Merry belated Christmas and a happy New Year!

So Christmas happened 'n stuff.  It was a good time, and I got my yearly supply of tea and slippers.  I hope your Christmas was fantastic too.
I saw the Golden Compass t'other day, and I have to say they did not do justice to the books.  I haven't read any of them and still I feel I can say this.  I'm exited for Sweeny Todd tomorrow night with Matt, though.  Speaking of books for which no justice is done by movies, Stephen R. Donaldson has released book one of The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, which may mean some hope for me picking up the habit of reading again.  the last 6 books of the series was the last lengthy thing I actually read from start to finish in a remotely timely fashion.

Good luck with your New Year's resolutions!

Ubuntu: Take Two

Okay, I've migrated over to Ubuntu (again), but I have a feeling it's gonna stick this time (the WinXP partitions are more corrupt than the Chinese government).  My music is the only stuff I care about that's been corrupted, and it's not too bad, just one song here and there.  Anyways, Ubuntu is frustrating me a bit, crashing and lagging, etc., but nothing's perfect; the real test is whether or not I can put up with it through the school year without reverting.
Back to school in a couple weeks!

DIGG - Anti-DRM T-Shirt Designs: Vote Now

We don’t like DRM, and we’re not the only one. Unfortunately, the majority of the movie companies and record labels still think it’s the best way to “protect” their music. Let us show them it’s not, it only hinders honest customers.



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Ext2fsd is my buddy

So, I have all my movies, TV shows, audiobooks, software, etc. on this Ext3 partition, right?  I've been using Ext2IFS to mount this on Windoze, but after some repartitioning/resizing complications, I found myself with like 3 drive letters for the thing, the original one being dead. This means I could still access my goodies, but as far as filesharing programs are concerned, the paths were invalid.
Today, I installed Ext2fsd, and it is lovely; no crap, and it let me reclaim R:  Long story short - y'all can start leeching my stuff again.

In other news:  yes, it's that time of year again - Nethack tourney season!
Test your skillz against returning champion, me, and expect lots of sweet, hot new features!
Full deets on the RC blog, when I get to it.