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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is finally out, and with it you now have Gnome out of the box.
I've been using Gnome for several years, and have enjoyed its minimalism. It took me some time to make it work like I wanted (keyboard, extensions, application menu, etc), but I'm quite happy with everything. Or almost everything....

5 years today, the world lost Aaron Swartz.
A death motivated by the judicial extremism of our government, and indirectly cuased by prosecutors who only cared about advancing their own careers, at any cost.
Aaron was only 26, but already had an extensive list of contributions to society, internet, freedom of expression, and much more. We can only imagine how much more he would have accomplished by now, particularly in the current political environment....

Exactly 14 years and 6 months ago to this day, I joined a small and weirdly named company called Impiric (formerly Wunderman Cato Johnson, later renamed back to Wunderman).
The company was already part of WPP, but it was mostly seen as the direct marketing arm of Y&R. At the time we were doing 1:1 programs via direct mail and the then nascent email/web, plus building CRM/data/analytics platforms for clients....

Juraj Vaculik, from AeroMobil
“Mark my word: A combination of an airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile. But it will come…”   [Henry Ford, 1940]
Flying cars are not something new. The idea has been going around since the 19th century, even before the very first flight by Santos-Dumont (or Wright Brothers, depending on your bias). But it was The Jetsons who first brought the concept of flying...