Here’s a video that shows just some of the reasons I *heart* Ubuntu. It shows how an average person can have a complete and working operating system on an old donated computer in ten minutes or so. From Librarian.net.

…because that’s the kind of mood I’m in.

Saige is on a stickers reward system for not waking me up at 2am every night. Ten stickers = a new puzzle. It seems to be working. She wants those stickers BAD.
I have taken over all household bill paying. No more of this doing everything in in [...]

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an [...]

Firefox is great, but everybody knows it has an Achilles heel: massive memory sucking. I have had sessions that have eventually brought my computer down to a crawl, often after I have minimized what I was doing and then come back to it later (as you might imagine, I get interrupted around here a lot). [...]

Playground Tales with Brooke Shields
How hilarious it would be to start talking like this next time we’re at the playground.

An interesting article my mother just forwarded me on family sleep problems.
By the way, I will try to investigate what is causing Movable Type to be so hypervigilant about moderating comments soon. It’s been automatically flagging everything, good and bad, so that’s why you haven’t seen your comments show up right away. It’s MT’s analness, [...]