Busy Weekend

To start the weekend off on Friday evening, as it was my nine year old daughter’s birthday I took her to see the latest Harry Potter movie, The Order of the Phoenix. This was in my opinion the darkest and best of the Potter movies made so far. We both loved it.
Saturday morning saw us grocery shopping while our kids were at the local Kids Club run by Beacon Church. It’s usually a close thing to get the shopping dropped at home and pick the kids up when they finish at noon. We went straight from there to Faversham as Hyde Housing tenants we had been invited to a Fun Day. There was food, tombola’s, bouncy castle, face painting, hair braiding and a magician all for free. We got home about five in time for tea before friends came around at six.
For Sunday we took my Mother-in-Law to Northiam in Kent in order to pick the cherries from the orchard tree she had rented for this year. We must have harvested at least sixteen pounds in weight. After the picking which the kids thought great fun, we sat between the rows of trees for our picnic. On the way home we stopped at Headcorn Aerodrome where you can park for free and watch the aircraft land and take off, also the nutters jumping out of planes.

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Ulteo desktop

Quite a while ago I registered with www.ulteo.com volunteering to test their ‘Connected Desktop’. What? Ulteo is a Linux OS run in a web browser and accessed from any computer with an internet connection. Think of web applications but with an entire operating system around it.

This means you can create lengthy documents (no limitations like Google Docs) using openoffice.org in your personal Ulteo linux desktop from an internet cafe, sign in to your webmail account using Firefox (still within Ulteo), browse to and attach said file from you virtual Home folder and email it.

This is not fantasy because I just did it. It means you can use Linux from any computer with any platform without so much as a Live Distro CD. And I don’t think Ulteo will be the only one to take this route. It’s pioneering stuff, and where pioneers lead, others follow.

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