Noontime update at the end of the day…
- In its latest move to alienate everyone everyone in the world and try to collect money for products it didn’t create, SCO targets federal supercomputer users, trying to collect license fees for Linux, especially when it’s running on Beowulf clusters.
- Trademark owners are telling people to Get Out of My Namespace. The intersection of trademarks and domain names is a real mess, and it’s unlikely to get better any time sooner. And it’s really an awfully good headline for geeks like me. [nyt]
- Speaking of good headlines, McPaper McFires McPlagiarist covers the case of the USA Today writer who did fiction, and then sold it as journalism.
- Here’s a site that features some fairly intricate Pencil Carving. Apparently there are at least a few Japanese folk who make pretty shapes out of common #2 pencils. [boing boing]
- Workday Minnesota has an archive of their coverage of the Twin Cities transit strike.
- As the transit strike politics play out, it’s looking more and more like the union is going to have to cave. There just isn’t any political pressure on the Governor to get the strike settled. Most of the pro-union folks would never vote for Pawlenty anyhow, and few of the people who did vote for him care about transit. [press-patch]
- And the strikers, stranded riders trying to cope with new sets of problems, but from the sound of it, it’s mostly the strikers who are having problems. People are finding ways to get around without the buses, but the folks who are out on strike are starting to feel the loss of their paychecks. I think the effects of the strike would have been a lot worse if we’d had a good transit system before. [press-patch]
- There are bus strike talks set for Monday, but I haven’t gotten the feeling that either side is ready to make any concessions yet, and this morning’s news seems to confirm that. [strib]
Update: noon
It’s been a busy morning for me. I’ve needed to get a number of little things done around the house for quite a while, and I attacked them with a vengeance this morning. The initial plan had been to go up to my mom’s house for lunch today, but after heading up there both Monday and Friday of last week, we decided I should stay home and catch up around here. Anyway, here’s the list. It’s only noon, but I feel like I’ve already gotten a full day’s worth of work done around here.
- Reorganize office, including rotating desk by 90°
- Rewire outlet in office area so it’s grounded, only to discover I don’t need it after all
- Clean floor in office area
- Set up shelf in space freed up by rotating desk
- Set up networked laser printer on shelf
- Set up fax machine on shelf
- Set up color printer on shelf
- Set up Ethernet, FireWire and USB hubs on desk so I can get to my peripherals.
- Move computer under desk so the fan-noise won’t bother me so much.
- Set up server I bought on Friday (on shelf)
- Collect debugging information from the Cisco VPN box so I can email it to Tech Support on Monday morning
- Do laundry
- Haul out the rest of the carpet from the bedroom upstairs
- Fill bird feeder
- Sweep and mop floor in bedroom that no longer has carpet
- Haul out recycling that’s been building up
- Water plants
- Set up X-10 on a few lights around the house
- Pay bills
It looks like I’m about half finished with the list, which is a pretty good feeling as I take a break for lunch.