Today we find me sitting with a cup of coffee, listening to Beethoven’s Midnight Sonata, waiting to watch University Challenge. Contrast that to last night where I was at a gig watching Death Cab for Cutie, wearing a hat with a badge that says “what a waster” and drinking Guinness.

Variety is the spice of life, you know, and I’m loving it right now for some reason.

10 points for Gnome from Acts of Volition. I look forward to the interface critique, usually very constructive criticism.

I’d agree that the Gnome mailing lists are sensitive to being told that Linux UIs tend to look like throw-backs. However, much of the UI work that is being done is the low level stuff. Linux was not focused on desktop use for a long time. This means that it is still impersonating other operating systems in many ways. One way to look at this is to ask, why bother to find new ways to solve problems that have been solved well already? I don’t think there is much point. Copy what is there now and then use the time saved to innovate once the basics are there.

A couple of days ago, I got contact lenses for the first time. I’d like to take the opportunity to say they rock. It’s an epipany to be able to see so well all the time.

I did learn this morning that putting them in is something that I haven’t got the hang of yet. Especially after a rather late night last night!

We’re run out of coffee. Oh dear. This could be very bad indeed…

People like to be in control. It’s a fact that we are all used to. Feeling in control promotes a much better sense of contentedness with a given process than one in which one feels one has no control. Take the other day, for example. I was buying something online. Half way through the process, I realised that I wasn’t happy with how the purchase was going.

To begin with, I couldn’t quite work out why. Then it hit me. I didn’t feel in control. I didn’t know how many steps were left to complete my order. Would I suddenly commit to purchase with my next click? I was clueless. So I stopped my order. It was as simple as that.