I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

Happy birthday Carl. The world could really use a billion or so more yous right about now.

Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?

While I'm on the subject of annoying fish-people with voices like nails on a chalkboard: how about that Bill Gates?

Windows Vista might the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for this longtime Windows/ PC owner. It appears Microsoft basically caved to everything the MPAA and recording industry wanted. So now I get to pay for the privilege of not being able to use all the media files I might have stored on my hard drive. And this is a huge step forward how exactly?

As I can't see switching to Mac I might have to bite the bullet and go Linux. I seem to know a few people who've been singing it's praises for some time now...