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NuonSoft's ShellEnhancer is pretty handy, but the last time I tried it, it had "issues." It's now in 2.0b stage, so I'll have to check it out again.

The gratuitous use of clip art just pisses me off.

It doesn't add value, dilutes the message you're attempting deliver, and it's (quite frankly) inane.

There's a time and a place for a clip-art bunny. Say, orientation for your pre-school program.

I'm sure there's a 12-step program if you have a problem -- think of this as an anonymous intervention.

I've had one cigarette in 57.3 hours. Yay, me.

Chav: the Brit's answer to "trailer trash."

I've been lurking over at b3ta for some time now.

...and, for the last five minutes I've been attempting to describe it. Wikipedia, as always, does an excellent job.

Anywho, David Sullivan is a rather unsavory chap (think Larry Flynt without scruples) who reprinted a number of b3tan's pics without permission or credit. That just pissed me off.

So, in hopefully true b3ta form, I present my crap attempts to show how trully reprehensible Sullivan is.

I'll be able to post them to b3ta on Tuesday. Woo, yay!

I've been out of the service for nearly 15 years, and I often think back to my time with the 583d Ordnance Company in Handorf, Germany.

There's a guy who runs a site for the 27th Ordnance Company at http://www.geocities.com/mmitsuda/, and I was thinking of setting up something similar for the folks who served at "Happy Handorf."

I sent an email to a couple of the guys I served with, and I'm waiting for a response back.

Huh. A couple of Canadians patented the incandescent light bulb and Edison bought them out to further his research, but a German watchmaker named Henricg Globel (passing strange irony there) invented the first one.

Mysteries of Canada's page describes some of it.

I googled Globel, and didn't really find much. I'll have to dig into it later.

The Sclafani~FamilyConnection is a Yahoo! group that deals with the "lineages and surnames" of folks with an even vowel to consonant ratio. Heh.

This is another decent VIM quick reference cheat-sheet.

My keyboard tray died last night. It was one of those underdesk sliding, articulating thingies that was built entirely out of steel.

Entirely out of steel, excepting, of course, where the tray mechanism attaches to the rail mechanism. This was made out of fine, Corinthian plastic. One would think that this would be an ideal failure point and reinforce it accordingly, but one would be wrong. I think the term is "planned obsolence". Bastards.

Kensington has one that looks pretty sweet: Underdesk Adjustable Keyboard Platform