Here is my current desktop. Seen in the picture are Pidgin (IM client), Swiftfox (special version of Firefox web browser), Banshee (iTunes-like application), Cairo-clock, and Avant Window Navigator. I've also applied a custom theme to make everything dark, which matches AWN and the wallpaper.

This is just a cover I did of the song "Hysteria" by (again) the band "Muse". I did it basically because I wanted to see how well I could do a cover, over the original track of a song. A lot of the videos on YouTube are pretty low-quality, with the person usually playing the music out of their speakers, and the guitar out of their amp, and recording all of this by an internal webcam or laptop microphone. The problem is, for this type of a recording, there is just way too much sound for that little microphone to handle. So I tried something different...

Just a quick update, since it is almost 5am...

Anyway, I spent the last few hours recording this version of "Citizen Erased" by the band Muse . I think it turned out pretty well, considering that I had to record each part (in some instances multiple parts) one at a time, and I had to also re-sync some of them in the editing process. I'm going to get the bass part laid down next time my brother is around (he's the bass player in the family).

So if you would like to check it out, here it is . 

I was fortunate enough to get ahold of a Joost beta account before they (basically) made it public today (I was granted access a few weeks ago). Unfortunately, I use Ubuntu as you all know, and when I tried to install Joost via Wine...I didn't have a lot of success:

Installing Joost in Ubuntu via Wine