I like the looks of the new interface, but am rather concerned it might put people off by being too different from Windows.

I've been playing around with soft lighting in the GIMP, and I think one innovation I'd like to see come up (in X-windows or wherever) would be to allow users to "tint" the whole desktop with a particular color scheme and pattern... something that can hit the windows and wallpaper evenly not unlike the sun is currently hitting my monitor, only not so bright, blurry and distracting.

Think looking at a monitor with the faint reflection of light hitting rippling water... ahh, soothing!

It's a strange time right now. So much of the economy seems hinged on perception rather than reality. Hopefully this means we pull out of the recession sooner than if everybody (anybody??) was paying attention to the books.

By the way, I've noticed that newspapers are beginning to shift to making their websites their primary focus for content. Locally, they're starting to treat this as an opportunity to compete with broadcast news by producing their own video for the website. It's a work-in-progress, to be sure, but perhaps that's another angle to look at between your online media skillset and your video production company?

Anyway, I hope things turn out alright for you folks.

Fuck trolling. Every time I start getting into a good thread about the relative merits of the GPL vis a vis the BSD license, or a deep legal examination of the ramifications of massive copyright theft, or the advantages of using strongly statically typed languages like Perl over Python for implementing LAMP servers... whammo, there's something gaping, oozing, or epitheting the middle of a decent conversation.

Enough already. Why don't you guys go troll a worthier target already, like the mainstream media or Canada. We're trying to literally make the future of the Internet here and you're ruining all over it.