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In the past week or so, it has been independantly noted that I am very bitter and I am cynical beyond repair. Sorry if you were on the receiving end of that. Also, sorry if you encountered Cranky Waider this week, as he was in pretty full effect due to some technical stuff that was going the wrong way down a one-way street, and doing so while honking its horn at people coming the other way trying to point out the error.

Having gotten that out of the way, I will note the following (we'll call it "residual crankiness")

• My Amazon Wishlist is now titled "Yes, it's up-to-date". Even though there is stuff on it from 2004 that's no longer available from Amazon themselves, and there's other stuff there that Amazon UK simply won't ship to me due to an ongoing issue with recycling laws in Ireland.
• Twitter comes with a feed. So does your blog. If I'm interested in the latter, you really shouldn't need to tell me about it on the former. Announce your blog, sure. Tell me every time you post? Not so much.
• Daylight savings time can bite me. Twice. And the alleged US energy-saving legislation from 2005 that made things even more screwy can seriously bite me.
• Livejournal posts of your twitter posts: same deal as going the other way. If I'm interested, I'll have subscribed to both. If I'm not interested, I'm not frickin' interested, ok?
• This weather has got to stop. I got snowed on last weekend. I came home yesterday with hands so cold I could barely type. And now it's blazing sunshine, after blowing a storm this morning. Maybe humans were meant to sleep through this.
• Dear local bar, please clean the taps or something. Three beers giving me a headache? That's not right.

In the immortal words of the TBSC:

Whew, that was fun. Actually, it has nothing to do with any of that. I'm just killing time until this Pat tape runs out.

I bought a japanese DVD from Amazon ages ago, and since then I've been getting the Japanese newsletter which I've never bothered unsubbing from because it lets me pretend that some day I'll actually get back to learning japanese. Anyway. Today's missive included this classic:

[-2-]【10％OFF】『ALL　TIME　SUPER　BEST(DELAX　EDITION)』

I can only assume it's got a bowel-shaking beat or some such.

Driving cross-country to get to an interview with five minutes to spare was not exactly how I'd intended approaching this, but hey. I should know by the weekend if I'm hired or not.

I really need to learn more about the Linux kernel before mentioning that I've done kernel-level debugging (I have, but.) Sigh. Not really expecting much more than a PFO from that.

Cute: Free music downloads from Amazon. Now, if they'd put it out as an enclosure-containing RSS-feed with, say, links to the artists or something...

There's a lot to be said for a global network that allows me to read about the Japanese version of Johnny Mnemonic, and then buy it.