I have made a tutorial on setting up ALSA. It is much more simple than the one in the Arch Linux wiki. Hope you like it!

KDE 4.0: From this...I have been using KDE 4 even before it was a golden release. I started using it when KDE 4.0 was in the betas. I was impressed with it, especially plasma, even though it was extremely limited. You couldn't move the widgets around it, you couldn't change the size...it was a big giant panel fixed to the bottom of the screen. There wasn't even a native Kontact program! When KDE 4.0 was released, people complained saying it should have waited six more months.

The new theme for Archux is now complete! As you can see, it is much cleaner looking and everything is now styled properly. It also works better in lower resolutions. Enjoy!

I said I would have the new layout ready for the end of the week, but unfortunately I haven't had the time due to my work experience. For those who don't know what it is, it is when I go to try working in a real job for two weeks. Sometimes it is one week. It has been very tiring working from 9 to 5...I'm used to 9 to 3 Well it definitely shows you how the workplace really is!!

I recently bought half of the first season of Fullmetal Alchemist on DVD. I got it from Play.com for £18, which is pretty good to be honest. It has over 6 and a half hours of episodes on it! I have watched up to the 6th episode, and I am really into it now. I'm going to be buying the next half very soon

In other news, I'm in the process of making a cleaner (and original) layout for Archux. I have based it on a foundation like theme. At the moment, it isn't looking that impressive...I expect to have it up by the end of the week, with new tutorials included

I recently have gotten into anime. Before, the only anime I watched was Avatar: The Last Airbender. Now I watch Lucky Star, Yu Yu Hakusho and Full Metal Alchemist. I love Lucky Star because it's so random - that's what makes it so funny. I found Yu Yu Hakusho from a YouTube video with a Tetris remix, who would have thought that would have started something off like this? Watching that video inspired me to watch anime for some reason.

We have now moved away from Dreamhost to TuxFamily, which is saving me £70.00 a year. Although I now have to pay for a domain name, it's price is insignificant so it doesn't matter

Also I have noticed TuxFamily is so much faster than Dreamhost! For some reason everything has sped up. I'm not complaining, I love it!

I live with people that rely on Windows for production use, so I can't really get them to use Linux. So I have to make do with Windows, Windows XP to be exact. I tried Vista before (for quite a long time - not just 20 minutes or something like some people do) and I hated it..

I have just noticed that YouTube have added a few small features to make everything a little bit better.

YouTube progress barHovering over a place in the progress bar will show a balloon with the time on it, which can help with finding previous times easier.

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope was released on the 23rd of April. If you're using a previous release, is it worth it to upgrade?