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So my enormous yet nearly barren tomato plant fell under its own weight last night with a little help from the storm. Yes, there were pepper casualties. I am not a fan of that plant. I tied it up to the fence so at least it'll stay up for the time being, but I am seriously thinking about chopping it down.

Stacey found a cool wedding web page lindsayanderik.com, which inspired me to fix up ryanandstacey.com a bit. I'm open to suggestions on how to make it better. The next changes will be a countdown to the date, fixing the ugly-ass wiki, adding a "add to your outlook calendar" vcf file, and possibly putting some goofy ryan & stacey pictures up there.

I've been meaning to put together a randomly changing image for the header of this page, but I haven't found an easy way to generate them quite yet. I really need to get on the ImageMagick bandwagon.

CCNA test coming soon. Study study study.

I got a Athlon 3200+ laptop. It's pretty nice - running Ubuntu and yes, Windows. It's nice to have a Windows machine so I can play with picassa, google earth, and google video. It's also funny to see how friggin whack Windows is.

programs crash

the three finger salute is a mainstay

randomly windows will redraw... or not

some options just plain don't work (show network icon in system tray when not connected)

there are like 1000 annoying things in the system tray by default

they don't include a good unzip program, dvd player, pdf viewer, or good browser by default

the friggin system tray pops up with all sorts of bubble things that probably everyone ignores (ie "You are connected to the network", "Things are fun", "I like cheese")

Conversely Ubuntu comes with a good browser, a bittorrent client, pdf viewer, photoshop equivalent, office suite, and photo managment software. Unfortunately patent encumbered things like multimedia (mp3, css encrypted DVDs) , proprietary software (Java, Flash, ATI Video Drivers), and ACPI (hibernate, suspend) are a bit on the hurrrrting side.