In two notably unexpected moves, I installed Opera on my laptop (as I needed a secondary browser and didn't want to use IE) and got falling-down drunk Monday night at
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Opera (so far) appears to be playing well. Its quick, and has some nifty features, but it displays just like IE, so other than being more secure, I really don't see the point.
Slapped some third-party SIIG USB card into my Sun Ultra10 in hopes of setting up Amarok to rip CDs and manipulate the iPod and boy was I surprised when...it worked! dmesg reveals:
[ 32.612916] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 32.613177] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 32.613492] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 40.922987] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 40.923050] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 41.112284] usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
[ 41.278291] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 41.844276] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 41.844299] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[ 42.168157] usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
[ 42.344409] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:02:03.0-1
The boy woke me up at 0515 because of lighting. I couldn't go back to sleep, so I went to work.
I had a gorgeous breakfast of eggs, hash browns, biscuit & gravy - all topped generously with Tabasco's chiptole sauce. Fantastic! For giggles, I washed it all down with my first Monster in over a week. Oh yeah, I'll be unstoppable today. Un-fscking-stoppable!
Last night, serving penance for missing my boy's Cub Scout meeting (and, subsequently
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Halloween 2001:
I wore my kufi, keffiyeh, agal and thawb
to show that all middle-easterners were not terrorists.
That turned out to be not well-reasoned in Texas.
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