<p>OK, I can&#8217;t take it anymore. I&#8217;m ordering a <a href="http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index15.html">15&#8221; powerbook</a> tonight.</p>

<p>The fans in my company-Dell Inspiron 4100 are louder than my old whitebox PIII-500. The 20 GB hard drive has me deleting MP3&#8217;s just to emerge packages in <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/">gentoo</a>. It doesn&#8217;t have a cd burner. The screen adds a pink glow to everything when first warming up. The cheap plastic makes flexing noises when I pick it up. It is nearly 90% replaced-under-warranty hardeware. Hate hate hate hate hate hate.</p>

<p>Linux has been my primary (only) operating system for the past two years or so and the 15&#8221; powerbook is not yet supported fully by Linux &#8212; strange times indeed, I&#8217;ll have to use shareware and non-free software occasionally. Gasp. </p>

<p>I&#8217;m still looking forward to it a lot. ;)</p>

<p>Groklaw is carrying a complete adaption of The Grinch Who Stole Chrismas relating <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031106164630915">SCO</a>&#8216;s story. Great stuff.<br />

SCO had been caught by this little GNU daughter
who’d got out of bed for a cup of cold water.
She stared at SCO and said, “SCO, why,
“Why are you taking our free Linux? WHY?”

<p>But, you know, that <span class="caps">SCO</span> was so smart and so slick<br />

They thought up a lie, and they thought it up quick!

“Why, my sweet little tot,” the two-faced leader lied,

“There’s code on this tree that won’t work on my side.

“So we’re taking it home to our workshop, my dear.

“We’ll fix it up there. Then we’ll bring it back here.”

<p>And their fib fooled the child. Then they patted her head<br />

And they got her a drink and they sent her to bed.

And when Cindy-Lou GNU went to bed with her cup,

They went to the chimney and stuffed the code up!

<p><a href="http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/release.php?id=768">It has arrived</a>.</p>

<p>I do not have a  verdict yet. I am leaning towards really liking it but have only heard a few tracks. Radio Nufonia gets a thumbs up if you can&#8217;t decide on which samples to give a listen&#8230;</p>

<p><a href="http://rss.com.com/2008-1014_3-5076942.html">good interview</a></p>

<p><blockquote><b>You&#8217;ve told reporters many times in the past that you&#8217;ve entered corporate networks without permission. Did you?</b></p>

Certainly not. (laughs) Yes, yes, I have.

<p><center><i>-/-snip-/-</i></center></p>

<p><b>You could have done some things differently to avoid being here today, no?</b></p>

I believe that everything that has brought me here has been in its own way part of the design for the world around me, and I have faith it’s going to work out for the best.

<p>&#8212;<br />

I wasn’t really interested in the guy before reading the interview — now i’m intrigued. Hrmmmm

<p>> cat .xinitrc | grep xmodmap
<ol>
	<li>xmodmap to turn caps lock into another shift key</li>
</ol><br />

Xmodmap -e “remove Lock = Caps_Lock”

xmodmap -e “remove Shift = Shift_L”

xmodmap -e “keysym Shift_L = Caps_Lock”

xmodmap -e “keysym Caps_Lock = Shift_L”

xmodmap -e “add Lock = Caps_Lock”

xmodmap -e “add Shift = Shift_L”

<p>Why? Because this is damned annoying:</p>

<p>E492: Not an editor command: WQ</p>

<p>Unless of course, you&#8217;ve modded your computer to use an <a href="http://www.ahleman.com/ElectriClerk.html">Underwood</a> typewriter as a keyboard.</p>

<p>Similar to this snippet from my .bashrc ;)</p>

<p>	<ol>
	<li>Silly aliases that actually help</li>
</ol><br />

alias :q!=“exit”

alias :wq=“exit”

alias :q=“exit”

<p><a href="http://www.jeffnoon.com/">Jeff Noon</a> has a new <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385602960/qid=1063153503/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/202-4778942-3129423">novel</a> now but it is only for sale in the UK.</p>

<p>I am ordering a copy yesterday and suggest all do the same.</p>

<p>I first read vurt around 95&#8217; or 96&#8217; and have loaned my copy out to more people than I can count on one hand, named more web sites, quake aliases, and irc handles after his creations than any other as well as my high school rock band (w/ erk and dan) &#8212; yes, I&#8217;m looking forward to reading this first novel in a long time.</p>

<p>quick list of jeff noon references i&#8217;ve leeched: jokerbone, pixeljuice, hobart, scribble, beetle, curious yellow&#8230;</p>

“Wesley Willis, the energetic 6’5”, 300-pound Chicago street musician who parlayed whimsical, spartan keyboard odes to his favorite products and indie rock musicians into a cult following, died on Thursday night at a hospice in Illinois; he was forty.”

<p><a href=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18568>http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=18568</a></p>

“I am a rock soloist..I am a rock singer on the Wesley Willis Fiasco”

<p>Radiohead<br />

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD

Wed, Aug 20, 2003. 6:30pm

<p>Section    Row    Type    Ticket Price    Building Facility Charge    Convenience Charge    Description </p>

<p>LAWN23        <span class="caps">ADULT</span>    $36.50    $3.50    $8.25
<span class="caps">PRICE</span> <span class="caps">LEVEL</span> 2<br />

GENERAL ADMISSION LAWN
LAWN23 ADULT $36.50 $3.50 $8.25
LAWN23 ADULT $36.50 $3.50 $8.25
LAWN23 ADULT $36.50 $3.50 $8.25

<p>Item    Charge <br />

Tickets (Radiohead)

ADULT $36.50 × 4

Total Building Facility Charge(s) $14.00

Total Convenience Charge(s) $33.00

Total Taxes $0.00

Order Processing Charge(s) $3.90

Standard Mail $0.00

<p><span class="caps">TOTAL</span> <span class="caps">CHARGES</span>    $196.90 </p>

<p>

Tickets still available people. The shows the 20th of this month. Be there!

<p><i>If the future had a slogan, what would it be?</i></p>

<p><a href="http://frontwheeldrive.com/philip_k_dick.html">PKD</a>: &#8220;God promises eternal life. We can deliver it.&#8221;</p>

<p>I really really really really enjoy reading <span class="caps">PKD</span> novels &#8212; the interview is neat. Even if you think you have no idea who <span class="caps">PKD</span> is, follow the link, the introduction will remind you.</p>

<p>Reading long passages of text in a browser is torture. This is only partly because of the screen. Also problematic is the number of words in a line which is often dynamic and when static intended for letter paper, lack of true page numbering and the innability to bookmark the currenlty <i>location</i> on a page in huge scrolling documents. Enter htmldoc &#8212; now I&#8217;m reading the same text in small trade paperback standard width, height and line-height with page numbering, headers and footers. Should I so desire, I can add a few more flags to my command and have a pdf ready to be printed and bound.</p>