Most people don’t know what are muds, and many who knows would never touch them. But I personally like muds(Multi User Dungeon) very much. Muds aren’t so big as biggest MMORPG, but on largest muds, there is enough content for everyone. Example on my favorite, Batmud, there is over 15000 rooms to explore. Also the fighting/experience systems are very advanced. Main problem for some people is that there is no graphics at all, just the game. But what you can expect for over 15 years old massive multiplayer game?

But here is list why muds are so great. (especially Batmud)

• You can play them on any computer that can be connected to Internet
• It is Multi User game!
• Massive world
• Nice story and interesting task (not just “go kill all and come back”)
• Totally free, no “premium accounts”
• Friendly community

So, if you like games like Nethack, ADOM etc, I will recommend you to try out Batmud. It is the best Mud, and there is also a nice Batclient, that makes playing easier for beginners.

Ohloh is social website for aimed open source developers. It is also great way to find nice open source projects.

Anyone can add a open source project to Ohloh and then Ohloh uses svn (or git) to download projects source code for analyzing. After analyzing you can see how many lines of code is on example Vim, Firefox or even Linux Kernel. Also smaller projects are analyze not just, major softwares. There is also commit history and cool graphs that show amount of code lines.

There is also social part. Registered users can add information to profile and update a twitter like “journal”. The idea of journal is cool, but it is hard to get every one on project to use it actively.

Ohloh is great website for open source developer. I recommend it for everyone who writes open code and likes web 2.0 websites.

I really don’t know why I hate gnome, I just hate it. After moving from Kubuntu to Ubuntu, my productivity have drop dramatically and my computer have become unstable and slow. There is so many little things that I don’t like on gnome, and just 3 things why I like gnome.

First things I like on Gnome:

• Dropbox works (It requires nautilus)
• Firefox looks nice without changing theme (on kde with default settings, it looks horrible)
• Compiz works well

And then the bigger list, why I hate Gnome:

• Task manager/System managing
• Its slow (on my computer at least)
• It is unstable (KDE is stabler.)
• I don’t like panel system
• I don’t like nautilus
• I don’t like “simplicity”
• I don’t like terminal emulator
• I don’t like menus. (applications/places/system)
• I don’t like default colors
• I want my Amarok in native environment
• I want konqueror!

Yes, many things aren’t so big and can be fixed, but I like KDE, it works on me better than Gnome. I hate Gnome, but someone else may like it. (?)

So I will install something to my current system, Wmii or KDE. And when next Kubuntu release comes out, I will and download it and install it.

Update: installed kubuntu 8.04 now happy with it

Some time ago I found excellent music player called Songbird. It has cool iTunes like interface and it can be modified easily. Because it has been based on same XUL-engine that Firefox uses, you can install addons easily. Addons are automatically updated when new version come.

Best features:

• Customizable
• Themes
• Good last.fm Scrobbling integration
• Multi-platform
• SHOUTcast radio integration
• Smart playlists
• It is open source

But there is some bad things also. It is not as fast as Amarok (taking 125megs of memory!) and it doesn’t support PPC-processor on Mac. ( I don’t have Intel Mac ) So when I use KDE I will play my music on Amarok, when I have Gnome I will use Songbird and when I am on myMac I will use that annoying iTunes.

I am waiting for a 1.0 release…

Screenshot of my songbird

In this post, I will show you a list of websites where you can find some cool ideas and inspirations for websites design.

Web Creme >>

Simple and elegant website, often updated

Unmatched Style >>

Nice website, also links to resource sites.

Nice Stylesheet >>

Another nice gallery site.

Best Web Gallery >>

Simply the best web gallery.

Wordpress Theme Directory >>

If you are not looking for free WP theme, this site is still worth of visit. There is lots of cool themes where you can get ideas.