I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux on my netbook for the past couple of days and I’m quite pleased with the whole experience, except for the initial issues (I just won’t trust the auto-update).Ubuntu uses the Gnome desktop environment by default with a little bit of tweaking. Gnome UI designers have a sense of aesthetic cognizance to their designs. I’ve always appreciated the crisp icons and the polished dialogs. I’ve been known to throw around the word stunning, quite generously, while describing Gnome....

I’ve been exclusively using Meego on my netbook and I was moderately happy with what it provided. So I did what any self-respecting hacker would do - I tried to make it better. Well, we all know how that usually ends. I managed to uninstall every single kernel in the system and rendered the system unbootable. Taking this as an opportunity I decided to try a grown-up OS. Enter Ubuntu into the picture....

It was a good day for Aikido. We started at 10am and went till 4pm with an hour break. My joints are sore but my mind is exuberant. I actually managed to get more than 2 hours of Javascript learning after that. I’m quite impressed by the features of Javascript. Passing a function to another function as a parameter, returning a function, a function inside a function, anonymous functions (lambdas), wow, its a surprisingly powerful language for doing web development....

After realizing that I only have 2 days per week (and weekends) to work on my side projects, I decided to axe one of my hobbies. Unfortunately Hapkido got kicked out (no pun intended) of my schedule. Sad day. I really enjoyed Hapkido and I hope I can get back to it once things settle down a little bit. So what am I going to do on these free Wednesday nights?...

We went snowboarding for the first time this season. This is the first time I’ve hit the slopes after 5pm. It wasn’t bad at all, the lifts were empty and the slopes were free. Too bad I don’t know how to snowboard well enough, because I kept falling on my bum. Yoshi hasn’t figured out if she is regular footed or goofy footed and she kept trying both, hope she hasn’t confused her brain beyond repair....