Meta: Welcome to Three New Readers, Travel Plans

I have once again increased my readership, and once again, I only know who 33% of them are. *sigh* Feel free to introduce yourselves here, or in another context, or not, as it suits you. I apologize for so boldly calling attention to your existence, but hope the fault is somewhat mitigated by not listing your handles. This whole thing really overloads my ettiqutte (sp) sub-routines.

Having traversed a few more BSTs, I found a clue about the context of one new reader, although I am still not sure what, if any, biological entitiy might be associated with...

Oh, and more importantly, I have my tickets for this weekend!
Having checked the train schedule again, I need to go pack (in a couple hours ;)

Bad Apple, Bad!

Originally conceived as a comment on Scot Hacker's weblog here

After all the lovely hype about new stuff in Jaguar, and remembering how Puma went, I had actually almost convinced myself to cough up $20 or as much as $50 USD for it when it shipped 4q 2002 or 1q2003. I was going to have trouble coughing up that much with the pushed up release date, but I was willing to do it somehow. This, however is crap. APPL (ala Mr. Steve) has removed any likelihood of me paying for Jaguar at all, and I won't even mention the impending death of my cute but valueless mac.com account.

Perhaps the most offensive bit of all of this gouging is that I just bought a new Mac, my first new Mac ever, and I bought it from APPL online. It came preloaded with Puma, and I was (and am, damnit) quite happy with her (as you all are sick of hearing about), and it is far from being paid for yet. Since February, I have avoided partitioning the thing, but now it looks like I will have to consider dual booting Linux (et al) on it, as APPL thinks it can get another $129 USD out of me for printing support (I have no printer), hardware graphics acceleration (won't work on my machine), ,AIM (jabber?!), gcc 3.x (apt-get install gcc-3.1 suits me fine), spam filtering (spamassassin and procmail on the mail server, not the client), iTunes3 (still no

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