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Update-March-29


I've been suffering through a 5 day problem with my Smartbro
connection.  The service is on for 15 minutes and turns
itself off.  I've been calling customer service everyday,
sometimes twice a day thinking if I persist I could will
a resolution. 

So this agent tells me that Smart is doing upgrades to its
bandwidth.  He tells me the network is being upgraded from
the old 1 mbps to 2 mbps.  Wow that's great.  Now if they
can only accomplish that without taking my connection away.

Gwibber is great.  I downloaded this microblogging tool
last week and it's the first application I open everytime
I boot up.  It manages my Twitter and Facebook accounts in
one UI.  I can send and receive my messages for those two
accounts in a compact and simple manner.  It strips away
the ads and the sideshows.  Just my friends and family
member's updates. 

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic.  It doesn't have the Memenu
panel thingy to encapsulate Empathy, Evolution and Gwibber.
Using Synaptic, the package manager, I downloaded the new
Light and Ambiance themes created for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid.
I added the indicator-applet to pretty much do the job of
Memenu and clone the functionality on my Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic.
Ubuntu Linux is truly so extensible and customizable that
I don't have to wait until Lucid is available.




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