I recently signed up to Identi.ca (around Monday evening GMT).
Basically it’s like Twitter but it’s Open-Source, and has a large following from the Ubuntu community, a lot of the members from the Forums are on there too 
As well as being open-source, it supports OpenID which means you can use 1 login across multiple websites (read the link for more info).
In all I actually prefer it to Twitter (I deleted my Twitter account). You can find me at http://identi.ca/Joeb454
I know it’s only Alpha 4, but I decided to install it on my laptop last night because I can, and I had nothing else to do.
So far so good, it’s got to be said! There’s a few issues I’ve noticed though, these are:
Now I can’t really comment on the first 2 because I just sent off the error reports and then I got no more prompts…or running applications 
Though shutdown is an odd one, I have the button on the far right of my top panel, and under the system menu. Trying to shutdown or restart from either doesn’t work at all. I hope this gets fixed soon, until then I may added a launcher to my panel to shutdown instead;)
Keyboard shortcuts is a pain, I have a keyboard shortcut for the terminal, but it doesn’t work 
So I tried changing it to a different key combo - still no dice. It’s a shame, it’s only now that I’ve realised how much I used it. I hope this also gets fixed really soon, so I can remove the terminal icon from my top panel.
Other than that I’m really enjoying the Intrepid Experience so far. The “newhuman” theme has grown on me quite a bit. I actually quite like it now, I was unsure at first. Also Compiz works great (cube deformation & 3d windows have been added to my features). On Ubuntu 8.04 running 3d Windows made my laptop grind to a halt…smooth as anything now 
I’m happy!
I’ll post more thoughts after Alpha 5, Beta & RC etc. Until then - have a screenshot or 2
UPDATE: Thanks to this comment I managed to get my terminal shortcut back - so thanks for that I still think that’d be classed as a bug though.
I just finally got around to using rsync to backup my laptop to my home server
It’s really good, I’d recommend it to anybody for a good backup solution. I’ve backed up my entire home folder to it (but not onto the samba share ;)) I thought about that one!!
I’m now looking for another mini project, SVN was considered, but I guess it’s a little overkill. Still, I need something to do!
I believe the logs are currently being sorted out. I have to say I enjoyed it, and I’m looking forward to further tutoring sessions held by members of the Ubuntu Community.
Congrats to st33med
I’m finally settling into my new found position on the Forums. I’m still doing what I normally do, just with less reporting of posts :p
Also the other week I decided to go for Ubuntu Membership, and the meeting was last night (I thought it was the Friday night…I decided to go through the Americas board, to guarantee that I would be home, and lets just say that the timezone’s got the better of me
I got accepted as a member, which means some of you may well be reading this blog post from http://planet.ubuntu.com (o hai!!1!) So you’ll occasionally see some stuff from me there.
I think that’s all I have to say
