My New Toy Originally uploaded by omaciel. After breaking (I’m still clueless as for what really happened… Maybe I zapped it by wearing my fleece sweater) my SanDisk 1GB jump drive within 20 minutes of use last Wednesday, I finally drove back to CompUSA and picked up this little fella. It aboslutely rocks! I’ve now installed Portable Firefox 1.0.1 and really like it. Today I want to take the time to sort most of my MP3s and load them in for a fun, music-filled day at work.

My daughter is very ill. Actually, she’s been ill for a few days now with very high fever and coughing coupled with a persistent runny nose. I had to take Wednesday off from work so I could bring her to her doctor but it turned out to be a complete waste of time. He even performed an on-site strep throat test to see if that was the problem but the results were inconclusive.

Just added a few more links to some of my favorite sites, visited every single day, religiously! Where are Slashdot or OSNews you may ask? I have become extremelly disappointed with the quality and (lack of) variety of their articles. If you don’t feel like looking through the old list of links and try to figure out which ones are the new ones, here they are: Planet Debian Planet Security Planet Ubuntu Some bloggers subscribe to multiple aggregators but you should have a lot of good material to read during your morning hours.

It has been a long time since I last blogged on my other web site Linux Gnubbie. It was my first real “taste” of a real blown web site and up to the day I bought the domain I had relied on public (e.g. chock-full of banners and adds), free web site providers. Those really sucked specially because you were pretty much at the mercy of their regulations and forget about getting some type of remote access to work on your files.

On a previous post I had promised to comment on the movie Sideways. I finally managed to see it while visiting my sister in North Carolina and was very pleased with the movie as a whole. The cast, the plot, the cinematography, the dialogues, everything contributed to a pleasant comedy-drama. Paul Giamatti (Miles) and Thomas Haden Church (Jack) take you on a roller coaster of emotions, making you ponder about your own choices in life as well as make you piss in your pants with their outrageous adventures.

It has been officially determined now and it is only fair I let people into my little secret:

Jakub Steiner from Planet Gnome mentioned an old article written by Joel Spolsky on the importance of writing software specifications before actually coding. It is a very light and interesting read and I strongly urge people to take the time to absorb his “pearls of wisdom.” It doesn’t matter if you’re a programmer or just a couch potato. You may learn how to knock a lot of possible headaches out of the way, either by avoiding dealing with an angry user who wants a certain button shapped as a heart or making sure all your snacks are within reach so you don’t have to miss your favorite soap.