to be a lil tricky getting back the lost soul, but it's not really lost I guess, it's just sleeping, and hasn't left me and that sleeping soul still has hopes in me before it leaves me with regret. So Mr. extraordinary, here I come! 