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Today I rebooted my dual booting machine and returned to my Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy the Badger) installation. One thing that I am smacked with immediately is the fact that everything is faster, browsing the web is faster, instant messaging patching,...EVERYTHING. I am home today because of a strike that is in place in New York, the local union Transit Workers Union 100 is striking against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. So no reason for me to cry about it , I took the day off I feel that this shouldn't have come to this, the week of Christmas. So here I am home and playing with all my nerd toys :)

OK back to Ubuntu...I patched this morning that took about 10 mins and in that patching was a new version of the kernal so post patching ...Reboot and start new version of the kernal (2.6.12-10-386). The geek crosses fingers and poof..we are back up no issues on the reboot and actually ran glxgears (quick gui testing 3D accleration) and low and behold my frames per second have almost tripled. Not sure what caused the huge bump in FPS but I am grinning. Then back to digg to see what new news I see, reading a few posts and I come accoss an article about FLOCK. Ok here is what I know so far about Flock; Flock is a new browser that started out as a group of extensions for Firefox and has morphed into a full-blown web2.0 friendly, multimedia web browser. The reason that this caught my attention is well you are reading my blog and Flock supposedly has some hooks into blogging, RSS, and cool internet based community sites (Flickr del.icio.us). OK so here is the first impression this is a really useful browser. I love the hooks to del.icio.us alot , and the direct connection to del.icio.us for bookmarks or favorites is fantastic. I am still getting the hang of the Flickr connectivity and the built in RSS feed reader and blog editor.

After realizing that I could edit the rest of this blog I logged out of my blog and bounced back into it directly through the Blog button on the installed Flock browser. This is one very simple way to bring together alot of things I do frequently, I would have to say please head out and get your feet wet with Flock and all the web2.0 sites that I have mentioned in this blog today. Web browsers should bring all your web fucntions together under one roof and Flock does that. I know that Firefox has alot of these functionalities available but they are through extensions and what I have done here is with no customization post install on my Ubuntu machine.