While I am a right “Bah humbug” about christmas, feeling very strong that I show my love all year, not just for one day, this year I am trying harder to get in the “spirit” of the day.
Put the tree up today :-)
Doesn’t it look pretty? Also I have wrapped presents for Mum, Dad, Tom, Ella and my Bro and his wifey. woo go me
I needed a new laptop for work, so bought a HP 2710p laptop, it’s a 12″ machine which rotates the screen around to be a tablet.
A week or so in and I am finding it quite cool, great for making notes etc.
I installed Ubuntu dual boot, and most things work super - pretty much all except the touch screen.
I had a great weekend, I cleaned the MINI after I got home Friday, then on Sat I used some supaguard polish stuff I “gained”.
results speak for themselves:-
Well I finally did it, I PX’d my Mazda MX5 and bought a MINI Cooper.
I’ll miss the 5 a lot, but the MINI is a fab little car and should suit my needs a lot better.
I was bored and did this - http://picasaweb.google.com/garykearley/Mooooooooo
Original
My Effort 
woo go me, I’m on holiday with nothing to do, so I tidied my study desk
Before-
After -
I have done a new build of Ubuntu Gutsy, to test the installer and how it works for me.
everything works really well, I’m very impressed.
I also installed kubuntu-desktop, and as such got a good mix of gnome and kde applications
Theme and wallpaper now look like this -
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I’ve been playing with logos for my LUG, and so far like this one the best
Other possibles are:
The pink one is for the people in the LUG who are more in touch with their feminine side 
Original one is like this:-
Well I was told by work to use up my spare holidays, so I took a fortnight off work, and Tom and I went to Scotland for a few days.
It was very nice, but so god-damned cold 
we stayed at Glen Nevis Campsite, which has great views of Ben Nevis.
Came back on Wednesday and have finally defrosted
I’m doing an event in Colchester for Software Freedom Day 2007, it is in the library and should be quite a laugh.
Today I made some t-shirts, they are not that good, but they are cheap.
I am quite pleased with them.
Also I am being very busy on other preparations for Saturday 15th, as can be seen here - LUG Category and here - LUG SFD Page
Oh, and I made a cool logo
