Hope all of you worn your casual day stickers and contributed your bit.

Today is also the start of the Rugby World Cup being held in France.  As a patriotic South African I do support the Boks … good luck to them and I honestly think they have the team to bring the cup back.

Now for my feed entries:

• Ubuntu Screencasts/Linux –
  • Introduction to Linux
  • Freedom & Licenses
  • Panasonic puts Linux PCs at 35,000 feet
    
  • Why Ubuntu
• Free/Open Source software I use or recommend –
  • MozBackup 1.4.7
  • AVG Free Edition 7.5.485a1117
  • Free Download Manager 2.5 Build 710
  • Ad-Aware 2007 Reference File 0019.0000
  • WinSCP 4.0.4 released
  • OpenOffice.org for Windows 2.3.0 RC1 beta
  • FreeMind 0.9.0 Beta 13 beta
  • Skype for Windows 3.5.0.234
  • 7-Zip (32-bit) 4.55 Beta beta
• Open Standards –
  • Microsoft Open XML standards vote foments politics, dismay (News.com)
  • ISO votes against fast tracking Microsoft’s Office Open XML (ars technica)
• IBM –
  • IBM’s Radical Collaboration
  • UK Lotus launch party, 18th September 2007
  • Notes 8 Linux desktop video on YouTube
  • Network World: IBM Lotus Sametime tops corporate IM platform review
  • Notes 8 overview flash posted
• Facebook –
  • Can You Claim to Be in Social Media without Having a Facebook Account?
  • Facebook goes public
• Geekdinners –
  • 2000 geek dinners via facebook
• How to’s –
  • How To Install Google Desktop On Ubuntu
  • Linux Command-Line Cheat Sheet
• WordPress –
  • WordPress 2.3 Beta 2
  • Community Cloud WordPress Plugin Released
• Web Development –
  • Python for system administrators
• Interesting reads –
  • The Art of Building Virtual Communities by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach

One of Jupiters icy moons — Europa:

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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