The days lately have been pretty busy at work. We’re preparing roadmaps for calendar year 2009 and its kept me busy defining our strategies for new and updated products around our core platforms. I’m more of a classic product manager at work and tend to get involved in all phases of our products, their support, knowledge bases, maintenance. I think the company appreciates the effort and my boss tends to tell me often that the work is superb and he appreciates the extra effort.
Its Friday night though and there is no work to do tomorrow. I have a few things I want to get done over the next days. One is to have some man sodas that will smooth the week away. They always leave me in a relaxed state, having some alone time, considering not very much at all.
I’ve been messing with Ubuntu 8.10 for about a week now. Its mostly good but there are some frustrations. The keyboard repeat rate seems all fubared and often makes a clickety clackety thing and adds extra keys when I least want them. This does not exist on Hardy. The core operating system seems nice but its hardly revolutionary. Its more of a small jump forward in the punctuated equilibrium of Linux distributions. It also seems more full of fluff and stuff. Almost like a Winnie the Pooh of a distribution almost bursting at its seams sometimes. Still, its light years nicer than the rpm distributions I’ve grown to hate and I like its release mantra.
I could go back to classic Debian but it irritates me as well with its staggered release schedules. I could run Sid there though and that would be fun 
I’ll try to return to this environ this weekend and write something of more reason. For now, its Man Soda time!
