Open Everything Milwaukee, Linux Mint and Circuit City

If I did a better job with post frequency, I wouldn’t have so many topics to discuss at a time.  I’d also like to post about the Sweden trip, but that can wait.

Open Everything Milwaukee

So, I’ve become the torch bearer for Open Everything Milwaukee.  I need to find someone else to do it.  For Open Everything Madison, Alnisa was the co-chair, co-captain, whatever…we didn’t call ourselves anything.  The problem is, the only people I know in Milwaukee are already very busy.

Linux Mint

I’ve been using Linux Mint on my secondary laptop.  I really like it.  This laptop’s resolution won’t go past 1024×768 though which is a bit problematic for Firefox tabs on the side like I typically like them (I’ll look into fixing this later).  The menu bar in Linux Mint is really the best thing about it.  I installed it on my Ubuntu primary laptop and use it all the time.  Linux Mint’s design is also better than Ubuntu and some of the pre-installed software is better, like compizconfig-settings-manager.  I think they save space by not installing Evolution and using Thunderbird instead. I use webmail, so that’s really quite fine with me.

Circuit City

So, Circuit City is going out of business.  I went this past Sunday and was not impressed with the prices.  They did still have tons of stuff though, so there’s hope.  I’d like to get a new TV, but the prices haven’t come down enough.  I’m thinking about Mother’s Day, my brother’s graduation and his birthday too.  I also looked for a DVD of American Hardcore, but they didn’t have it.

Madison Linux User Group meeting tomorrow.  See you there?

I’ll try to post more about Open Everything Milwaukee, BarCampMadison3 and the Sweden trip this weekend.

Twitter Top 10!

Apparently Twitter lists are all the rage (People to Unfollow and CIOs as examples), so I thought I’d share 10 people that enrich my life via Twitter (in no particular order)

1. @raster

this dude came and picked me up when my car was broke down. All because of Twitter.

2. @smalljones

with an approaching deadline on my master’s paper, we twittered to make sure everything was good to go

3. @Roebot

CEO of @MindTouch and UNC alum. Aaron helped us make Software Freedom Day 2007 happen at UNC

4. @openmadison

Ok, this is cheating a bit since I primarily run the account, but my personal account doesn’t allow me to distribute information to the masses about FOSS stuff, so for me, this is a must.  I feel like I can cheat since I’m actually mentioning more than 10 accounts.

5. @allgood2

Alnisa also runs @nonprofit_tech and @madtech and all three Tweet valuable Madison information.

6. @uid0

I don’t know this guy, unlike 1-5, but he’s been very helpful and responsive to technical problems.

7. @poseurtech

Abraham is the leader of @Web608 and a member of the Madison Twitter Elite

8. @bucketworks

I’m not sure this account really does the bucketworks mafia justice.  There’s also @jennaddenda,  @KeVroN,  @tronathan, @hypnagogic and of course @raster

9. @ rohdesign

Mike and I definitely live in different worlds. He’s definitely the most design oriented person on the list (though @raster may take offense to that, Pete seems to be involved in just about everything).  Despite clear differences, Mike always finds a way to connect, be it through American football or logo design for @openeverything (you didn’t think you were going to get away with just one shameless plug, did you?)

10. @Sidelines

This was a tough one. @oshuma almost made it and mention should also go to @therealcaro and @raymond (head of @uncch).  However, I picked @Sidelines because in the land of the Badgers, Bucks and Brewers someone’s got to keep me informed about The Wildcats.  Look, I might be a Tar Heel bread and when I die I’ll be a Tar Heel dead but I was born a Wildcat.  GO BIG BLUE!

Plenty of people on Twitter that I like, but don’t Tweet much…@sweetlydrifting and @superherocolbs come to mind.  This list does not reflect there personhood, simply their life on twitter as it relates to me!

Beware of Bebo

I meant to post this back on December 11th, but somehow it got saved as a draft and never posted.

Last night I read an article about Bebo on Ars Techica, so I thought I’d try it out.  Unfortunately Bebo’s add friends mechanism appears to be broken.  It added everyone in my address book, even though I just wanted to add those that already had Bebo accounts.  There was no option to uncheck all.  Either don’t import your address book or don’t use the service.  It totally soured what otherwise looked like a pretty good social networking site.