So, looks like our second heir is going to be a boy. Technology told me today he looks good.

Today is the day when I switched my gateway^W"UUCP-to-SMTP thingie" back from FreeBSD to Linux, approximately 10 years after the opposite switch.

Life is like a box of chocolates. You start with a prototype written in Python, recode it in C++, clean it up a little bit, try the whole thing out and it goes all PPPFFFFFFFFRT -- Anonymous

I just tried Need for Speed Carbon on PS3. A game in which you have to do speeding in a city, drive in the wrong direction on the highway, evade cops and participate to some sort of gang wars (just by speeding, no guns here, it seems. Go wonder). It seems to be an OK game, although not quite as good as the GTA series or Need for Speed 3 "Hot Pursuit". But I really liked the disclaimer which was approximately "life is not a game, don't be a fool, safety first: fasten your seat belt." Wow. I can imagine the guy from the legal department saying "the law wants us to put a disclaimer for the seat belt, so we put a disclaimer for the seat belt."

Right.

Not sure I mentioned it here but I really appreciate working in a multicultural environment. It's very interesting and I particularly like the way disagreement is expressed depending on people's cultural background. For example, when I don't agree with something, I tend to be like "No offence... but I DISAGREE, you are WRONG, WRONG, and I'm going to murder your father, burn your mother, marry your sister and force her to eat raw monkeys for breakfast" whereas American colleagues, for example, would say something like "sounds good to me, but not sure it's what you want to do".

Good fun, overall.

I just installed the latest Ubuntu beta and I'm impressed. There's this command-not-found package that's as simple as fantastic. If you type a non-existent command, it tells you where to find it and how to install the relevant package:

$ emacs
The program 'emacs' can be found in the following packages:
 * emacs21-nox (You will have to enable component called 'universe')
 * emacs22
 * emacs-snapshot (You will have to enable component called 'universe')
 * e3 (You will have to enable component called 'universe')
 * emacs-snapshot-nox (You will have to enable component called 'universe')
 * emacs22-gtk (You will have to enable component called 'universe')
 * emacs21 (You will have to enable component called 'universe')
 * emacs22-nox
 * jove (You will have to enable component called 'universe')
Try: sudo apt-get install 
-su: emacs: command not found

I think it's just brilliant. This thing works with some versions of bash (using the command_not_found_handle() extension from Debian) and zsh (by fiddling with preexec() and precmd()). I don't know if it'll annoy me after a while but, right now, I love it.

Studies have proven that the amount of paperwork to apply for 35-year mortgage in Ireland is slightly smaller than the one required to rent an apartment in Paris.

Think about it. Really thing about it. Mull it over. Mull it the fuck over.

"Happy birthday to you, me! Happy birthday to you, me! Happy birthday to yoooooou, me! Happy birthday to you, me!" -- my daughter

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This reminds me of an Internet Explorer for Solaris CD I got in the mail
in ... 1999? It said "bringing the Internet to UNIX".

-- an anonymous friend