Earth In Balance
Recently, nations and their spokespersons have begun bandying about new numbers, grabbing headlines with ambitious seeming reductions based on a new measurement called "emission intensity".

The public is being deceived by this type of jargon and manipulation of the issues. The real issue is our civilisation's use of resources to promote greed, and the subsequent pollution and degradation of our air, water, and land.

I've been running Ubuntu on my Dell Vostro 1510 ever since I got it. Ubuntu has lasted, while my XP partition and my MacOS X (yes, it worked, and almost worked like a charm) have all been requisitioned for higher purposes. But I never (until now) managed to get Ubuntu to work perfectly... there was always one small nagging problem... the Microphone.

Recently upgraded my plain vanilla Ubuntu Jaunty to Ubuntu Studio. I was pretty worried that I would miss something, because Ubuntu Studio comes as a separate distribution. As it turned out, all I had to do was open synaptic and mark all the ubuntustudio packages to be installed, and wait all night.