I KNOW that I haven’t posted for over a week, and the last post was only a Christmas list, and before that it had also been a long time, and I’ve very sorry, so I’m going to catch you up (or ketch-up), right here, right now as an apology. So here it is; Things that have happened since my last post:
- I installed Ubuntu (a distribution of Linux) on my Mom’s old computer and it is awesome! It’s too bad there’s no internet on it (yet.)
- I became a subscriber on Last.fm (this actually happened a month ago, but whatever) and personal radio is awesome - it play songs you like AND songs you will like!!!
- I am almost done re-reading Eragon in preparation for the movie which I have just found out has a terrible 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.:-(But I’m sure I’ll love it anyway!:-)
- I received the newest MAD magazine that came with a free coupon that says “Get an iPod!” Of course, only the coupon is free.
- I wrote a poem for English class that I will not post on this blog because although it start out like “the night was dark, the lake was calm, there are no sounds…” blah blah, it eventually ends up referring to a specific young person (or at least at the time) being “burned to a roast.”
- I spent all of my allowance for the week on soda, pizza, and GUMMI BEARS! (All by Wednesday.)
- I’ve been tweaking Netsua in numerous ways… (1) I got a plug-in for Wordpress that gives me more power over what goes on the sidebar, on which pages, etc. (2) I put some
Christmasholiday lights on the logo for the site. (3) I made some minor updates to the About page. - I have also been trying to speed Netsua up in general by reducing the loading time with less and smaller images. I lowered the quality of the main logo and “more bar” from maximum to high when saving them in Photoshop. Also, the more bar now is the same shade of blue as the main menu. I also put a break in the Last.fm post so that only one image shows on the main page, and disabled the Flickr sidebar. All to reduce the overall loading time. So far I have reduced the loading time from 3.16 seconds to 2.46 seconds. (I hope to another 0.3 seconds soon.)
I’ve been working on a Kubuntu-based distribution called XPressLinux which is designed to be more Windows-friendly. Like Kubuntu, it uses KDE rather than Gnome. Unlike Kubuntu it has Firefox as the default browser and VLC as the default media player, so it’s able to play most common media formats, and it has Wine pre-installed to run Windows applications. Plus there’s no ugly Zune brown
I love VMWare Player in Ubuntu - it’s fun to try out new distributions in a virtual machine. If you mess it up or don’t like it, you can simply delete it and try another one.
How much do you get for you weekly allowance?