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The spacing between sidebar items is a little long. Other then that, I don't see any problems. You might want to tweak the typography though. Good job!

There are plenty of alternatives to the default music player in Ubuntu, most notably Banshee and Amarok. iTunes is actually pretty horrible on Windows. It's a good strategy of Apple's to make you use their proprietary software though.

To install programs, you can either use the Synaptic manager (applications/add-remove) or download and install using a bit of command line wizardry.

As for eye-candy, most of it is disabled by default. You can do all sort of cool (and pointless) things by messing around with themes and Compiz. My thinkpad broke and is getting repaired, so right now I'm stuck using a very old Sony Vaio running Ubuntu. Ubuntu saved it - it was unable to do the most basic tasks in Windows. Now it's fully functional, if slow.

Nice blog! Keep it up!

When I was in Australia, I went to Fraser Island. It's pretty awesome. We went and had a picnic, and swam in a lake on the island. It was freezing, but the water was crystal clear.