Andy Fitzsimon has a nice tutorial on his blog, showing how you can create cool effects in Inkscape using spiro. Mind that you need the most recent build (0.47) in order to do this fancy stuff. The tutorial can be found here.
example of spiro
I wanted to switch from Kubutu to Xubuntu, this all went fine except the splash screen. The startup splash still was the Kubuntu one. In order to change this to the following:
Select the option of your Xubuntu splash screen. Reload the spash with:
After installing Xubuntu in VMWare I noticed that it had the wrong timezone set up. In order to change the timezone execute (as root) the following:
Yesterday, we went to the birthday of a friend of mine. As a present he asked everyone for money so he could buy something expensive. On the internet I found this video showing how to fold a t-shirt from a bill. Quite original to give 
folded shirt