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Gael Duval is the creator of Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva, since the merger with Connectiva Linux). Gael left Mandriva in March 2006 and went on to start a new project called Ulteo. Mandrake was the first distro I persuaded to install and was, for some time, my alternate work PC. Interestingly, he was fairly quiet on the whole Ulteo project for some time - I guess he wanted to concentrate on setting it up and getting it working before talking about it. So what’s it all about?

I am going to assume that everyone who reads this blog is savvy enough to know about Google apps and to have, at least, tried them out for at least a few minutes. This is similar but bigger. Ulteo is an entire desktop available via your internet browser. It’s based on Ubuntu and gives you everything you need to be fairly productive as long as you have access to an internet connected PC. In the spirit of Linux, you can create an account and use it for no cost. So what does it look like? It looks like this:

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If you browse through my Links page, clicking merrily away, you will have seen that I link to Yirmumah - a funny site, you should read it - by D J Coffman. For a few years now he has been publishing his strips in book format and selling them to readers around the world. Well, he is now able to offer them free for downloading. At least, you can download them if you live in the US.

Wowio is a site where you can download 3 books per day in pdf format. These books are sponsored and the author (or their estate) gets money per download. They have comic books, fiction, nonfiction and a variety of other books. And the price is right. So if you would like to enable lesser known and better known creators to get money when you click that mouse button, this is a worthwhile site. It’s easy to navigate and pretty well laid out.

The books download to your hard drive and you can then read them at your leisure whether on your PC or laptop or PDA device. As the help page states:
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Anyone who looks at my Links page (which is, admittedly, tricky since the link to the Links page disappeared) will have seen a … link … to Hero By Night comic. UPDATE….. TheLinks link is back now…..

A little backstory: aside from occasionally checking out graphic novels from the library (Neil Gaiman, DC, Marvel and, of course, Judge Dredd) and that mostly to relive my childhood, I haven’t really read a comic book for around 20 years. I watch justice league on the box, if it’s on, I’ll watch other cartoons - but none seriously. They just don’t …. talk to me in the same way.

I happened across a link to Yirmumah ages ago. If you don’t already read it, go there now and read all the archived issues. Go on, I can wait. Go on. I’m not going to continue until you have read all the archived issues. And I will be testing you on this later.
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Monkey Kick Off has to be one of the most frustrating games I have played. The site gives this gem as instructions for playing:

It’s easy to play Monkey kick off - simply click your left mouse button or press any key on your keyboard to have Monkey kick the ball. Remember, you need to time it just right. Here’s a hint from Monkey himself:

“It’s all about the laws of physics. Think speed and angle for monster kicks.”

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