First of all this made me switch from KDE to Gnome (which i already used on my Debian powered laptop), and now, after some days of sadness and betrayal feelings, to another distro.

Since i was looking for a desktop oriented distro, i quickly discarded projects like Gentoo, Slackware and Zenwalk. At the same time i was willing to try something rather new… say fresher. Then i came to Mint.

Mint is an Ubuntu-based distro, basically a redistribution, which uses the same Ubuntu repository and some custom repos. In my case i’ve installed Mint 6, which derives from Ubuntu 8.04. This way i got a recent distribution without all the headaches of the latest version of Ubuntu (Ubuntu is also known for not-so-stable edge releases).

The nice spot, is that Mint comes with all proprietary drivers, and all plugins needed for the web, like Flash 10. By enabling Nvidia proprietary drivers it also turns on a subset of Compiz effects, which make the desktop fancier by keeping it light. Moreover it features a lot of handy utility to manage your software and system updates.

The desktop is now much lighter and the main advantage is that  i can use all of the Ubuntu and Debian softwares, pushing aside all the compiling sessions.

I know, some Linux purist will say that this is not real Linux, and distros are quickly forgetting what a console is… but i prefer spending my time on a piece of JS code, than installing a software from source!

Enough for a rambling…

In this rambling i want to share some cool websites where i always find inspirations or just a tune to make coding much more smooth and relaxing.

1. Digitally Imported Online Radio: check out trance and chillout channels, and never miss A State of Trance on thursday
2. Essential Mix: since 1993 this radio show features the best electronic DJs and artists all around the world.
3. Deezer: a great online and on-demand radio featuring a lot on genres and some cool french singers, just to grab something different.
4. Jamendo: You can listen albums, random playlists or donwload freely some good independent music from all around the world. Born as a french project, now it’s available in lots of languages and features a great community 2. Check out the electronic’s album list to listen to something you’ll never get in shops.

As last click, here is a great piece by Anders Trentemoller’s first album: The Last Resort titled Miss You. Enjoy it…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DUCKGyojpE

This evening im leaving to Normandy, France, and i’ll be back on 23rd.

Maybe after that i’ll be enough relaxed to pack some pieces of code i’ve written last weeks.

Take care and cya soon!

A bunch of years have passed since my last redesign of the Workroom, and happened so many things, from random thoughts to mindfillin projects. The only thing that seemed to remain awkwardly still was the website. Maybe in 2003 it was a nice piece of web; Flash was at its edge and i did my best to make it the main part of my project.

Now things have changed and i can finally show my new style to the web, tryin to keep it clear and clean as usual. This project involved a lot of my spare time, and a neverending process or rethinkin and restyling, trying to manage the less spare time i have (work work work!) and the fast changin world of the web.

Anyway, these are just few words to introduce the Dwight Jack Workoom 3.0.

Just to have a taste, jump to the download page of my last work “Ephemeral Sound” or check my new projects home, much more related to my work as a web developer… Or instead just have some amarcord on my old website.

Things keep changing and just some powder of what we’ve lived remains. We are like water.