Here is what’s kept me up late these last 3 nights: Installing Gentoo Linux onto Houdini (AMD 64 3400+ 1GB RAM) and getting Windows XP to run under VMWare. This may be a bit unorthodox but I wanted to have access to some Windows-only applications (such as Visual Studio 2003) without having to keep an extra computer at home with the sole purpose of running Windows. I wonder if I can install and play WoW under this scenario without much of a performance loss?

When you spend most of your time “locked up” in a cubicle maze (as I do) day in, day out, this may not be too funny! ;) Link

Some more coding today gave me this:

Been spending some quality hacking time these last few days, basically re-writting my tentative Rss reader application. The first 2 iterations relied on the Rss.NET code library but after hitting some major obstacles I sort of “left it by the side of the road” while I re-grouped my ideas. Last week I finally gathered enough ideas to go back to “production.” I decided to hack away at the Rss.NET library and turn it into a smaller, lean, and meaner piece of code.

After “Generation X” and the one after that, I present you “Generation Linux”!!!

My most sincerey wishes of a Happy Birthday to my great friend SuperToadman! May your balls never shrink and your limbs never go limp! ;)

More interesting comments on the London bombing and how politicians are seizing the moment to run their personal agendas… Do people really believe that the goal of the terrorists is to destroy our freedom? Or that they hate our way of life? (E.g, Tony Blair’s remarks). I’d be interested to know the origin of this themeâ€â€?at some point, the cold war anti-Soviet rhetoric was somehow adapted to the war on terror.

Read some nostalgic posts about the now defunt tv show The Screen Savers. It made it sound like it was a great show! PUAH! TSS was an interesting show back in the pre-Sarah-and-Kevin-and-hottie-girls-wearing-mini-skirts era! During the last 2-3 seasons of its existence they completely lost its charm, switching from a simple show that was actually helpfull to the computer illiterate or novice, to a super commercialized show. Almost all of their reviews and segments involved some type of commercial application and some of the new members showed complete ignorance of the material they were supposedly covering.

Dom Lachowicz's post about this morning's London terrorism acts touched upon a very delicate subject: how other countries perceive the United States. I agree with almost every one of his sacarsm-filled bulletted reasons why “they” hate “us” but in the end I think his emotions got the best of him: "Try walking a mile in their shoes. If I were in a Saudi’s shoes, I might want to blow shit up.

Another gem from Piled Higher and Deeper comic! It reminded me of my last job interview… Right before I was interviewed by “the boss” I asked to use the restroom. “Sure,” he said. “I also need to go.” So there we were standing side by side making small talk… Now THAT was awkward!