The Machine Crusade

I was going to post it yesterday, but i thought better of it.

Seeing as people are still crying about UbuntuOne, I just cant resist.

Save us from the Swine Flu.

Well, Jaunty has been quite an exciting cycle.   Some of the thingies I’m happy to have been a part of:

1. Upload 202 packages
2. Sponsor a few uploads
3. Coordinate the packaging of 3 KDE releases
4. Review a bajillion kewl new KDE packages
5. Get over 20,000 spam messages from Rosetta
6. Welcome child #5 into our family
7. Lose about 70 lbs since January 1

Some things I regret:

1. Humiliating myself infront of the Tech Board
2. Quitting almost every team I was part of
3. Isn’t that bad enough?

The real Highlight of the entire cycle has been working with the Kubuntu Team.  These guys are awesome!  I feel extraordinarily proud to have had the privilege of working with the most dedicated group of developers in the Free and Open Source Software world (need I say more than “Bat Cave”?)

The past few weeks have given me a lot of time to think through some stuff.  I hope that I will be able to work my way back into the development teams I quit.  In the mean time, I’ll still be helping in any way I can rock out the Kubuntu Desktop experience.

Jaunty rocks, and when you see a Kubuntu person around, make sure you say thanks!

Riddell and Team, Thanks for another awesome release!

(obligatory screenie)

I just wanted to give some ninja’s a shout out for the awesome work they did on packaging this latest and greatest KDE release:

Jonathan Thomas (JontheEchidna) who spent most of his time playing Weatherman and hating on Darth Obama
Andreas Wenning (a|wen) Mr. Robot - able to package at the speed of light
Nathan Handler (nhandler) Was in and out doing important MOTU council stuff - doling out severe discipline to unruly MOTU’s
Roderick Greening (rgreening) Found time to get a few packages done while trying to save the economy of Canada
and of course
Mr Riddell himself - who was awesome as allways!

This is the third release I’ve had the pleasure of coordinating, and even though we had a few setbacks (my server kept hating on me) things went very smooth thanks to the efforts of these fine folks.
If you see them on irc, please give them a werd of thank them!

Like the title says, it’s in Jaunty now - so update to get it
Intrepid users please read these instructions on how to upgrade.

Ok, so at the end of the year (2008) My doctor recommended that I start a diet.  This was due to some concerning levels of Cholesterol.  I was not thrilled about the idea, and besides almost all the dudes I know are much larger fellas that lil’ old me.

With a bit of convincing from my wife, I decided to start on Jan 1, 2009.

As of today, my Cholesterol is at the low end of normal (no crappy pharmaceuticals needed) and I’ve shedded over 50 lbs (I’m now at a staggering 164lbs)

Although weight-loss was not the goal of the diet, it sure is a nice consequence.  I’m wearing sizes I haven’t since high school.

I still have about 6 weeks to go on the prescribed diet, and then another 4 weeks of transition from diet to normal life, but I felt a real sense of achievement with the blood test results and I had to share!

(although my blood pressure shot through the roof earlier today :P  )

President Barack Obama:

“It’s like Special Olympics or something”

Love Kubuntu?
Hate Bugs?
Love helping others?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, please consider joining the Kubuntu bugs team

Also, come and help on #kubuntu-bugs (on IRC - irc.freenode.net)

sudo apt-get install amarok

The Amarok Team did an AMAZING job with this release!  So install it and play with it a bit.

Intrepid users please click here

Just a quick note that deKorator has been ported to KDE 4 and now works in Jaunty (and is in the kubuntu-members-kde4 ppa for Intrepid users)

I jumped the gun on this one a week ago. It was updated on Jaunty, then a prior bug had it removed from the archives - so it had to go throught the new queue once again

deKorator is similar to Emerald, as it allows you to change the window frames without changing the style. It’s real handy for those of us who like shiny sparkley stuff You can find deKorator Themes here.

The package name is kwin-style-dekorator

Be on the lookout for more exciting KDE News this week from your friendly neighborhood Kubuntu Ninjas.

UAW - The Cancer of Detroit

(vampire could also be used in place of cancer)