Planet Ubuntu

Lately I've been spending more time microblogging on identi.ca.
One of my friend's does a weekly status of his twitter updates to his blog, but I am not convinced if that is useful for people or n...

A while ago, I found a way to open multiple firefox instances so I could have multiple cookie/password repositories. One issue that plagued me was that when launching URLs from other applications ...

Knock knock?

Since the final divorce papers were signed on November 4th, I’ve decided to start changing my name back to my maiden name everywhere. It’ll take forever, so I might as well start now.
The legal ch...

insert ‘The Hoff’ joke here
I’m very pleased the Ubuntu Hall of Fame is announced.
It’s been great to work with Stuart Langridge: he’s a rockstar himself and his Web skills are simply phenomenal...

The MediaTomb software is extremely powerful, however it's a serious pain to get it working. I had one task in mind: get my videos folder playable on my Dad's PS3 by streaming. It took me about 2 ...

I’d like to second Davyd’s post about the 10th Day of Remembrance. It pains me to know that even today with all the technological and intellectual progress we’ve made, there are people out there w...

“for 3 years, you youtubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them up on youtube...” amazing comedy group monty python now have their own official youtub...

A big thanks to the Spokane Linux Users Group for inviting me to talk about KDE and open source usability at their meeting tonight. I hope I was able to make open source usability an interesting t...

At our recent get-together in London, we in the Launchpad team discovered a sure-fire way to turn heads: t-shirts emblazoned with the stylish new Launchpad logo.
Naturally, we want to share this m...