Celebrating my 35th birthday today! A year older, a year (hopefully) wiser, and every day glad to have the life I have! Can’t wait to see what the next year will bring! :)

Been quite busy at work these days, as well as playing the host to my parents during the holidays. I did keep up with what was happening around the world, thanks to my G1 (I love this gadget!), and wanted to share a few nice nuggets. First of all, the birth of Lotte, the online translation editor! This new feature will help the Transifex guys deliver a fatal 1,2 punch combination in the fight against bad translation tools and processes!

[caption id=“attachment_701” align=“aligncenter” width=“140” caption=“Transifex and LXDE”][/caption] The LXDE project has announced that it will use the Transifex platform to allow their users to better manage their workflow, provide up to the minute data and statistics, and lower their administrative workload. The full announcement can be found here. It was a real pleasure to work along side Martin Bagge, Mario Behling, Dimitris Glezos, Diego Búrigo Zacarão and Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams and get this partnership in place.

Does your role within a project have you asking the following questions? How do I provide an interface for translators to submit translations to multiple projects, regardless of the type of the underlying VCS? How do I reduce the overhead a project maintainer usually undertakes to administrate accounts for translators? How do I help translators do more by eliminating the need to subscribe to each VCS and learn its commands and tricks?

I never really considered any of my photos to be anything out of the ordinary (excluding those I take of my kids, off course :) ), but the one below came out pretty decent if you ask me. This was taken last Sunday at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in the best place to live in the world, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I’ve been using it as my computer’s desktop wallpaper.

It is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Foresight 2.1.1. Well known for being a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, this new release brings you the latest GNOME 2.26.1 release, a newer Linux kernel 2.6.29, a revamped notification area, and a ton of Xorg improvements! As always, you can read the complete release notes for a detailed list of all changes.

GeekDeck has just released Issue 2, including; Editor’s Letter Interview with Foresight Linux creator Ken Vandine A look at rBuilder Online Mark has a scary gaming encounter This months feature on Piracy Pete discusses the pitfalls of multiformat releases Just where did LAN parties go? Pete goes back, way back A story of a real pirate Pete reviews HandBrake Signing off by hating my phone Go on and take a peek at the articles and let us know what you think.