Dude, you just missed a chance to make the #1 Google result for your name a Slashdot article that explains the situation.

"We should try to make science more sexy and more fun and more like a game." In context, I think that's the scariest quote I've heard all year. Somebody notify the SciFi channel: all those movies where a killer zombie (or vampire) virus is created by the government or a university lab? Nope, it was made in somebody's garage in LA.

Hate to be a Negative Nancy here, but I gotta disagree with Mark on this one. Notifications should have actions associated with them. I don't WANT to see "Wifi signal lost" followed immediately by "Wifi signal found". (My Windows installation does this and it drives me crazy!) The only important type of notification is one that prompts a user response, such as "CD burning finished" (action: eject), "Bob sent you a chat!" (action: reply), or "New kernel installed" (action: reboot). I WANT to be interrupted to be told these things. And I can handle notifications that present multiple actions to choose from. Example: "Download finished!" (actions: Open file, Open containing folder) If it's a freedesktop.org spec, support the FULL spec, or we'll risk the spec becoming obsolete. Only supporting a subset will do to notifications what Internet Explorer does to CSS.

What's happened to all the "But does it run Linux?" comments?

Also, will it blend?