On Nov 29, 2007 4:14 PM, TJ Heaney <<a href="mailto:tjheaney@gmail.com">tjheaney@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> As a new-to-developing-in-linux-and-Ubuntu guy, I wouldn't have a clue where to start. But I am interested in learning, would anyone be interested in taking on an apprentice, and not in the Sith sort of way? </blockquote> </div> I was thinking more along the lines of a web page that sits on the desktop that the end user can open up and read.  Programs that start up when you start your system the first time tend to get closed as quickly as possible without much reading because people want to get to using the system. John Edwards -- Rule #1 of working in any creative field in the 21st century should be: Your Fans Are Not The Enemy. Charlie Stross.