Between maintaining my current Twitter addiction – @mr_billiam (I’ll add a Twitter feed to WP at some point when it’s not sweltering hot outside) – starting the reading for my thesis and helping Matt with various website, I haven’t had a huge amount of time to do anything particularly exciting. The fact that many days in the past two weeks – today included – have probably been the hottest I’ve had the misfortune to experience doesn’t help.

Anyway, that’s partially why I haven’t blogged normally in a while, because I haven’t got a huge amount to blog about. This blog will probably – over time – become more like my last entry where I try and explain things, either to other people or for my own use, while I write my thesis. I actually found that trying to write a fairly succinct (although clearly insufficient) description of linguistics helped me clarify my own thoughts, so writing up some blog entries about different issues as I read and gradually construct my thesis will probably be good for me, and it’ll let people who may or may not be interested in the topics find out some information. I’ll have to do a bit of referencing sometimes, particularly when my comments are regarding a specific text, but I think I can live with that. Other than that, nobody generally reads my blog entries so it’s really sort of a waste of time if I’m not getting something out of them.

I also might post a few more software/hardware reviews or something, depending how pissed off or interested I get in certain things. We all know the world needs more people explaining why they don’t use Linux as their main operating system and about everything else they do on a computer!

In other news, Matt and I have actually (well, almost) finished a website project that we’ve been supposedly working on for almost a year not. That’s not the result of any particular difficulty, it’s just been hard to actually get it to happen. The site itself is up now, and a few finishing touches are being put on, so that’s definitely progress.

Anyway, the main purpose of this entry was to explain why I haven’t been updating my blog particularly often, and to ‘unveil’ what I’m going to probably be blogging about more often starting very shortly. Since I’ve done that, I might leave it there…

I’m going to take a little departure in this post to talk about something particularly geeky but something which I wanted to talk about anyway.

For the past two weeks, I’ve been almost exclusively using Ubuntu as my primary operating system. Actually, I’ve had every intention of casting Windows off entirely as my main operating system and moving to Linux completely. I won’t be. In this post I’m going to talk about the things I think are going very well in Linux (or, more specifically, Ubuntu) and the things which I think still need work before it’s ready for prime time.

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