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Last night I took a few minutes to update Ubuntu on my laptop. I updated to Edgy so I could check out Jokosher, a python/gstreamer/cairo music editing application. Jokosher seemed pretty slick and something I will try to download the source for at some point.

What really struck me was how much I miss using Linux. I can't say I am more productive or that it is a "better" way to work, but it was more fun. I realized that without Emacs on windows I would really be frustrated. Emacs gives me just enough of that *nix feel to supress my frustrations with the windows command line. It is funny that something so "unusable" as a shell could cause so many frustrations.

My other observation is that I don't use computers in the way I used to. Before, there was a whole world of community that interested me. I still enjoy the community, but it just isn't as important to me. As antisocial as this sounds, it is really a good thing. I have recently been working on "doing" more than "talking" about doing. Within the scope of working in the open source community, I do have time to contribute. If I can't contribute, I am not going to worry about becoming involved because my involvement would nothing more than me talking!

With that said, I hope to have a bit more free time at some point. I would like to take a stab at doing something with Jokosher or some other project. I finally feel my python skills are getting up to snuff and it would be a good challenge in organizing my time.