I can tell I'm not going to manage this diary thing very often. Just like every other diary I've ever had, fancy that.

Advice of the week, for those who didn't catch it in LWN: check out gnucash. I've finally transitioned my family finances over to Linux, ending one embarrassing use of non-free software. Time to reformat that other partition on my system.

If you ever get into the news site business, avoid a hard, weekly publishing schedule. My son's school play is tomorrow night, meaning I get to be up very late pushing things out.

This wasn't helped by the whole Redirect thing coming my way today. The security problem is somewhat scary in the short term, but the really unnerving thing is that there doesn't seem to be any sort of easy fix for it. It's wired too deeply into how the web works.

Of course, abolishing Javascript forevermore would help a lot, and fix a number of other problems and obnoxiousnesses at the same time...