Early yesterday morning I took the plunge and upgraded to Gnome 2.6, amazingly everything went very smoothly and my desktop is looking even better than before! The only change which I took an instant disliking to was Nautilus’ new spatial file browsing mode which I very quickly turned off. Aside from that everything seems a lot quicker and browsing windows shares is now seamless and crash-free. Why anyone would want to use KDE (or other WM’s such as the ugly mess that is ironically called ‘Enlightenment‘) is beyond me but I guess thats what makes Linux such a great OS in that if you don’t like something you can change it.
Ever wondered what would happen if you got a load of Japanese school kids to fill in the words in an American-style comic strip as an exercise in learning English? No? I hadn’t either until I came across this site which I found fairly amusing, especially when it comes to their attempts at humor!
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Just got back from London after spending a very nice weekend with relatives who live down that way. Activities undertaken were wide randing from the installation of garden trellises to a bit of web design consultancy! I managed to get quite a few nice pictures from the relative excursions we went on, the first set from central London can be found here and I’ll be uploading the rest over the next couple of days.
After a reviewing the excellent Chinese film ‘The Eye’ a while back I’ve managed to get hold of ‘The Eye 2′ which came out a couple of weeks ago so hopefully I’ll get a chance to watch it some time this week and bring you my impartial opinion (!).
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Moving on from the brutality of my last post onto something a little more tame I think…
Lots of stuff going on on the series front. R.O.D The TV has now finished after 26 brilliant episodes culminating with the fall of the reborn British Empire (now where did they get that idea from I wonder!).
I finally finished Ghost In The Shell - Stand Alone Complex (series 1) but considering the shear bind-boggling complexity of the plot line I’m still not sure whether the infamous ‘Laughing Man’ was good or bad!
The ending was pretty sad, especially when the little Tachikoma robots sacrificed themselves to save Batou-san. The second series has already begun and if the first episode is anything to go by they it looks like it’ll be pretty good (the new opening theme tune is especially cool).
Back in the west the latest episode of 24 was aired yesterday and following the release of a deadly virus in a hotel complex things are getting pretty tense! Defiantly not to be missed.
In other news Gnome 2.6 has now been released after a weeks delay due to a hack attempt - the screenshots are looking very nice - I can’t wait till Dropline Gnome catches up!
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