it's sad news, but a great delivery

It's been widely reported at this point, but Terry Pratchett has announced that he's been diagnosed with "early-onset Alzheimers" (this page will no doubt move, so try the December 2007 archive link, if it exists)

metaphoria

Cake: Outlook 2007 performs worse on this laptop than Evolution 1.4.5.
Icing: Outlook 2007 (possibly in concert with the GPG plugin I use) renders signed messages unreadable, apparently in such a way that the original message is trashed.
Sprinkles: Evolution 1.4.5 works with the server which Evolution 2.anything refuses to talk to.

I love it when technology makes my life difficult.

man attacks cars, firefighters

All I can say is wtf?