Archive for November, 2009

World Aids Day – December 1st, 2009

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Read more: http://www.aids.gov/world-aids-day/

I would print a poster and take a pic with me holding it, but my digital camera is broken. I’ll be trying to spread this around as much as I can.

Hoping for a cure for AIDS to be found soon,
Collin Pruitt

Won’t be on much this week

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Just so everyone won’t be wondering where I went, I won’t be on very much for the remainder of this week.

We are moving to a new house, but we are not moved in yet, and my ISP switched our service over to the new house early this morning.

I’m currently typing this from my laptop at that house, just FYI. My home server, hellow.homeunix.org, went down with my connection too. It won’t be back up until I get everything set back up at our new house.

Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Collin Pruitt

Ubuntu Forums Unanswered Posts Team November 21, 2009 Meeting Summary

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

The meeting page is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnansweredPostsTeam/Meetings/20091121

The Ubuntu Forums Unanswered Posts Team convened on the date of November 21, 2009 at 23:21:00UTC to discuss the following:

  • New Member Nominations

We welcomed new members TuxPurple and stlsaint to the team.
The meeting was approximately ~10-15 minutes long.
The meeting convened later than the planned time of 22:00UTC due to the leader being absent.
Logs can be found at /log
Happy Thanksgiving!

UDS – Did you enjoy it?

Friday, November 20th, 2009

For the last week the Ubuntu community has been holding the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Lucid Lynx in Dallas, Texas. Sadly, with school and all, I could not attend, although I very much wanted to.
For those of you that did attend, did you enjoy it? Did you learn anything new there? What was your favorite part of it?
Post in a comment below.

Typing possibly the shortest blog post ever,
Collin Pruitt

Black Friday 2009 Sites

Friday, November 20th, 2009

I  thought that, with Black Friday 2009 coming up, it would be a good time to suggest a couple of sites related to Black Friday.

Gottadeal’s Black Friday Site
This is a good one, they even have their own forums in place.

BFAds
This one, from what I can see, also has a community.

Engadget also made a good Black Friday post: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/14/black-friday-deals-bonanza-round-up/

Mashable also made a good post on using Social Media to find the best Black Friday deals: http://mashable.com/2009/11/20/black-friday-social-media/

And, last but not least, the relevant Twitter hashtag searches:
#blackfriday
#blackfriday2009 (less active than #blackfriday)

Slightly off the primary topic of the post, there is a good Thanksgiving hashtag going on too: #thanksgiving

Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving holiday,
Collin Pruitt