Random thoughts

Random thoughts...

I think now that the media has had its fun with the VTU shooting, all bloggers should stop writing full fledged posts about it except where it is genuinely relevent. In the scheme of things, it's really no different than other shootings at high schools and colleges, so it shouldn't receive that much attention except as a footnote in future conversations.

I bought an upgrade for my laptop the other day. A 2GB RAM kit from Crucial.com, so I can now disable virtual memory in Windows and possibly see a modest peformance increase in my increasingly aging laptop.

If you are looking for a distribution of Linux to try out, I would suggest the new version of CentOS. I just installed it a few days ago on a few spare partitions and it works really well for a Linux distribution. Very polished, though still not quite there for many people. I've got installed on my laptop and in a VMWare image. I'd upload the latter... but it's about 1GB compressed ;)

I have some ideas about how to expand blogging, at least with Movable Type. Only problem is that I don't know Perl well enough yet. Fortunately my copy of Perl for Dummies arrived and I will hopefully soon have time to start playing around with it. Some of the ideas are about inter-blog communication.

Sometimes I wonder if I am going to reach the point where when I get bored and do a few blogthings quizzes, I'll end up repeating entire posts. Speaking of blogthings...