Monthly Archive for October, 2007

Looking forward to Ubuntu 7.10 Release

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I’m looking forward to the next release of Ubuntu, and if things go well in Technovated Towers then I’m gonna make the switch to Ubuntu for sure.

Ubuntu 7.10 Release Candidate | Ubuntu
The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.10 release candidate, which brings a host of excellent new features.

We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user. The final stable version will be released in October 2007.

Most important for me is the visual X.org editor which should enable me to continue using two monitors… Am hoping that Compiz Fusion will come out better and more usable then the current release ;-)

SA vs England Rugby World Cup theme song?

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I reckon the Bokke are gonna be nice and revved up…

Sing low sweet Chariot… ;-)

Rugby World Cup 300 advert; Brian Habana vs Cheetah video

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300 (the movie) theme:

The famous Cheetah VS Brian Habana race:

links for 2007-10-18

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Kindo coverage around the world….

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We’ve been working pretty hard the last few weeks to get Kindo to a Public release, so this week we started telling people around the world about Kindo, and asking for their feedback.

The result has been that we’ve now got people from literally all over the world (73 countries now) using Kindo, with the exception of a few countries/areas (Greenland, most of Africa, some of the Middle East, Mongolia, and two South American countries I don’t want to name here ;-) So it’s pretty exciting stuff! To react to this we’re going to be rolling out some more languages soon, and focussing on making the application as consistent as possible across all languauges (not easy given differing string lengths…).

Anyways, onto the blog posts and reviews that I want to say thanks for! (In no particular order at all)

Spanish:

Italian:

German:

Swedish:

English:

The woman who gave birth to 69 children

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From the Kindo blog:

pregnancy.gifMrs Vassilet (1816-1872) holds that record and she deserves it! This Russian lady was the first wife of Fyodor Vassilet, a farmer from Shuya, and went through no less than 27 pregnancies! But the most impressive fact is that she had twins 16 times, triplets 7 times and 4 times quadruplets, which brings us to a total of … 69 children!
And, what is even more impressive, the majority of them lived up to their adult age, which wasn’t that common in those tiemes.
Mrs Vassilet’s fecundity made her so famous that she even met tsar Alexander II.
So it looks like Mrs Duggar, with her 17 children, has a long way to go…

If you want to read more curious stories about fecundity…

Come on Bokke!!!!!!

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I’ll be wearing my green and gold tomorrow ;-)

Quote of Francios Pienaar – 1995 South African Rugby World Cup winning captain – just before accepting the Rugby World Cup trophy. His comment was in response to the statement that there were 60,000 South Africans at Ellis Park that day: “We didn’t have 60,000 South Africans supporting us today – we had 43 million South Africans”

Appeal to all South Africans and Springbok Supporters:

This is a patriotic appeal to Springbok supporters and proud South Africans all over the world, and particularly those in London and England. This is a very important message and requires your support to spread the word and make it happen.

This Friday, 19th October, we call upon all South Africans abroad to wear green and gold in public, especially on their way to and from work. Whether it is your Springbok rugby jersey or just a South Africa t-shirt - make sure it’s visible. If you are required to wear a suit – wear it over your shirt and tie on your way in to work. If you work casual – wear your green and gold!

This is in response to a similar call made by Thabo Mbeki earlier in the week to South Africans at home, to show our very proud support and solidarity for John Smit and the team as they take on England this Saturday in the Rugby World Cup final.

Let us show the world that we stand as one – 100% behind the men in Green and Gold. Wear your colours not with arrogant pride but with a sense of unity and how far our nation has come!

Most importantly: as a matter of urgency please forward this message by email, SMS or word of mouth to all the South Africans you know. Time is of the essence. Send it back home to family and friends so they can send it on to others abroad. Let’s show the world.

This is not only for a bit of fun – press and other organisations have been informed to capture the day. This show of support will hopefully be broadcast and the boys in France will gain a sense of the immense support behind them.

All the best, and most of all, enjoy the game on Saturday!

Come on Bokke!!!!!!

links for 2007-10-12

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New release on Kindo Beta today!

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Sometimes there’s nothing better than some positive feedback from people you love, and in the case of Kindo it’s no different. This afternoon I sent out an email to my folks to let them know that we’d done another release, and they could check it out, and this is the response I got from my Dad:
“Hi Gareth,
Mom and I had a look very good, much easier and better to use I will now send to other relations…
Love
Dad & Mom”

Somehow, that short email the way only my Dad writes emails, makes it feel really good to get this release done. I don’t want to sound mushy, but hey, that’s the way I feel.

We’ve been working hard on Kindo for a while now, and whilst at times it’s felt like the light at the end of the tunnel was far away, today we’ve taken another step closer to a Public release of Kindo we can be proud of.

So, onto the meat and potatoes. Some of the stuff we’ve added to Beta:

  1. A profile page, so you can keep track of what your family is up to (and remember their birthdays and anniversaries)
  2. Invitation pages, so you can re-invite those family members who are too lazy to respond right away
  3. Pruning, so you can see who’s who in your tree. We’ll only show your blood-relatives, which makes the tree so much easier to navigate

Let us know what you think please!

Check out Dopplr

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Looks pretty interesting…. pity I’ve not got many travel plans on! ;-)

About Dopplr - http://www.dopplr.com/

Dopplr is an online service for frequent travellers. It was created by an international team of world travellers. We saw a need for this kind of service, but discovered that no one was offering it. So we did it ourselves, and are delighted that other people are liking it as much as we do.

Dopplr lets you share your future travel plans with a group of trusted fellow travellers that you have chosen. You can use the service with your personal computer and mobile phone.

The Dopplr ‘beta’ service is open by invitation only. Once invited by an existing member you will be able to invite others to join Dopplr and share your travels.

We would like to remind you that you can use your mobile phone to invite friends to join Dopplr. Once you’re signed up, you’ll need to first register your mobile number at http://www.dopplr.com/account/sms . After that, just SMS their email address to Dopplr, with a + symbol in front of it. For example, text +yourfriend@herdomain.com to +44 7797 806 170. That’s all you need to do. This number will only become more useful in future so save it in your phone book.

Please refer to our blog - http://blog.dopplr.com - where we discuss things like service improvements, travel tips and various ideas/tricks for using the service better. Feel free to stop by and comment. We also have a Frequently Asked Questions page - http://www.dopplr.com/main/faq - that we will keep updating.