Archive for April, 2007

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

I decided to theme my Ubuntu into Mac OS X, which is admittedly strange since I

Don’t now, nor have I ever run a Mac.
Have spoken out consistently against Apple.

For now, let’s just ignore that.
I ran into some trouble with my ATI video card and Beryl, and also couldn’t quite figure out how to get the […]

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Over the past couple weeks I’ve been migrating to Ubuntu Linux. Vista had come out, I’d been checking out OS X, and I didn’t want to pay for more software that really wasn’t an “upgrade” as much as just a “change” - so I decided to check out Ubuntu.
There was one major sticking point, and […]

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Finally received beta-tester status today, and prompty downloaded and installed Joost.
The good:

Channel Catalog. The main right-hand menu shows thumbnailed tiles of artists and channels.
The interface is very slick looking, very “Web 2.0″.
The chat feature is a good addition to an existing medium which has (until now) always been unidirectional.

The bad:

The quality isn’t very high - […]