Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to johno!!! Have a great one!!

Warm fuzzies

Last week Colleen gave me a cotton flannel shirt, which I wore for the first time this morning taking the Y.D. to school. It's light, soft, warm, fuzzy, and petable; the collar caressed my cheek the entire time.

Thank you, Love.

The perils of DRM, part N

Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection -- only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans - Boing Boing

Hey suckers! Did you buy DRM music from Wal*Mart instead of downloading MP3s for free from the P2P networks? Well, they're repaying your honesty by taking away your music. Unless you go through a bunch of hoops (that you may never find out about, if you've changed email addresses or if you're not a very technical person), your music will no longer be playable after October 9th.

State of the Bear

I've been very congested lately; have gone back to a daily Claritin. OTOH the cutting back the Flonase by 50% seems to have helped with phlegm in the throat, so that's good.

My mysterious hardware failure at work turns out to have been due to a loose (or possibly even mis-installed) RAM stick. Grump. It's also been plagued by a loose PCI card, but that's unlikely to manifest again until I drag it into the conference room and give a demo. Spent the afternoon on window manager configuration. So I am now back to approximately where I expected to be this time Friday.

I have not been getting nearly as much writing done as I would like. I have been getting more sleep than I would like, but less than I apparently need.

A shorter-than-usual walk, squeezed out between a longer-than-usual (but good) morning meeting, online bill-paying that should have been done last week, and an earlier-than-usual afternoon talk.