P.S. It’s A Good Day For Linux

My programmer is happy. The following goodies got released or mentioned in the news (and now that I have discovered the intense, brain-melting joy of extreme information overload via an RSS aggregator) I get to jump up and down on the bed with the latest tidbits-essentially beating him to the scoop and waking him up early. I know, I’m a competitive, little witch.

Anyway:

IBM announced they’re going to support Ubuntu, and so the, may I say trend?, continues of big companies tiptoeing into the Linux sphere. The rest of the article talks about Lotus…when did Lotus come back? I swear I thought it died a silent death in the 90s.

A new version of Ubuntu is out. Yeah, it’s just a maintenance release. But I’m currently in love with Ubuntu, that is until I break something irrevocably in it and have a temper tantrum. Breaking things is my super power. I’ve been known to crash the Linux kernel, causing a look of wonder and awe to cross my programmer’s face.

Not the newest of news, but KDE 4.0 was released last week. It won’t be useful for me as 4.0 seems to be geared more to the cutting edge user at the moment (so not me, but I’m sure my programmer is already all over it).

Drowning In RSS Feeds

You’re all in trouble.  I’m venturing into this-what my programmer calls-Web 2.0 world.  A few days ago I tried my hand at subscribing to RSS feeds using Google Reader.  For all of those who are as behind as I am, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.  News websites, blogs, companies, etc. spit out feeds that list their latest posts.  Readers can subscribe to feeds using an aggregator (like Google Reader) to list the headlines/latest posts from all their favorite websites in one place.  I’m only using Google Reader because I knew it existed.  By no means do I know if it is the best, most versatile, or sexiest.  I’m just experimenting.

Like most people who play with naughty things, I’ve become addicted-to the concept of RSS.  It is so awesome not to have to go to the fifteen or so websites that had been part of my daily ritual.  The problem is, I may have become a little too excited.  I subscribed to whole categories…and just about everything else that sounded even vaguely interesting.  So now, after only three days, I have over 1000 unread items in my aggregator.

However, that makes me really excited; I have so much I want to comment on!  And that’s why you’re in trouble.