First Ciccada for 2002 this morning. Beautiful day.

Loads-a-music.
Brought my linux router into work today, in a
silver case that looks like it should have a sniper rifle in it.
Copied 34Gb of music onto it. (Thats about 8500 Songs, or
507 Hours Music, or 21 Days!)
And thats only half of it.
My ADSLs working again. Having a linux box connected to the network and reconnecting every 2 seconds pretty much fixes the problem.
Going to move this little weblog onto my linux box soon, when i get time to play with it.

YES!!!

Im posting this from my XP box which as of right now is connected by a cross over cable to my small form factor duron 1.2ghz linux router which is connected to my working (Working!!!) adsl link.My linux box doesnt seem to add more than about 2ms to my latency and means ive got all the power and convience of a permantly connected linux box.
I call it wideeye.dyndns.org.

Back at work, my adsl now hasnt worked since the first of september which is really getting on my nerves.
I finally got round to buying the bits for a linux box (amd 1200 duron, 128mb ram, 40gb hdd, 2 NICS) which i built and configed on saturday despite being really tired and hung over courtsey of drinking with Richies friend Amber on friday night.
Anyway it all worked and ive got this small fast headless linux box under my desk, so when the ADSL starts working again ill finally have my own permenant linux box online.
Rented a tarago yesterday and took flo, kendall, zoie an a mystery guest (merlina) up to katoomba for the day.
Much fun. Ally and Zoe (the flatmate zoe [thank god their names are spelt different..]) didnt come cause they where hung over.

Conspiracy Theorys
The recording industry is in trouble... Its not the first time, its not even the second time, but this time its different.
Back in the early days of radio, the recording industry was afraid that people would stop buying grammafone reccords because they could just hear the music for free.
They pressed for and got legislation (in the UK atleast) limiting the ammount of 'needle time' each station could broadcast in a day. Can you imagine todays music industry trying to *prevent* their music from getting airlplay?
About 20 (25?) years ago sony invented the vcr, the movie industry tried to get the device banned, fearing that if people could watch movies at home, why would they go to the cinema. They almost succeeded. Ironic considering that video rentals now account for half of the revenue a movie eventually makes..
Flash forward to now, people download music, and movies, and whats the recording and movie industries trying to do? introduce legislation to get the practice stopped.

Anyway, in steps Microsoft and announces a new part of windows called Palladium which is supposed to save the music and movie industry by limiting what media (movies and audio) you can view on your computer.

Palladium was the sacred image, supposed to protect troy from the greeks.

Microsoft Palladium is supposed to protect the recording
industry from the geeks.

The funny thing is... the greeks won.

ARACHNOPHOBIA
Do you know the best way to cure someone of arachnophobia?
Nope, but throwing spiders at them's fun...