Had Easter brunch with my brother zodiac and with graydon at one of my favourite restaurants in downtown Toronto, where the food is good but the service is always delightfully and frustratingly slow. So we got to talk a lot and catch up.
A sad article (one of many) at /. about security. Or rather, the responses were sad. I'd love to see more Linux distributions using stack protection, or automatic detection of buffer overruns with random stack cookies; I'd also like to see experiments with making shared library data memory read-only to the application by default. It doesn't matter whose fault it is, or who is the victim, I still want my computer to survive attacks.
Trying Uraeus' gnome theme (screenshot, also in (much bigger file) PNG format). Doing this shows me several buggy applications that honour text foreground colour but not background colour, so I get white text on a white background. glowers at Galeon. or it may be a theme bug.
If you like gay erotica and slightly goth fantasy, Storm Constantine's The Thorn Boy is highly recommended. She clearly enjoys writing about boys who are kept by lords or kings as pets or slaves or lovers.