world gone mad

With palm's recent announcement that it will have a Linux-based Treo by year end and all the hoopla around the upcoming apple OS X palmtop, this seems like a really good time to be in the FOSS world.

I haven't seen the specs of either OS yet, of course. But I can guess at the hardware that they will both debut on, and I'm fairly confident that both devices will be more powerful than the first Linux box I ever worked on. I'm hoping that the end result will be a full enough set of posix libraries to move the LAMP stack with little trouble. "Little trouble" being a relative term, of course.

Restaurant week has been announced again - $21.12 for a meal for 2 at dozens of spots. Details here.

Hey - in other news, we apparently have 4 of the top 10 Irish bars in the country, despite having (AFAIK) about the smallest Irish population of the boroughs...

I'm a GNOME user, but on my brother's suggestion I tried Amarok a month or so ago, and never looked back. I've used most of the popular music players for linux as well as iTunes & WMP, and I'd actually call Amarok the best on any platform. It's not even close.

One really nice feature is the database integration. I think every application should have this option, and not just because I work for a database company. Amarok can keep all its information in a MySQL database, and that includes the song lyrics it pulls down from the web.

I never thought I'd be happy to step out into a cold Brooklyn winter, but I have been the last few days. Maybe "relieved" is more like it. 70 degree days in early January just feels spooky these days, though I bet it felt heaven sent in '71.