Daily Archive for September 19th, 2007

GNOME 2.20 Released

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Leighton
on September 19, 2007
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The GNOME community has just announced the latest version of it’s popular desktop environment, Gnome 2.20. Released right on schedule, 2.20 is the culmination of six months effort by Gnome contributors around the world. Check out the release notes, for a full list of improvements and some pretty pictures of 2.20 in action.

From the release notes:

“The improvements in GNOME 2.20 include: Improved support for right-to-left languages; desktop search integrated into the file chooser dialog; convenient new features in the Evolution email and calendar client; enhanced browsing of image collections; simplified system preferences; efficient power management and incredibly accurate laptop battery monitoring. Developers receive more help with application development thanks to a new version of the GTK+ toolkit, improved tools, and a great new documentation web site.”

Arrr, It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day

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on September 19, 2007
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And just when you thought the world couldn’t get any stranger. Its September the 19th again so that means the Internet’s a buzz with pirates sayings such as Ahoy!, Shiver me timbers! and Arrr!. Since today is officially known by internet users as ‘International talk like a pirate day’ (ITLAPD), it all started back in 1995 as an inside joke between friends, John Baur & Mark Summers but it wasn’t until they submitted the idea about their invented holiday to humour columnist Dave Barry in 2002. that it spiralled out of control and became the global phenomenon it is today.

If your having a little trouble talking like a pirate, check out the official talk like a pirate day website over at talklikeapirate.com. Just remember not to go over board at work today, or they might just fire you like they did the office pirate, enjoy :)

Office Pirate - Arrr!