Done yesterday (20100409 Fr)

[mdlbear]

0409 Fr
  * up 6:30; W=197.6; drugs, nose, teeth.  BPH?
  * some work on Norwescon concert.  All labeled, exported.
  * moved bookmarks.html to Private/Config
  * 9:30 bring Honda in for service
  @ Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an 
    "Intellectual Property address" -- you can't make this stuff up!
  @ Digital Economy Bill: Proposed By The Unelected, Debated By The Ignorant, 
    Voted On By The Absent
  @ Apple to developers: don't even think in Flash, bucko
  @ The Ethicist - E-Book Dodge - Question - NYTimes.com
  @ Are There More Copyright 'Pre-Settlement' Groups Setting Up Shop In The US?
  @ If 'Piracy' Is Killing Filmmaking, Why Do Nigeria, China And India 
    Have Thriving Movie Businesses?
  @ Newspapers Pushing For Hot News Doctrine May Find It Comes Back To Bite Them
  * pick up citalopram at Campbell main pharm.
  * 2:35 Honda needs thermostat, hoses, front brakes.  now over $2500
  * raise 401K contrib (regular 9%->11%; catchup 148->240)
    ! relieved, pleased with myself.  A major to.do item for over a year.
  @ Jane Yolen — Random thoughts on writing and on children’s books
    (from ysabetwordsmith - Jane Yolen on Writing
  * walk: once around pond, before going home
  : argo completely unusable after Karmic upgrade.
    out of memory; thrashing.  Not even enough to run a browser over ssh!
  % 8:45 sleepy - not even 9 yet!
  * started tax data entry.  Thanks to e-pay, all of 2009 is in one
    check register, with parts of 2008 and all, so far, of 2010.
  * sent free virtual puppy to chaoswolf.  4 left.
  * 10:00 tried a bath - water too cold.  snuggle.
  * 11:30ish bed.  snuggle.

A pretty good day, though an expensive one. Still, I got to tick a couple of biggies off my to.do list, and took a nice (if short) walk before going home. (Lunchtime, my usual walk time, was taken up by a trip to Kaiser to pick up a prescription. It could have waited until Monday, but...)

Data entry for the check register has been done; I still have to do the credit-card receipts.

My old Thinkpad A30, Argo, is completely unusable after upgrading to Karmic; it needs either a memory upgrade (it's currently something like 128M) or a much lighter-weight OS. Probably both, although simply dropping Gnome in favor of ctwm would probably help a lot.

Lots of links under the cut, as usual. More on the UK's draconian IP law (Minister for Digital Britain thinks an IP address is an "Intellectual Property address" -- you can't make this stuff up!), and Jane Yolen's random thoughts on writing and on children’s books.