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I recently migrated from Firefox to the more cutting edge Firefox Nightly. As its name implies, Firefox Nightly is updated on a nightly basis. The reason for my switch initially was to get access to a 64-bit version of Firefox on my Windows 7 system. I fell in love with Nightly, so much so that I now use it on ALL of my computer systems. Unfortunately, there is no yum repository for Nightly yet (as far as I know), so I can't update Nightly automatically. My solution was to write my own Bash shell script to semi-automate the process. I just run the script once a day (late in the day so that I run it after the daily update). The script downloads the latest Nightly build for GNU/Linux, unpacks it, installs it, and then deletes all of the downloaded files.

When I saw this video, I knew that I had to share it. Since it is such a short time donation drive, I decided not to put it in Donation Central. However, it is wonderful that he is showing step by step how he is developing the game. Learn more by watching the video.

I have long wished that jazz music enjoyed a greater appreciation in the country of its birth. In my opinion, it is one of the greatest art forms ever created. The cliche has long been that "America's classical music" is only really appreciated overseas. I don't think that this is true. I think that the dearth of high quality pop music over the last decade or so is leading a lot of people to re-investigate jazz music.