Not long back, a dear friend of mine sent me an email petition concerning the funding of public television. It had the smell of a hoax about it, so I did a search on snopes.com and confirmed that it was (warning: popups). But the lie become truth: A house subcommittee (with a GOP majority) has [...]

Virtual desktops are one of the coolest things about Linux. And most efforts to impliment the idea on Windows are terrible failures. Virtual Dimension is the exception to that rule. It rocks. And, of course, it’s open source. Enjoy.

Shepcat and Tim both tagged me with this book meme, and since I’ve had books on the brain a lot lately, I’ll play: 1. Total Number of Books Ive Owned I’d like to know, but I have no way of knowing. At certain points in my life, owning a lot of books was very important [...]