Considering how excellent I find the song "Lullaby" by The Cure, I think it's quite amazing how boring I find the rest of their music.

I have always known this day would come. Seriously, I have. I just wasn't sure who would buy who, though I found adobe buying macromedia more likely.

Check out the news.

Personally, I have always hoped that the competition between macromedia and adobe on the web front would eventually spur a territory race for linux. I guess [...]

It has really happened. I have become a vim user.

For those of you who don't know vim, it's a powerful text editor which has a learning curve like the north face of Mount Everest.

I have been using vim for a while, because I wanted to learn it. I am stubborn that way – I [...]

I changed back to KDE a couple of weeks ago, and these are the reasons:

Klipper
The KDE clipboard manager that can recall the last many images and text clippings in your clipboard.
KHotkeys
Nice, integrated hotkey manager that works very well, unlike xhkeys.
KDevelop
A reasonably full featured IDE. I can't find anything as mature as this in Gnome.
QT-GTK theme [...]

One of my google news alerts is "holographic storage", which is something I have been tracking the development of for about 7 years now.

Holographic storage promises to be the next generation storage solutions. It has for a long time.
It uses 3 dimensional patters in a substrate to store enormous quantities of data. The idea is [...]