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Kubuntu ships with a modified version of KDE’s plasma that has Google Gadget support disabled. If you care, their justification for it is here. I have wanted to add Google Gadgets seemlessly to my desktop for some time and had hoped that the new version 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope would fulfill my dreams. As of Release Candidate 1, however, it appears it will not.
Nevertheless, hope is not lost. Someone has put together a nice quick and easy guide to getting Google Gadgets into Jaunty’s plasma desktop.
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Here is a quick rundown of all of the things going right now:
1. The semester is closing, and I have two big projects to complete: one cataloging final project and an annotated bibliography for my reference class.
2. In the next few days, I am expecting to receive a contract from the publishing company that is commissioning me to write a book. I will give more detail on that when it is signed and sealed.
3. I am looking for freelance writing jobs and might have found a long-term gig. Again, I will provide more information on that when available.
4. Summer classes start in May. I have already planned out the rest of my master’s program, which concludes a year from May (2010).
5. My kids are growing like weeds and eating like bottomless pits. I will post pictures soon.
6. We are about to push the TV show online in a big way; more on that as it develops.
This is the final call for any people interested in a full diversity fellowship from a grant provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, organized by the Indiana State Library and Indiana University School of Library and Information Science.
Applicants must demonstrate their commitment to enhanced diversity in Indiana libraries and agree to work in an Indiana library for at least two years after completing the 16-month program. (And Indiana is a great place to live, in case you were wondering).
I am 1/4 of the way through the program and have enjoyed it thoroughly thus far. It is hard work but well worth it in the end. Contact me if you need help applying. For more general information, see here.
This morning I got caught in an RSS tornado. I was minding my own business in gmail on my Eee PC when I must have accidentally clicked on “Google Reader”. The next thing I know, over 1,000 news articles were at my fingertips.
No, this is not an ad for Google. There are plenty of services for RSS, but I normally use Akregator to handle mine on my desktop. I never bothered to set it up on my netbook.
The funny part of it all is that I have no recollection of ever setting up Google Reader. I would have needed to import my .opml file (the file that contains the feeds) in order for my feeds to be there on demand, that is unless Google somehow scooped off of my hard drive (I’m working on a new conspiracy theory). So much for getting work done. Darn cloud computing.
