May I see your ID, please?

Leonardo Gomez posted an image to his blog of some great Ubuntu IDs that look so good I’d like to get one for myself.

Why the frak are they called bugs?

For years I’ve worked with computers both as a user and as a tester, and I’ve used the term “bugs” for errors for almost as long as I’ve used computers. But until today I never understood just why they’re called “bugs.”

The 2008 season is almost here, and MLB rolls out a remake of Gameday

Except for the Red Sox and the A’s, who played two games of their new season in Tokyo this past week, the 2008 season for Major League Baseball is going to begin in just a few days. If you loved the live Gameday app for following baseball games in the past there’s a major update for Gameday 2008.

Got iTunes for Windows? You might have Safari now, too

[Updated to include a link on another related piece from Tom Krazit at Cnet. - Nanci]

Yesterday Apple used it’s Software Update system to send out updates to iTunes, and it offers to upgrade your Safari, Apple’s web browser, even if you don’t have it installed already.

Alberto has Graduated

Alberto Milone, the developer of the Envy video driver utility, has completed his thesis and graduated from grad school.

US Navy chooses Open Source

The US Navy, in a decision being rejoiced over by the Free and Open Source community, has announced that future IT purchases will only be of open source systems.

Stop waiting for Ubuntu info with Ubuntu Live Stats

Peng and I saw some things about Ubuntu Live Stats over the last couple of days, but neither of us saw things that needed to be blogged now. But I just followed a link from yet another story on it and I have to admit this new site brings the wow factor to keeping up with our favorite Linux distro.

Ubuntu takes a page from Dell’s playbook

A fantastic thing Dell does for it’s customers is its Brainstorm site where they can tell the company what they’d love to see from the company. Comments on Dell’s Brainstorm site were responsible for our finally being able to get a Dell computer with Linux, specifically Ubuntu Linux, preinstalled.

Last week Ubuntu took the wraps off their new brainstorm.ubuntu.com site, in hope that it will be an even better way to find out what we users want than the Launchpad is.

Au revouir, AllPeers

Many people have fallen in love with the AllPeers service, and I rest drove a Firefox extension for the service last year. But today they announced that they are closing their doors for good.

Greetings to Mozilla Messaging

A while back Mozilla said it was going to spin off their Thunderbird email client into its own company, and after months of waiting by concerned users Mozilla has finally introduced Mozilla Messaging, formerly known as MailCo, to the world.