Yeah, I know, I’ve been using it for 7 years, and I still find it really, really cool. Today I spent a lot of time actually converting myself to Linux (as opposed to just learning it and using it on the side, as I’ve been doing for the last 7 years). I moved my Thunderbird stuff over to Ubuntu Dapper as well as Gaim. I’ve also dropped Winamp (since there is no Winamp for Linux sadly) in favor of amarok.
On the issue of Media Players, I was originally looking for a player that had a winamp style layout, but also had a Media Library. The only thing I found that came close was BMPx, however, it was much too unstable (it’s not really finished yet, so I don’t blame the authors 
). It does look promising, however, so I’ll keep checking in on it from time to time. For now, amarok has all the features I want (supports ogg, mp3, and wma, not that I have any wma anymore ).
I’ve also finished moving my Firefox configuration over (bookmarks, et. al.). Tomorrow, I plan on making sure that all the media formats that I’ll run into are taken care of (Quicktime, Realplayer, Flash, et. al.). A lot of that will be taken care of VLC Media Player which has a nice Firefox plugin.
A clipping of a comment on the BBC bashing President Bush by a user on Digg.com:
And anyone who can look at a man who graduated from Yale, became a fighter pilot, kicked alcoholism, owned a baseball team, served two terms as governor of a very large state and two terms as our president, and call that man an idiot, is an idiot.
I must say, that sums it up as well as or better than I could have said it. I can’t say that I agree with everything that the President has ever done policy-wise (in fact, I absolutely disagree with his current stance on illegal immigration), but I just can’t imagine what this Country would be like with Al Gore or John Kerry at the helm. Have any of you people ever thought seriously on that?
Just try to imagine what John Kerry would have done after 9/11. After he got through telling the news media that he had a plan, he would probably try to bribe the terrorists in the world with a lifetime supply of Heintz 57 Sauce! And Al Gore is no better: he would spring into action by telling the country that he would suggest putting the terrorists of the world in a “lock-box,” and that in this “lock-box” they would be safe from the other 39 soveriegn nations of the world that wanted to wipe them off the face of the planet. However, this might be a cruel-and-unusual punishment (because they might feel too isolated), so he’s going to forego that plan, and we’ll just have to hope that they decide not to pursue any more flying lessons.
Well, I feel better now.