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If you google for "hply sjot" right now, it suggests "holy shot" as the phrase you meant to search for. Aside from that, there are seven hits (again, as of right now), not all of which are mine or aggregation copies.

In the previous job, I had limited space on my laptop for music to listen to and streaming the collection from home wasn't really an option, so I had a bunch of rips (not all purchased, either; some were "loaned" by a friend) on the laptop drive for the better part of two years which I listened to constantly in the office and occasionally on cross-country drives. These days I listen to my entire music collection (about ten days of music in total) off one of my office desktops, except for the periods when I'm on-call and need to be able to hear my pager going off. Which is a roundabout way of explaining why t.A.T.u. are still at number three on my most-listened to list, even though I wiped those MP3s more than a year ago.

(as an aside: hply sjot, Frantic Dogpaddle have a page on last.fm, and the picture is indeed the correct one? WTF?)

I'm not sure why I'm even continuing to watch Ireland v. France. Our alleged team are handing them the ball more often than not, getting in each others' way, committing basic errors (forward passes, poor passes, and knock-ons) and at this point we're trailing by 40 points and there's still a half-hour left in the game.

update: just after I posted that, we scored three tries in a row, and converted them. We're still most likely going to lose, but at least we'll cut down the points difference.

I hope.

update: 4 tries. hply sjot.

update: well, if only we'd played the entire game like we played the last half hour. Final score: 43-31. So many missed chances, alas.

We won a match! hurrah! of course, as my brother put it, beating the Faeroe Islands isn't exactly going to punch us up to the top of the League of Soccer-Playing Nations, but it's nice that we didn't, you know, throw away valuable points for a change. For irony points, the Islanders were all over us for the first half simply through the simple expedient of playing the sort of kick-and-run game that Jack Charlton championed when he was the manager of the Irish squad, and Our Lads™ didn't know what to do with it.

The story of Audion (a Mac MP3 player) is very well written. Specifically, the bit where they get an email from Steve Jobs. Also some nice phrasings like "On the other hand, there would be giant money hats."

Irish Times Breaking News
09:43:00: Peace process may require IRA disbandment - Adams
Republicans must be ready to accept the disbandment of the IRA to make progress in the peace process, Mr Gerry Adams said last night. "I personally feel that while there are justifiable fears within unionism about the IRA and while people have concerns about the IRA, I think political unionism uses the IRA and the issue of IRA arms as an excuse," Mr Adams told the BBC in Belfast yesterday. "I think republicans need to be prepared to remove that as an excuse".

None of the other newsfeeds I read are carrying this at the moment. Wow.

hply sjot! Jenson Button beats Barrichello's qualifying time, and Michael Schumacher overcooks the Variente Alta(sp?) chicane thus losing his 0.25s advantage at that point leaving the grid for tomorrow's race starting Button, Schumacher (M), Montoya, Schumacher (R), Barrichello Barrichello, Schumacher (R).

1. Software release. Yay me!
2. Brother visited. Bob visited. Talk about forecasting a hangover...
3. Mom's birthday party (actual day was a few weeks back). Happy Birthday, Mom!
4. Fixing computers; I still hate Windows.
5. Linux IrDA to Windows IrDA transfer with no actual problems, hply sjot
6. DSL on Wednesday morning, allegedly

That is all.

WE WON! We beat the Best Team In The World™ on their HOME GROUND! GO US!

So I'm not a comic book fan nor have I ever seen any episodes of The Green Hornet, but what really blows me away about the fact that the project's just been given to Kevin Smith is his telling of the story, in which he tries to turn it down and Harvey Weinsten refuses him that luxury. I've heard similar about Harvey W. telling Peter Jackson that he couldn't not do a trilogy when Jackson was trying to pitch a two-movie version of LotR. Sounds like a cool guy to work for, at least from the perspective of those two stories...