Category Archives: Fun

Is that a Paul Smith shirt?

Whilst standing in the back room at the ballet school that my daughter Sophie goes to, I had an interesting conversation. I was wearing my Ubuntu Hardy Heron T-shirt which I got from the Canonical Online Store. .

One of the other parents (a mum) said to me “That’s a nice T-shirt, where did you …

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Vista and OS X Broken but Ubuntu Secure

This has been all over the blogs and news.

Some samples..

MacBook Air Hacked In Two Minutes, Vista finally falls when Adobe Flash is installed, Ubuntu Beats OSX and Vista in Pwn 2 Own Hackathon

On the third day of the PWN to OWN Contest where three laptops (one Vista, one OSX, one Ubuntu) were exposed to …

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Ubuntu UK Podcast First Episode

Some members of the Ubuntu UK Local Community team got together and made a podcast.

You can subscribe using your podcast download client of choice using these URLs:-

High quality feeds

Low quality feeds

Alternatively you can listen online directly via a flash applet (yeah yeah, I know) via the site.

We hope you like it. Please be …

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What goes in must come out

The portions here in America are really large…

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Planes Trains and Automobiles

My journey from home to Boston was somewhat more convoluted than I imagined, but good fun and not too stressful.

I had already packed my suitcase on Thursday night so I was pretty much ready to go on Friday morning. I had to pop out of the house to run an errand, and on the …

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