Rumored $499 headless Mac

See this Think Secret article.

Word of the day: surfeit

The word of the day is definitely surfeit.

Feather Linux

One week away from the keyboard and I’m typing extraneous letters.

Right before we went on vacation–really, the night before–I set up a 128MB Memorex USB TravelDrive with Feather Linux. I look forward to playing with it on some systems. Too bad my laptop doesn’t boot from USB devices.

Back

We returned today from a trip to paradise. Well, someplace nice, at least. I read the Tristan Betrayal by “Robert Ludlum(TM)” and Angels and Devils by Dan Brown. But don’t get the wrong idea: I only read at appropriate times. For example, I almost never read at a table with other people.

How were the books, you ask? Both were quite enjoyable, thanks.

Dillo on Libretto

Set up Dillo 0.8.3 on the Libretto today. From an RPM. Nice. Went in without a hitch!

There’s a browser with real self-esteem. It knows what it’s for. It doesn’t have designs on the throne; it’s made its OWN throne. It does what it does. And that sure helped me today on my underpowered (shame on me!) little Libby.

Riddick!

I saw Riddick last Saturday with Marr. Thanks for letting me stay all night and all day, Marr!

Well, my lady saw Riddick today. All I can say is, “Vin Diesel has a spell on her,” because she liked it.

The Open CD

I was introduced to The Open CD today by a Slashdot article.

The Open CD is a downloadable ISO image containing several Windows versions of Open Source projects, including FireFox, FileZilla, AbiWord and much more.

I’m going to make them stocking stuffers for my Windows-savvy friends and family this season.

Mambo coming along

I moved my website from flat HTML to Mambo this weekend.

Today I set up a Mambo site at the office. I hope it will replace our flat intranet. I also hope to extend it to become an extranet eventually.

Mambo

Screw it. Tonight I decided to give Mambo a try.

I’m building (emerge-ing) apache with PHP, Zlib and XML support and PHP with XML and Zlib support.

$5M

I was talking to my insurance agent. The health insurance plan she quoted me some time ago has been replaced by a new, reportedly better plan.

The old plan had a $2M lifetime limit. This new plan has a $5M lifetime limit.

So, of course, I told her, “Gee, if it reaches $5M I’m dead [so that must be enough].”

She replied that her son-in-law (or nephew) just had a heart-lung transplant and he is most definitely not dead, so, “No, at $5M you are definitely not dead yet.”

Oops.