I’ve never posted a YouTube video in any of my posts, but this one had a whole bunch of us at work laughing our arses off! So here’s for those who like me, spent several hours playing Super Mario Bros.

Yesterday I heard/read from someone about this cool application that would fetch weather information and convert it into a wallpaper that got refreshed every so often. This program is called Weather-Wallpaper! Since we like cool and simple applications, we quickly packaged it for Foresight Linux but realized that the weather information being displayed was using the metric system. Now, without starting stupid arguments about the fact that the United States uses the imperial system, I took upon myself to add that feature to the still young code.

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.

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!

I wanted to comment on Tristan Rhodes's latest post before but didn’t get a chance. Last time I checked he had received 56 comments on his suggestion to “unify” the Ubuntu name (and by unify he means to avoid the proliferation of several different distribution versions, that distinguish themselves based only on the window manager installed by default). I must tell you that I have to agree with him, mainly because I feel that the many [U|X|Ku|n]buntu out there could be very confusing to an end user who’s decided to check out GNU/Linux for the first time.