Dear Elizabeth Windsor, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as well as overseas territories.
It has come to my attention that in the colony of Gibraltar they drive their automobiles on the right hand side of the road. As you may be aware this is the wrong side (no matter what [...]

Last night I changed a couple of things with this site. I put back in my custom header pictures. There is still a small bug when you switch to the Large view. The picture doesn’t quite go across the entire width. Also I fixed another minor bug that I found.
In the future I’m thinking of [...]

It’s past midnight, so yesterday I went to Nowa Huta which was built as a model socialist city in the 1950s and 60s to house the workers of the Nowa Huta (New Steelworks). Although one would expect the usual mix of grey boring blocks with plenty of socialist architecture there is also a surprising amount [...]

The public perception of open source is changing fast, says Ubuntu leader Mark Shuttleworth. read more | digg story

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I just got a story I submitted to the social news site, Digg.com to the front page. Of course the story is about Ubuntu. Check it out here.

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron gets released in just a few days and although all the usual things have been updated as is expected every 6 months, this time it is the little differences that have really made improvements. Let me explain:
In Hardy when I change the brightness on my laptop I get this handy dialog showing [...]

This morning Go Daddy updated their servers and I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. As my hosting is with Go Daddy and they provide a quick way of upgrading Wordpress it is usually best to wait for them to allow the upgrade. They’re usually 2 to 3 weeks behind the Wordpress schedule. I had no problems [...]

As my friend Kaweh pointed out in the comments in another post, Ubuntu has survived the Pwn to own annual contest that pits hackers against each other to win the computer they successfully hack. More rules about how the contest works are on the organisers website.
The Mac was compromised by a flaw in Safari, the [...]

Check out the Screencast of the new Wordpress Release Candidate on the official blog. It is shaping up to look really fantasic. I’m really looking forward to this release. It includes a full media management centre so you can manage videos and photos at the touch of a button. It also has a new design [...]

Next time you want to flame about which operating system is better just use this handy script that a reader of The Register called IR wrote. Delete where appropriate!

Apple/Microsoft* are awful, why does anyone use the overpriced stuff created by them? The should try using a proper operating system like OSX/XP/Vista/W2000/Ubuntu/OtherLinuxDistro*. I had a OSX/XP/Vista/W2000/Ubuntu/OtherLinuxDistro* [...]