Shane Fagan

I had an insane idea. I thought how about installing the Ubuntu netbook remix launcher and run it inside Gnome-Shell. It turns out that it looks awesome. I love it

Ubuntu 9.10 looks awesome and works really well. Congrats to everyone who made it happen. In particular the DX team who did some great work with the new theme, icons and an even cooler version of notify-osd. It is by a mile the best Ubuntu version yet. Great job guys and gals, I cant wait [...]

I was thinking about how windows 7 was a threading topic for the past few days. When ubuntu 9.10 comes out we should hit twitter with a load of tweets too. Its a great way to advertise.

I was asked by Seif Lotfy to take over zeitgeist’s parental control system. I made a wiki page and a project on launchpad. I want to have a beta available for the Lucid UDS (thanks canonical for the sponsorship).
Unlike openDNS its going to use zeitgeist so we will be getting info from the applications directly [...]

From my last post (http://shanefagan.com/2009/10/10/control/) I had one question more.
What words would you not want your kids searching? So if you were writing a blacklist what would be on it?
(Dont write your replies in the comments please)
Send your answers to my email shanepatrickfagan@ubuntu.com

This is a little bit controversial so try to keep it clean.
Also I dont have kids, im just interested what people think.

When is too young to be on the internet?
We are in the internet generation its about as common now as electricity and water. Its in everyones homes. Kids who are growing up at this [...]

Really I love ubuntu you get everything for nothing. I heard the pricing for windows 7 and I nearly collapsed Windows 7 Professional is $299, Ultimate is $319, Home Premium is $199. Those prices are very bad. Like my computer cost 400 and it came with Vista basic and if I got Windows 7 Ultimate [...]

I just tried the new version of epiphany in karmic that uses webkit and its very nice. Of course I did some moving around and removing of stuff from the UI but now its uncluttered and simple.

I have been a firefox user for about 3 years now but now firefox is becoming a little out [...]

Lucid Lynx: Codename for Ubuntu 10.04
Lucid (Adjective): Easily understandable, clearly perceived.
I decided to continue the previous post from Brian Curtis. My vision for ubuntu 10.04 is….a stable, well thought out, intelligent OS.
We have file sharing now with ubuntu one but so much more can be done. Id love to see everything of importance (this includes [...]