Quick reaction to a bunch of stuff I’ve recently encountered, in one way or another. Very random; meaning…whatever you want.

Good:

• Blogger revamp (yep, feeding the hand that…uh, feeds me for free…)
• vi
• Unices in any flavor. Windows makes the hard pretty but not easy (often, virtually impossible). UNIX is ugly but unbelievably useful (if you know the secret handshake).

Bad:

• Flooding (Chicago area; from drought to…uh, non-drought
• The War on Terror (© ?? The TumbleWeeds), and all that that has inflicted on everyone
• Dinging Moveable Type for (GASP!) charging for a brilliant piece of software (not necesarily the code, but the concept…)
  

Unclear:

• There is a lot of action in the Telcom/Internet area. Understandable and not new, but heating up. Hmm.
• Microsoft’s Longhorn seems more distant every day (caveat: I’m more into Unices now). What does this mean? Is there a disturbance in the force?