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Welcome to the new look JaredQuinn.info website.
This website previously was a collection of programming and computer related posts, however there is much more to me than just my work. While I create a lot, I also consume a lot of creativity, media, music, television and movies and am also involved in sports, one sport, to be specific, Women's Flat Track Roller Derby - I referee and coach... Occasionally I might post about this stuff.
Most recently, I've posted about:
Recently I began teaching myself Python, primarily to extend and enhance the addons available for the open source home theatre PC solution, XBMC.
I found Python simple to learn and a whole wealth of resources out there, libraries and documentation and example. I decided to push things and see what I could easily achieve.
At some point over the last year it appears Google made a change to the location of it's Linux apt repositories. This required me to manually change them to install the later versions of the Google products on my new Ubuntu Oceiric (11.10) installation.
There's been a good handful of releases since Warty back in 2004 and once again we're rolling around to the launch date of a new version of Ubuntu - Oneiric Ocelot. Ubuntu releases seem to attract a lot of attention across the 'net, for something that happens as regular as clockwork every 6 months - but this release certainly holds a few things worthy of commenting on.