Rambling, digressive thoughts.

I’ve not been able to write a lot recently. Time to just blabber away:

Advertising just plain sucks. Dear Lazyweb, please make it obsolete.
Go visit Ftrain.com is you haven’t done so yet. Great writing.
Speaking of writing, or rather, reading, here’s a sparkline that shows my monthly reading activity: Notice the recent upwards trend? That’s when I started working. If you’re looking for exact figures, peek thro’ this page’s source code and look at the image URL for the sparkline. The nifty script courtesy BitWorking.
As long as we’re talking about reading, let me tell you that A Feast For Crows is much better on the second read. I was somewhat disappointed with Martin when I first read it, which I now attribute to my extremely high hopes after finishing A Storm of Swords. Can’t wait for A Dance With Dragons, hope it’s out soon.
I’ve been spending a lot of time in eshell lately. It’s amazingly useful, especially when I have set-language-environment to utf-8, and set DARCS_DONT_ESCAPE_8BIT to 1. I hope someone understands what I just wrote here.
One thing I have decided: as soon as I get some new hardware, I’m gonna run my home machine using some nice virtualization product. Will wait till Intel’s Core 2 processors become affordable.

That’s enough for today. Come back for more later.

simulacra