This is a test of the emergency bloggedcat system...

This is only a test.

Hello again....

I'm not dead yet! Just took a little break. I'm sure I'll have more to say. Besides, I'm testing something.

SO there I was feeling froggy one day...

I've praised Knoppix in various places in the past, but I've never tried it out myself. I love the idea of an "easy-to-use" alternative OS that runs from a CD (and doesn't require installation). I downloaded Knoppix last night and burned the CD from the .iso. I had problems making the wireless work, but long story short, I did some research and just like Jay said in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, I made that shit work. This is a pretty slick and easy to use little distro and I'll be playing around with it some more. Give it a shot! More later... Suzanne wants to go eat dinner.

Damn, where the hell have I been?

I rarely use my desktop computer and my laptop was out of commission for a couple of weeks. I am indeed still among the living...

And I fixed my laptop!

For a diversion, check out my new moblog. I've finally joined the 21st century by getting a cell phone.

Perhaps this will bring about a more earnest dialogue of privacy choices/practices/issues in this Patriot Act/DCS1000/"War on Terror" America that we all live in. Are you bothered that something like this could happen and the company involved could keep it hidden (unless you live in California or it's discovered by the media)? I'm going to contact my Senators and suggest that they get to work on this.

Happy New Year (a week late)...

If I wasn't working New Year's morning and sleeping the next day, I was driving to Chicago to see the kickass show that I saw (VNV Nation w/ CodeR23), partying until the wee hours of the morning just to wake up the next morning to drive back home through crappy weather and getting ready to remove the snow from our driveway. I suppose it's all good! While I'd rather not put up with the snow (or at least as much as we get here), certain more southerly government agencies don't appear to need my services. I like what I'm doing here and now...

As Suzanne has mentioned recently, this isn't the first time I've driven in junk weather to go have fun. Hell, why let a little snow get in the way of having fun? I think that the differences in our views on the answer to that question lie in the fact that she spent all of the first 22 years of her life in the Deep Dixie South.