I've just completed a book review for my LUG:
We have been given quite a few books by O'Reilly and Apress to review. I can't say that every book we have been given has been reviewed, but quite a few have, and I feel we've made some contribution to the community.
Someone in my LUG posted this last week:
http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2009/03/31/shopping-delivered-by-ubuntu-linux/
Microsoft's recent multi-million dollar advertising campaign has been driving me nuts. Suddenly splashed across my TV screen is some clueless person claiming "I'm a PC". No where during the advert is any actual software or hardware shown - somewhat reminiscent of the old OS/2 adverts...
A long time ago I gave my retired father a computer. Having previously given my mother a computer with Windows 98 on and not being a success for my father I planned things differently and achieved a quite different result.
I wrote my story and ideas down in various places, giving a talk at my local LUG and even getting a short paper published in the British Human Computer Interactions Group "Interface" magazine.
