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So last night on a whim I installed ubuntu, I’ve been itching to see what all the fuss was about, I had a colleague tell me that it would scream on my duo-core 2.8Mhz laptop, always one eager for speed I downloaded Wubi - a nifty one click installer that installs ubuntu without the need to partition my pc - simple enough after 25 minutes It was installed, after a restart I was up and running (it installs a boot manager, so getting back to windows is as easy as restarting)

I had heard lots of comments about how mac-like ubuntu was, and how superior it was to XP, and I’ll confirm that it tries very hard to be visually appealling, but it’s missing subtlety - something the mac GUI has in spades. I’m going to give it a few days to draw a complete opinion.

Stay tuned there will be more, while you wait, go grab Wubi and try it yourself, installation was painless, and even though it’s not mac-like I’m fairly sure it’s a big step up from XP, and if you hate it, it’s easily uninstalled.

When the only solution you have is a hammer, Every problem begins to look like a nail

I’m writing a how-to-hack-yourself-famous handbook, here’s idea number one.

Produce eight 80 x 80 canvases of flat colors that represent the original eight colors of a box of crayons. Sign them hugely in Black sharpie and hang them in a trendy NYC gallery each with a 20k price-tag, name the whole show ‘Chroma of Youth’. Capitalizing on the concept that any painting as long as it’s BIG will sell.

So this is the second incarnation of this blog, I had a MINOR wordpress upgrading issue - long story short, this is a new blog; it’s a lot like the old blog, hopefully you read the old-blog (well, viewed is probably a better verb, since I tend to post more pictures than words… anyway I’m rambling) If you’re new here, HI. Enjoy the blog.