Finally sorted through everything from Royal Hunt.

The crazy, awesome, cheerful Za! from Barcelona. The most memorable performance at the whole SKIF.

Today I installed the new Ubuntu 12.04. Before that I had been using 11.04, I think. Anyway, I definitely skipped one Ubuntu release, sparing myself from using the new Unity, whose first version was horrifying.

In the new version Unity has become much more convenient; many obvious things were improved, and it was the absence of those things in the first version that made it horrifying. A lot has clearly been copied from Mac OS, in my opinion, but that is even for the better. What is pleasing is that they take advantage of the fact that modern screens are stretched horizontally, so you need to save vertical space and use the often-unused space on the sides. But that is not what this is about.

Ubuntu ships with their Ubuntu One cloud service out of the box. I got curious about what it is like.

A birthday present for @theproof from Dasha and me. I put a lot of effort into it: ran around, made arrangements, tracked people down, and laughed myself to death while editing. Happy birthday, Vanya :)

The idea was simple: birthday greetings for Vanya from his favorite musicians. By coincidence, it was he who introduced Dasha and me to the music of all the musicians who took part in the video. With the possible exception of Psikheya — the credit there goes to @stay_positive. I was really glad that the guys who appeared in the video so readily agreed to participate. They are all listed in the credits. Hooray!

I should stop recording audio through the camera's microphone. It really doesn't come out very well.