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Today in #amarok (Freenode IRC):

[14:53]  so I'm sat here going steadily nuts on a nasty maths problem

[14:53]  and amarok's dynamic playlist puts this on

[14:53] * Sentynel is listening to "Everybody Knows That You Are Insane" by Queens of the Stone Age [Lullabies to Paralyze, 2005] -- see http://www.last.fm/user/Sentynel for more

[14:53]  did somebody add a sense of humour to the random algorithm?

[14:54]  I find stuff like that all the time!

[14:55]  I think it's built in

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[14:55]  we should put that on the features list

[14:55]  yeah, we should collect those stories

[14:56]  shall I do an Insider bit?

[14:56]  we'll get email, I think

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[14:56]  haha, why not, could be amusing

[14:56]  may I have your permission to quote that bit for a blog post?

[14:57]  go ahead

[14:57]  then I can collect some funny stuff to choose from

So, send in your stories, folks! And we'll print a few of the best in the Insider

I'll keep up my Linux Grandma blog for now, but Blogger has started adding an insidious ad across the blog content, obscuring it from the reader. That must be really annoying, and I don't want to subject people to that. Serendipity is the blog software that KDE uses, and so far, it seems great. I might install it on my own server for the other blogs I have, and move the content. What a pity, blogger used to be great.

Maverick Meerkat Kubuntu, released 10/10/10, was quite an adventure in installation, due to PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair), but with the help of my son, and friend maco, and my blogged experience of the last install, I have quite a beautiful install going.

All apps installed well, most importantly Amarok and Konversation. Once I regained my old /home partition, I have my music again, unfortunately without covers and lyrics. However, the new cover-fetching is excellent, and I hope to have that all rebuilt in the next couple of months. Until then I'll be playing "Random" a lot!

While mentioning Amarok, I have to say that it's Roktober, so give! I did, and it feels great. Also, it's great to have it built from git again. All the latest!

The biggest surprise with Mav was installing Skype again, to test my built-in video camera and mic. Previously, the camera worked, but never the mic. I thought maybe it was mis-installed. However, once I unmuted it in pavucontrol (Pulseaudio controller), it worked perfectly!

I've been recently given Kubuntu membership, and am headed for UDS next weekend, to plan for Natty, the next release. Please give me any feedback you'd like me to take to Florida about the future of Kubuntu.