Ubuntu & Blogging!

Had a nice dinner with Ngoc this evening. Vietnamese food is always good. I just got home about 10 minutes ago, and now I'm going to install Ubuntu on my laptop to see what all the talk is about. I'm also going to try installing Hello and Picasa in Windows, and seeing if I can get them to run in Linux under WINE. Those two applications are so damn cool. I wish we had something like those applications for GNOME. GThumb & F-Spot seem like they're about halfway there on the photo album management (I think they still need a bit of polishing, and maybe even built in blog posting!). And there's a slew of GNOME blogging applications out there. But none are quite usable, in my opinion. I think they should all combine into one killer GNOME blogging application, and work on integrating blogging into the entire Desktop.
So now I'm picking out a DSL package for Ngoc. I think we're going to go with TeleSurferPlus. Though I've never purchased DSL before, so this is basically a shot in the dark. My stupid CD drive on my laptop is acting up again, and is choking when it tries to read the data off the Ubuntu install CD. I'm amazed my laptop has lasted as long as it has though. So I'm going to install Picasa & Hello in Windows. Cheers!