My beloved girlfriend had a birthday this weekend. Because she is a wonderful person, she made the long drive down to see me and went on to go to the trivia playoffs with me, as they were, tragically scheduled for her birthday. (Second place, by the way, so we move on to the semifinals). So I had a wonderful weekend with a beautiful woman doing things way more enjoyable than writing in my blog (We watched Love Actually and Pirates of the Carribean). I'll try to update the regular features this week.

The other -- and far less interesting -- thing that is consuming my time this week is Christmas shopping, after a fashion. For the sake of security, I can't say much right now, but I will say this: The world is full of obsolete PCs. It really bugs me that there aren't more sites where you can find interesting things to do with them. I am working to turn a 133ish Mhz Pentium class machine -- this was the machine I used as my primary box not 8 months ago -- into a computer that does exactly one thing, exactly the same thing as a $30 MP3 player.

As it turns out, this is very hard. Ridiculously hard. Comically hard.

As I will outline shortly.

In the mean time, I've added del.icio.us to the badges down the side. You can find out what I've found noteworthy on the internet by clicking it.