Nice Specs

The Google Glass demo from Google I/O is without a doubt the most spectacular tech demo I've ever seen. Bit of behind-the-scenes footage for the demo here, part of the keynote about Glass here.

ETA: The TechCrunch writeup is also pretty good.

Ubuntu Pangolin

The latest Ubuntu release (a long-term support release, 12.04 "Precise Pangolin") is at least much improved from the last release (I finally upgraded a few weeks ago). A lot of the problems with the last release are fixed. Still not totally used to Unity, but this one's worth the upgrade.

There are still some hiccups: Previously-working hibernate support is disabled, and when I re-enabled it on my release it didn't work. IM program Empathy has terrible issues (but I don't really use it).

Heading to Sandy

My family was in town this week (minus my sister, who's once again counseloring at Centauri). This coming week, we'll be at Sandy Island Camp (25th year for my folks, 22nd for me (missed one for Israel, one for Japan, and one for a summer job)). This year, Julie will be joining us, too. *excitement*

Per my usual, I'm leaving my computer and phone at home and will be taking it easy and enjoying the lovely scenery and reading a ton. I'll be offline from tomorrow (June 30) to July 7.

Also looking forward to lots of kayaking, if the weather stays good.