The Proper Way to Upgrade
University of Manitoba gives its 47-year-old mainframe a New Orleans-style sendoff, complete with rhyming eulogy 
Things on my mind
Swapping CapsLock with Escape, at least in Linux, is a requirement for me, starting today. This guy shows you how. No more moving away from home row in VIm.
Compiz Fusion is a great improvement over Beryl, largely because C-F doesn’t crash my Xserver twice a day the way Beryl did. I’ve had maybe 2 X crashes total since my upgrade 1-2 months ago.
At what point did we (the USA) move from the way the Constitution says President and Vice President should be selected (Guy with the most votes is President, guy with the second most votes is Vice President) to having running mates, so you vote for a pair of candidates, instead of individuals?
I’ve been reading through Head First Design Patterns. Very interesting stuff - finding out how much I don’t know about programming. At least that’ll change from the reading. 
Abandoned open-source projects - especially those sponsored by a commercial company (such as XIFF, sponsored by Jive Software) greatly irk me.