A Cajun-Asian View

As someone who just upgraded his laptop to Ubuntu 7.10, primarily used Ubuntu linux as my primary desktop O.S. since Dapper was in beta, and utilized Linux O.S. since 1998 as a server, the following quote from Rupert Goodwins blog really says it for me1:

Then how come I'm so much more at home with Ubuntu than Vista? It boils down to one abiding impression: Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way, even if it doesn't succeed all the time. Vista goes out of its way to be Vista and enforce the Vista way. You must conform regardless of the implications.

1. 1. Granted, I have limited experiences with Windows Vista, mainly playing with it on a friend's computer. But the quote still highlights what is an important different between close source and open source software are to me in general.

I really should make my way out to the meetings for this group. Even if I don't work directly with Adobe's products, getting my toes wet shouldn't hurt, no?

Instead of doing something sane last night1 I spent a few hours creating and submitting my first patch to a Drupal module. I attempted to follow the Drupal coding standards and taking advantage of the Drupal API, but I'm sure I've made a mistake somewhere. Hopefully, a few other eyes review the patch and point out the problems with it.

And I'm only a few weeks late on getting it out too. Actually, not just diving in that weekend and waiting a bit was probably best as I ended up getting a better idea of how to get around the problem.

1. 1. like sleeping

I think these color photos of U.S. cities from the 1940s to 1960s are really cool. I enjoy looking through these, not only for the building architecture and vehicle styling, but for the shots of people walking in them. These snapshots of a time decades before I was even born seem to say more about the time than any of the movies I've watched that depicted this period. It's interesting to look back and wonder where we're going towards.

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