In the interests of being fair to both desktop environments, I have decided to switch to KDE 3.3 on my home desktop. Still using Gnome 2.8 on my laptop though.

Well, KDE 3.3 is more of the same - very customizable, but somehow not as clean looking as Gnome. It may just take some time to get it looking and working the way I like. Also, though KDE/Qt applications were far ahead of Gnome/GTK, that is no longer true. Firefox, Thunderbird and Gaim are killer apps for Gnome. Yes, I know that you can run apps based on any toolkit in both environments, but I like seeing all my apps look and feel alike.

Well, that last message actually showed up. I am amazed when things work as they should.

Yes I can!

Just watched Hitch and In Good Company. Hitch was funnier, but somewhat predictable. In Good Company was better, but somewhat depressing. Will Smith, Kevin James (Hitch), Topher Grace, and Dennis Quaid (In Good Company) all did great jobs. Bottom line: watch In Good Company to procrastinate on a weekday night, and top off your weekend with Hitch.

Have been checking out other blogs on Blogger and it's not looking good. I am using the most popular theme out there. Aw heck, maybe someday I will change it to something else. At least I removed the Blogger button and replaced it with a Firefox button.

The Altix machines are very nice. We have an Altix 1350 at work and it rocks to see the 320MB of memory I need for my program translate to about 0.1% of the total memory in the machine (64GB). It makes using large in-memory data structures a viable option, rather than having to store the data in a database or a file. Oh, and it runs Linux. Put that on my Christmas wishlist!

Have been trying to get gnome-blog working and it does nothing when I try to get it to find my blog. Might be proxy issues at work, so I will try from home later.

Wanted to clear up a few things before I forgot.

• deathdruid is a nickname I often use online, not an indication of how I have morbid tendencies. Not that I don't.
• There will be no emotional outpourings or soulsearching here. Just some stuff about science, technology, and possibly even the real world.
• I will strive to sound like someone who actually went to college, rather than those teen blogs that sound like they were published by SMS.

That's all for now. Off to dinner.

Well, decided to create a weblog of my own, so I can rave and rant about technology and maybe help some people along the way. Maybe no one will read it, apart from potential employers who Google my name. Still, it's always a good idea to go back and read something you wrote a while ago, so you see just how wrong you were and (you hope) how far you have come since.