I needed to see a video recommended by my cousin but it required Silverlight. I should have booted into Vista and downloaded Siverlight, but without thinking I found the equivalent for Linux, Moonlight, and installed it.
Big mistake.
It all ran smoothly, however, thanks to instructions from Tim’s Moonlight Installation Page and those who want Moonlight have [...]

I’ve just updated my Open Source and Free Software page, in case anyone is interested ;>)

As a writer, one of my disappointments with Ubuntu has been a decent English-English dictionary and thesaurus. I’d tried Stardict,. and I think Moby Thesaurus, but couldn’t get them going. I’ve compensated by installing the excellent windows program WordWeb, via Wine.
But poor old WordWeb, while it works, looks a bit lame in Ubuntu (I [...]