Ubuntu 11.04

I updated yesterday. So far, so good. Well, mostly. The top 2 options in my boot menu don't actually work, they just load a black screen and I have to power off the machine and try again. But the next option works like a champ and I get some nifty new features. I hope to figure out what those are in the near future . . .

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