Microsoft’s new ClearType fonts for Vista are great. The fonts include Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara and Consolas. Getting them installed in Ubuntu is a breeze, thanks to a script I found. To install the Vista ClearType fonts in Ubuntu, you need to install cabextract first. Cabextract is a utility found in the universe repository, so before [...]

So Jorge Castro is now a Canonical employee! Jorge, I for one, would love to see your mug again on Planet Ubuntu. I would love to see whiprush.org up and about again. Jorge’s disappearance from the interwebs was followed by pleas for his return, about 9 months ago (you can find his last post here if [...]

I was in love with Acer laptops. I bought my first one, an Acer Travelmate 290 LMi in my second year of grad school. I did pay ~ $1200 for it, but it was awesome, right until the moment there were errors with the hard disk controllers about 3 years later. When I sold it [...]

Ans: A guy in a pic…. Trivial, I know, and not too original either, since I got it from LiveJournal, but I couldn’t resist posting this

I read the impressive growth and traffic details for WordPress.com at Matt’s Blog. WordPress has always been very dear to me, and it makes me happy to note that the WordPress team grows from strength to strength, without compromising on values, and while keeping things open, almost entirely so. However, the stat freak in me [...]