I haven’t done anything overly interesting lately. In fact, my days have been, on the whole, rather dull. But I /have/ been reading - several books in the last week or so, in fact, a couple on my 100 Top Books to Read list for the 101 Things project, and several others that were /not/ on the list. I confess - the ones /not/ on the list were better, mostly. I’m currently in the midst of War and Peace - which is bloody boring, to say the least, and The Wind in the Willows, which, despite being an illustrated kids book, is incredibly long and also quite dull. Just finished Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett, which was better than I expected. It also wasn’t on the list. There /are/ five books by Pratchett on the list, but naturally, this podunk library in town doesn’t have a single one of them. Hah.

I’ve also been doing a lot of work on my linux box lately. In plain english, that means: “I’ve royally f*cked up my computer, and have been working my ass off to make it right again.” The good news? It paid off. I’ve now upgraded to Ubuntu 6.06 (aka Dapper) and I’m /very/ happy with the results, except for small… er… large… bug involving /etc/fstab and samba shares. But really, it’s working good now. All that’s left is to attempt swapping out my RAM to see if that will solve my freezing problem…

Now, I’m off to mess around some more, and will soon be reading Pillars of the Earth, and Artemis Fowl.

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