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As a Linux/Unix guy and complete Apple fanboy, there is very little room for Windows in my world. So, when my new employer provided me a fine piece of Dell hardware complete with Windows XP, all I could do was shrug with my head down low. "Well", I thought, "At least it can run Linux" was the first thing I thought of.

Unfortunately for me, work had bogged me down for nearly a year. Yes, I was forced to run that craptastic operating system for that long. But then Ubuntu 9.10 beta came out complete with a shiny new Gnome 2.28, and I suddenly had the urge to start backing things up; cause this fine piece of Dell hardware was about to get a transplant.

So, I'm backing up application preferences, license keys and important documents, deleting them from the disk when they were complete. Then I noticed that after emptying my recycle bin, that the icon on the desktop still looked like there was 'trash' in it. So I tried to empty it again and WTF? Mr. Craptastic made a prediction and it was about to come true. Yes, Windows wanted to delete 'WINDOWS' from my recycle bin. Shocked, I busted out laughing; coworkers looked cross-eyed at me. But seriously, it was so fitting for the situation and yet so utterly random that I had to take a screengrab.

On July 2nd, 2008, I was interviewed by Karen Greenwood Henke from Nimble Press about the future of Video on Demand in public education. The interview took place at the National Educational Computing Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Here's a link to the article which is posted on the Long Tail Learners Blog.

I created a simple video of our booth at the Texas Computer Education Association conference in Austin and placed it on YouTube. The video shows the booth during and after construction. Among being responsible for architecting the video-on-demand product itself, I had to create a temporary network to showcase the on-demand, webcasting and podcasting capabilities.