My good friend José Vitor sent me snapshot today: Recognize anyone ohhh, say on the lower left hand corner? :) Something tells me I became the poster boy for Mugshot! :)

I’m very excited to announce that I have taken the role of committer for the Brazilian XFCE Team! I bring to the table my background as a translator for the GNOME team for the last 9-10 months, as well as my background as a translator and former leader of the Brazilian Ubuntu Translation Team (and some minor contributions with the Brazilian KDE Team). I want to take the opportunity to properly thank Adriano Winter Bess for kindly stepping down as the pt_BR translations maintainer, and allowing me to take this role.

A pedido do André Noel… Tenho o enorme prazer de anunciar que eu agora sou o responsável pelo processo de revisão e administração das traduções da equipe Brasileira do XFCE! Eu trago para a “mesa” meu background de tradutor da equipe do GNOME pelos últimos 9-10 meses, como também meu background como tradutor e ex-líder da equipe Brasileira de tradutores do Ubuntu (e algumas contribuições com a equipe Brasileira do KDE).

foresight-notification-theme Originally uploaded by kenvandine This one goes to Jonh Wendell who made the suggestion last night! Critical level notifications will have a red band on the left; Normal will sport the light green you see on this screenshot, and Low will have a light tan color.

Over the weekend my next door neighbor managed to damage the passenger side door of my Honda when he parked too close to my car… That wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact that it was the second car he’s damaged in the last month… also mine! Now, he’s an older professor from UNC who has been very nice and polite ever since we moved to Chapel Hill, and I let it slide the first FIVE times he scratched/dented my Pacifica… but enough is enough!

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I was pleasantly surprised to see (as far as I know) the very first article written about APTonCD on last month’s issue (issue 95) of Linux Format, my favorite Linux magazine! Back in August (or was it September?) of last year I learned that Rafael “CypherBIOS” Proença had started this project written in Python that promised to deliver “a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages you’ve downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers.