Club Ubuntu

I felt that this needed to be shared with the community.

So bored in fact that I am downloading all of ubuntu 8.04.3s source code for their cd's..yes I have found it!

I'd like to learn the basics of some programming language but I have no programming experience whatsoever. I looked at Emma's Learning Quest Framework and thought that might be a great idea for a group of people who wanted to learn how to program. I downloaded something called Code Blocks from http://www.codeblocks.org/ , that I thought I might be able to learn C++ on, since it is a language in high demand and you can do lots of things with it.

Just saying hi!

I know this is going to be frowned upon, but just testing the blog.

The Learning Quest Framework

This is a framework for organizing and motivating a self-study group around any particular subject/topic.

(1) Organize a group of people who are interested in learning about the subject/topic.

(2) Agree upon a text which everyone can obtain (the same edition).

(3) Define the scope of the quest with a definite start and a definite ending. This could be "the entire book" or it could be particular chapters, etc.

After some deliberation I have decided to teach myself common lisp. In order to get going with Lisp on ubuntu (and to do it in the traditional way) I had to install emacs along with some other tools like slime (the canonical lisp development environment). Using aptitude for this entire process is possible, but not optimal -- one will end up with an outdated version of slime and Debian will not be packaging lisp tools in the future. The best way to get started with a Lisp system on Ubuntu is to use cbuild.

This pie chart shows the distribution of IRC clients in ##club-ubuntu, interesting!

http://imgur.com/xQr75.jpg

My birthday!

Yes, today is my birthday.

My lovely family bought me this beautifal ubuntu messenger bag - http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=123&osCsid=e039c5...

and some awesome 20 watt bluetooth speakers!

Heh, I also received some ubuntu thinking putty, so it was a bit of an ubuntu themed birthday.

Today is the 25th aniversiry of tetris according to google.
How has no one beaten my score yet? I set that on my first go