Modern Life

Forgive me, father, it's been two weeks since my last blog post.

Modern life got in the way again.

[Insert four-letter word here]

Work.

Need I say any more...

Full Circle Podcast #13: The One Where You're a Rabbit

Full Circle Podcast #13: The One Where You're a Rabbit is available from the main site.

In this episode, UDS, Unity and no big guns...

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In the show:

• Review Issue #42 of Full Circle Magazine 
• News Ubuntu Developers Summit (UDS), Unity interface
• Opinion: Introducing "Ubuntu the Movie," (it's not an ad, apparently...) 
• Gaming The game sweeping the world: Minecraft  and Ed previews new indie puzzle game 'And Yet It Moves'

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Runtime: 54min 40seconds

Apple To Remove Java from Mac OS X?

After the news that the new MacBook Air netbooks do not ship with Flash pre-installed it may be that Apple will be removing its  own Java runtime from Mac OS X.

In the release notes for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3:

"As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Java that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, is deprecated...

"This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be maintained at the same level, and may be removed from future versions of Mac OS X. The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of those products."

Some Java support was removed a while ago...

Ubuntu's First Commercial

If you haven't seen the first 'official' Ubuntu brand commercial, take a minute to do so.

The animation is very good; bouncy, happy, bright and snappy. I like the visuals.

I'm just not convinced about the message.

It tries to answer the question What is Ubuntu?

And completely fails. Utterly.