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Unity from our Ubuntu Netbook Edition. I absolutely love it. You can try it out easily by just running: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-dx-team/une sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-netbook-unity-default-settings It is also packaged for Maverick in the repositories, just install unity.

I am pleased to announce that from Wed 11th – Sun 15th August principle recording for the second Severed Fifth album will take place. Within the five day recording session, taking place primarily between 10am – 6pm Pacific I will be recording all the guitars, bass, and solos, and finalizing much of the drums, before [...]

It is not long until the Community Leadership Summit 2010 from 17th -18th July in Portland and it is shaping up to be an awesome event! We have a wonderful collection of community leaders, managers and enthusiasts coming, and the event is entirely free to attend. I just wanted to remind you of a few [...]

I just wanted to provide you lovely people with another update about Severed Fifth my Creative Commons and Free Culture music project. There is lots going on, and here are some of the details: I launched Severed Fifth Fair Pay as what I believe is the fairest way of providing an opportunity for Severed Fifth [...]

In just over a month the Community Leadership Summit 2010 will be kicking off in Portland, Oregon; taking place the weekend before OSCON. The event takes place on 17th – 18th July 2010. I started organizing this event last year, and it was a great success, with an awesome collection of attendees. The Community Leadership [...]

I just wanted to blog about some of the cool things going on recently in Severed Fifth land: Severed Fifth Used In Video Soundtracks – one of the most wonderful elements of licensing your content under a Creative Commons license means that other creative types can use your content. It turns out a bunch of [...]

Some of you may be familiar with the game Frets On Fire; a free equivilent to the rather awesome Guitar Hero series of games. For some time now I have dreamed about having a special Frets On Fire: Severed Fifth Edition version of the game, with all Severed Fifth songs available to play. Well, this [...]

Today I am tickled pink to launch the brand new Severed Fifth website, hereby beginning the second phase of the project. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Severed Fifth, it was a project I set up to see how far an unknown musician (me) could take his music when releasing it under a [...]

Yesterday I announced that the new Severed Fifth website is launched on Monday, and with it will begin the second phase of the project and the build-up to the second album. For the first album I ran out of steam as I had just signed up to do The Art Of Community for O’Reilly and [...]

For those of you who are curious about the next steps for Severed Fifth; my Creative Commons music project: On Monday I launch the brand new website. Writing for the second album is nearly complete and I will be streaming the entire recording sessions live. I have created a new Severed Fifth Twitter account, so [...]