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Earth Hour 2009

By Rich Johnson on Published: March 25, 2009 at 6:42 pm

It is that time of year again where many people from around the world participate in what is known as Earth Hour. Earth Hour is one hour where people from around the world have the opportunity to switch off their lights for 1 hour. This year though, you will get the chance to vote for either Earth or Global Warming. Flipping your light switch off for 1 hour is a vote for Earth, and leaving it on is a vote for Global Warming. When does this occur? It happens between 8:30 PM and 9:30PM your time for 1 hour.

In may part I plan on not only shutting off my lights, but also my computers, websites, and all electrical equipment in the house. I figure for 1 hour I will chill around a candle and maybe read a book.

Thanks to Brian Clark from GNOME, he has brought to my attention as well as to the attention of Planet GNOME readers, that there is an Earth Hour plugin for WordPress. I have already installed on my blog here and I think it would be cool if those of you with a WordPress blog showed your support and did the same. It doesn’t shut your sight off for an hour, but during that hour it displays a custom page showing your support. Pretty cool!

VOTE EARTH

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Remember The Milk Google Gadget Plasmoid

By Rich Johnson on Published: March 22, 2009 at 12:17 am

Just wanted to drop a quick post about a really quick coding project (ie. 5 minutes) to incorporate a very simple Remember The Milk plasmoid for KDE 4.2.x. I utilized the Google Gadget GTalk code and just very easily implemented the RTM gadget. It works well, it just doesn’t have all of the functionality of other RTM clients. There is a full-blown RTM plasmoid coming soon, but I couldn’t wait and needed something right now.

So if you are interested in using it, you can get the tarball over at KDE-Look.org, or if you need Kubuntu installs, both Intrepid and Jaunty, hit up my PPA.

rtm-plasmoid

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Chicago Style Jaunty Release Party

By Rich Johnson on Published: March 19, 2009 at 11:49 am

The Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team is currently in the process of sorting out the details for an Ubuntu Jaunty Release Party. Right now we are fairly certain the date will be April 25th, 2009 and that the location will be somewhere in the city limits of Chicago. We haven’t worked out the venue nor the exact times just yet, but we are working on that. Right now, some of the options for a venue that have been brought up are:

  • Illinois Institute of Design (Our favorites at this time pending our buddy Kevin’s approval).
  • Risqué Café (One of our favorite hang out spots near Wrigley Field)
  • Portillos (The best Chicago style hot dogs – though we don’t know how well it would be for a venue)
  • Goose Island (Chicago’s finest brewery and restaurant – great for all ages as they have amazing Root Beer as well – WiFi was an issue last year)
  • ….have a place you would like to offer and think would be a great spot?

If you in fact have an idea of another place to hold such a venue, please either stop by our IRC channel on Freenode in the channel #ubuntu-chicago, or you can Join our mailing list and then us an email to ubuntu-us-chicago AT ubuntu DOT com.

If anything changes, please keep an eye on this blog or Jim Campbell’s blog.

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