One of These Days. . .

"This raises the question whether it is better to be loved or feared, or the reverse. The answer is, that one would like to be both; but since it is difficult to combine the two, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if you have to choose. For it can be said of mankind generally, that they are ungrateful, inconstant, pretenderes to virtue and concealers of vice, avoiders of danger and lovers of gain; as long as you help them they are all yours, and will offer you their blood, their property, their lives, and their children. . . provided that the crisis is a long way off; when it comes closer, they soon turn their backs on you. "
- Machiavelli

My new Deep Thought

I finally finished my new machine - one that brings me into the current generation of technology.

Directron Hydraulic case -Intel Motherboard/ DDR 667 MHZ RAM - Pentium D 3.40 GHZ Dual Processor - Geforce 6800GS 512 MB PCI-E Video Card - Soundblaster Audigy 2 Sound Card
Hitachi SATA 3.0 Hard Disk
Lite-On DVD-R
Sunbeam 20-in-1 Card Reader and Fan Control


Now its time to install Vista Rc1 for evaluation as well as Linux - probably Ubuntu.

The point of the journey is not to arrive

Here is a quote I found while reading a review of Marillion's Radiation:

The oblique "Cathedral Wall" visits one of the great romantic dilemmas, that unattainability is essential to sustaining a quest, and yet also the reason the quest can never end successfully (a Grail in hand is not the embodiment of triumph, it's an insurance headache waiting to happen)

I think it nicely sums up life, art, and the continuing epic that is Marillion's music.

Last CD purchase: Marillion - Smoke & Mirrors

Immortal Bunnies

Here's an abridged version of Highlander (30 seconds, and its acted by bunnies). Almost as good as the Fifteen Minute Hamlet.