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On Thursday, the latest version of Ubuntu, 8.04 codenamed "Hardy Heron", will be released.

I decided to beat the rush and I upgraded to the release candidate yesterday.

Even though I beat the rush, I could tell I wasn't the only one doing it. The servers were kinda slow, which meant I spent a better part of the afternoon downloading updates. The actual install process, however, went without any problems.

I said on Friday when I posted my quick blurb about the earthquake that I would write more "later."

Well, two days is "later", isn't it?

I got to work on Friday and was talking to a co-worker about a computer problem he was having when he said, "Maybe the earthquake caused the problem."

"What earthquake?" I asked.

"The earthquake this morning," he said. "It was supposed to have been a 5.4 or something. Didn't you feel it?"

I told him I hadn't. But as soon as I got away from him and back to my desk, I looked it up.

I don't have time to write about this subject fully, so I will make a quick post now and add a longer post later.

I thought a co-worker of mine was pulling my leg when he told me about the earthquake that hit Indiana this morning. A quick look at the news told me that he was serious.

I slept right through it.

I did, however, feel an aftershock just a few minutes ago. The building shook slightly for one or two seconds. It almost felt like a semi truck driving really close to the building... except that the road isn't close enough for them to effect us.

In today's day and age, almost everyone needs some office programs. Whether it is for writing a letter to a relative, making presentations for club meetings, or tracking the wins and losses of your favorite sports team, office suites are extremely useful.

Here is a hypothetical situation. You work on a very important document on your computer. You save it, knowing that you will need it later (although perhaps much later... maybe an annual report or something similar). You even back the file up, just to be sure.

Time passes. Maybe during that time you upgrade the software you used to create that document (to a newer version of the same software, but still, a newer version). Or maybe you got a new computer, which came with a newer version of the software.

I wanted to post this last night, but I didn't have time. To a large extent, I still don't know what to think about it.

First, a little background.

For the last six years, I have been a board member of the Hancock County Youth As Resources (YAR). For the last four or five years, I have been a board member of the Youth As Resources of Central Indiana (YARCI). And for the last two years, I have also been on the county United Way board.

It is official. I am now a member of both MySpace and Facebook, and have been for about a week.

Users of MySpace can find me at http://www.myspace.com/jkcorfy (I wanted "corfy", but it was already taken).

I'm really starting to like OGG.

For those not familiar, OGG, short for Ogg Vorbis, is an audio file format that is an open alternative to MP3. I have had a few OGG files that I could listen to on my computer, but since my old MP3 player couldn't read the OGG format, I really haven't looked that much into it.

However, since my newest MP3 player can run Rockbox, and Rockbox can read OGG files just fine, I did a quick experiment. I pulled out a CD, and made one song into an MP3, and then made that same song into an OGG file.

I got my new MP3 player today.

I was expecting a SanDisk Sansa e260 version 2, which is the latest model. While what I got was brand new, I actually got the version 1 of the player instead of version 2.

Some people might be a bit upset at getting the older version. I couldn't be happier.

You see, version 1 let me install Rockbox, which is an open-source software application that runs on the player itself. Rockbox doesn't work yet on version 2.

This week looks to be fairly busy, and Thursday seems to be especially busy (even without it being Valentine's Day), so I gave my Valentine's Gift to Gayle a little early.