Ubuntu Brainstorm is quite nice. I submitted my first idea today:

I had some trouble booting into my computer earlier this week. It’s fixed now, but the Universal Applets release that I promised will be delayed by a few days.

I’m reposting a shortened version of this email to the Gnome-love list. The bolded bit talks about the project’s current status.
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I’m trying to fix the problem by creating a universal applets framework for GNOME that’s mostly based on Screenlets. The goal is to create a common applet format that can be easily loaded into any [...]

Update: Please see this forum thread for details.
What is “Desktop 2.0?”
“Desktop 2.0″ is to the operating system what Web 2.0 is to the Internet. The following are the key elements of Desktop 2.0 (unless you’re new to Linux, you may want to skip a large part of the following explanation and go directly to here):

Mini [...]

For those of you that haven’t been following on the Awn forums, I wrote Awn Terminal, my first applet for Awn, last week.
I’ve put in some more work (and spent some time wondering whether its even possible to come up with a more unintuitive system than gconf), and version 0.4 is now done.
Instead of listing [...]

I know that lately, I haven’t blogged much about anything. I’ve been dealing with problems on my server, and in most of my free time I’ve been playing around with Linux. This week, for the first time since I downloaded Ubuntu Linux a few months ago, I spent more time using Linux then Mac [...]