Impressively bad interpretation of statistics.

"But an offer to chat or of an email address right off the bat is a sure turn off." - http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/09/14/online-dating-advice-exactly-what-to-say-in-a-first-message/

They are judging success by reply rate. Within okcupid. So if, say, the person used the chat or email information....

VDPAU support in new official Ubuntu Karmic package of mplayer.

VDPAU is nvidia hardware acceleration of video decoding. Particularly of interest is H.264 (blu-ray), since one core of my CPU isn't enough to keep up with 1080p H.264 (and the x264 codec isn't threaded). It's nice.

The Karmic package can be installed without fully upgrading to Karmic via apt pinning: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto

The official ubuntu package just came out today. I just tested it.

Default ubuntu chat client forces you to save passwords.

The default chat client in Karmic, the next Ubuntu release, is empathy, and it forces you to save all passwords.

Complain here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/118800
(Or let me know if you have a better idea.)

Update: This is now marked high priority for the Karmic release, so I expect it to get fixed.