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Friday, January 8th, 2010

Desk

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Asides

If you running *nix in a VM inside *nix, pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1/F2/etc will take you to the host’s console instead of the guest’s consoles. Press Host-F1/F2 to go to the guest’s console instead. [#, 0]

Do read China Meiville’s Five Reasons Tolkien Rocks—very interesting. [#, 0]

Along with my monthly stock of new books, I ordered two copies of Heroes Die today. I already have a copy, but I figure I’ll keep one as a spare, and one to maybe gift to some nascent bibliophile. Blade of Tyshalle is already sold out (and secondhand copies are selling for upwards of 40US$), so I want to grab me some as many copies of the Caine books that I can. [#, 0]

My Sennheiser 201 ’phones broke within a year of buying them—I was too rough on the poor things. I got myself a Sennheiser HD 202 instead yesterday—it seems to sound even better and looks a lot more durable. [#, 2]