Gnome Nautilus "Spatial"
This spatial Nautilus thing is a neat idea conceptually. It is meant to make Nautilus more user friendly in much the same way the classic Macintosh Finder was a pleasure to use. This involved some interesting changes, whereby the toolbar and sidebar have disappeared. Moreover, the navigation method has gone back to a multiple-window mode. Here is my interesting quote from #gnome-hackers:

"I use $HOME as desktop, and so all my folders are easily accessible from the desktop, so I don't need multiple windows cluttering my workspace, since I can't use multiple workspaces because I get confused because not all the windows are easily accessible, which is a good rationale for having fewer windows with Nautilus (aka not spatial)."

My Grade 5 teacher (Mr. Kennedy) would call this a diarrhea sentence.

The Awesomeness of Allegro
Being bored (not really) and wanting to try something new, I decided I would try to compile the project Markus and I wrote for OAC computers class under Linux. It's interesting, because my interests at the time were exclusively 3D Studio Max, and so I did the graphics, and little else. I did know that Markus had used mingw and Allegro to build this thing. I figured it must be buildable under Linux and pure g++, so I emerged allegro and tried compiling. Fifteen minutes later, I was playing!

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