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Yesterday was rather interesting, I took Sammie, a friend of mine who is a major Disney fan down to meet Margaret Kerry in Warwick. For those that don’t know Margaret was the person on who Disney used to model the Tinkerbell character on, not Marilyn Monroe as a popular myth would have us believe.

She was over in the UK to do some appearances. It was fascinating hearing about how she got the job, and all the various people she has worked with. As you watched Margaret talk you could see in her manarisims and the way she held herself that she really had put her stamp on the Tinkerbell character. They had the Peter Pan film showing in one corner of the room and you could see the similarities between the two.

What I also found surprising was that she wasn’t mentioned in the credits! She has only recently started getting the recognition for being the original Tinkerbell, pretty sad in a way, much like the Funk Brother’s story. Why do these corporations not give credit when credit is due?

At the upcoming Lugradio Live, I put myself forward for organising one of the BOF’s. For those that don’t know, I thought it might be a good idea to have a BOF on the subject of how to contribute to an FLOSS project. It’s something that I have been thinking about for a long time, how to contribute, what to contribute, where do I contribute?

Thinking some more about this today, I wonder if there is a need for a website, that is sort of like a anti-sourceforge. Meaning where sourceforge is a website of projects looking for geeks, this will be a website for geeks looking for projects.

My idea is that people can register on the website, with their details, describing what skills they are willing and able to offer, how much time they can contribute, and how they can be contacted etc. This will then be available for people who are looking for help to search and find the help that they need.

I realise that there are various issues, such as privacy things, who can code the website, what shall we call it, etc. Despite all that does anyone think it’s a goer?

This weekend was started and ended by a curry, on Friday a bunch of us from #manlug went out for the monthly Curry. It was a great night, probably the best attendance we have had with a total of 7 of us. The new faces being Ben Higginbottom & Rob Kendrik, alongside us old timers; sward, PerfDave, Ben, pwaring and myself!

It was a great night with everyone enjoying themselves over a great curry. I had some sort of kebab in honey as a starter, with the classic Lamb Tikka Masalla as a main, a safe choice after the disappointing Quail curry of last month. It was really tasty, and I wouldn’t expect less from a place along Manchester’s curry mile.

Then on Sunday night I thought I would go all 70’s retro and have a Vesta Beef Curry, bad choice!! It was bloody awfull, I don’t know if it’s some sort of reconstituted beef that they use but it tastes how I imagine stale dog meat would taste like. The veggies were dire, the only decent thing was the rice. Now I very rarely throw food away, being one of the group of people who have to clear their plate (it doesn’t feel right leaving food), but for this I had to throw if before even getting halfway through the meal.

It you value your stomach and taste, don’t get a Vesta Curry!!!

Today the latest version of Ubuntu, Dapper Drake is released. This is quite a significant release as its the first one that will be supported for 5 years

So I downloaded it, didn’t use bittorrent as the regular mirrors were performing OK, that was about 30 minutes ago, so I have now just finished installing it

First impressions, very slick! It boots into a live CD and you install from there

Now to get XGL working (important things 1st you know!)