Things I Like (what I have been working on in my absence)

• Open-source software
• Ubuntu (Operating System)
• easy to use (I'm seriously considering installing it on my parents' machines)
• secure
• hard to screw up
• Software Center -- get all of your programs for free from an "App-Store" like location, rather than hunting through the internet
• powerful
• I can do anything I would normally do on Windows or OSX on Ubuntu
• free
• better than OSX and Windows (surprisingly)
• people designing and developing software to better computing for everyone, simply because they enjoy it
• a lot of programs are superior to for-profit programs
• DIY (do it yourself) projects
• Programming
• Python (really easy, powerful programming language)
• learning to use a computer as a tool to create my own tools
• creating tools for other people to use (see open-source)
• Graphic Design
• open-source GD programs
• GIMP (Photoshop alternative)
• Inkscape (Illustrator alternative)
• web design
• fun blogs by graphic designers
• http://pishposhandsuch.blogspot.com/
• Web development
• web design
• Python for web