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I’ve finally had it with Ubuntu’s default email client. Since I installed Karmic 9.10, I’ve been determined not to have to run Microsoft Outlook in a virtual machine simply to get e-mail. The only Ubuntu mail client with built-in support is Evolution. And it is a singularly shit piece of software.

Just a quick note – if you have problems accessing the “Main Menu” item from you “System” menu in Ubuntu Karmic, you may want to try the following.

I ordered my Kindle the very day that Amazon announced the international release of the device. On the 19th, as promised, I was informed that it had been shipped, and would arrive within a few days. I had in the meantime left on a business trip, but on my return on the 25th of October, [...]

I completed a research paper on the knowledge management aspects of software industrialisation last year.

I strongly believe that democracy is not the optimum way of choosing a government. No – I do not have a viable alternative, but the evidence suggests that there should be a better way of determining who is fit to govern.

Distressingly, I have hardly blogged at all during the past few weeks (months?). Time to catch up – and present you with the City of Warsaw’s Palace of Science and Culture.

I have had a very busy two months – traveling, learning, and dealing with new responsibilities.

I have just returned from yet another two day trip to an unusual destination. This time it was Siberia – to be more precise, the city of Novosibirsk, or “New Siberia”.

Just after nine o’clock last night, Lindy and I remarked to each other that we can smell yet another veld-fire. Just before one we were woken up by the sirens, and the strong smell of smoke.

I visited China for the first time during the first week of March, 2009. It was a very short, business related trip but I managed to see a tiny part of Shenzhen. These are my impressions.