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In yesterday’s EMEA regional membership approval board meeting, my application for Ubuntu membership was accepted, and tonight I’m in the process of activating my membership perks, such as syndication on Planet Ubuntu. Thanks to all who cheered for me in the meeting, and who added testimonials on my wiki page!

For those who don’t know me, I’m a Finnish academic guy and a big freedom fan. I have used, advocated, and supported Ubuntu as long as it has existed, and more in fact – I downloaded my first pre-Warty copy of Ubuntu from nonameyet.com. :)

I hope I can continue to be useful for the Ubuntu community for a long time still. I foresee a glorious future for Free Software and our favorite distribution, and I only wish I can recognize as many opportunities as possible for making Ubuntu a little bit more awesome as they come by. Because they always do.

Big cheers also to our other amazing new EMEA region Ubuntu members. Full speed ahead!

I was hoping that my latest Wordpress upgrade would be the last manual one, and what do you know, it was! Today I saw a notification on my Dashboard about a new WP version being out, so I proceeded to click the “Upgrade automatically” button. Lo and behold:

Downloading update from http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.7.1.zip
Unpacking the core update
Verifying the unpacked files
Installing the latest version
Upgrading database
WordPress upgraded successfully

That’s the way I like it. Thanks to the wonderful Wordpress hackers for making my life so much easier again!

In real life, is the chase really better than the catch? Fortunately we have cartoon art that mirrors real life! I know there’s a gord around, which may break the spirit of a few international treaties, but I assure you no snuxolls were seriously harmed.

I suggest everyone makes up their own mind :-)

Today, nickspoon was unhappy about the fact that the last installation of tales was published so long ago. I guess regular releases would be better since Ubuntu users are used to them! Sorry about that, but like LjL noted, quality matters as well. (Ubuntu does get good quality regularly because they’re supported by such an awesome community quality assurance, but alas, great art such as tales from the offtopic can only be achieved by lonely geniuses.)

Like any respectable author however, I do take notes continuously, which means that when being tied to the Whipping Post, as i was today, I was able to search my trusty Tomboy archive for worthwile discussions I had thought funny in the past.

Here’s one from December 2, 2007 then! mc44 advocates Web apps, but will still give IRC to Chatzilla since while it’s not a Web application, at least it comes from Mozilla. He can also back his opinion up with evicence. wobblywu is suspicious, topyli is confused as ever.

ogmaciel on identi.ca challenged people to:

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture

Too bad this caught me right after waking up on a Saturday morning!

Posted by email from the topyli substandard (posterous)

Congratulations to us all! Debian turns 15 today. How time flies when you’re having fun!

I like how EFYtimes puts it:

Despite being only 15 years old, Debian is more mature than any of the other operating systems.

I’ll drink to that! It’s a huge exaggeration but still, we have a solid foudation to build our freedom on.

Today, I logged off of Google Talk and logged in on jabber.se exclusively. See the updated About page. The reason is simple: real Jabber has better Jabber support (no surprise there!), and I’m cutting down on recreational IRC usage. Jabber transports can easily handle the few channels I need to be on (unlike Google Talk). Proper MUC support is also a plus.

What this means is a change in priorities. I like having all my chat in one place. This means you have to compromise. I’ve enjoyed irssi’s awesome IRC capabilities but suffered from Bitlbee’s (and gTalk’s) poor Jabber support. Now I’m trying full Jabber with poor IRC support. Lets’s see how it goes.

Before: All-In-One, Always-On remote irssi session on my server.

On the desktop I’m now using Gajim because it lets me enjoy every feature provided by the server. On the mobile phone I’m trying out BombusMod. It’s very complete, but it’s also Java. Couldn’t find a better option. Tips for a good Jabber client for S60 phones are welcome. Needs to have MUC and transports at least, preferably account editing with full vCard support.

After: All-In-One, On-Demand, local Gajim session. The Gnome Do build on the background has nothing to do with it :)

Which reminds me, while the jabber.fi domain is fortunately secured by a cool Finnish Jabber and Free Software fan, we don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know of any concrete plans about a server. This needs to be fixed.

Today, jay_davis taught freebse and topyli valuable truths. I feel obliged to share this wisdom with the community, so that we can all sleep better now.

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