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Monday, October 29, 2001Wrote a letter to The Wichita Eagle, following up on a news story about how much Microsoft's licensing would cost the state of Kansas (a perpetual budget crunch there):
Your editorial on how Microsoft is using its monopoly to mug the state government of Kansas urges Kansas to seek out competitors, but it doesn't go far enough in identifying the one real alternative: Open Source software. The fact is that millions of people around the world have turned to Open Source software like Linux for relief from Microsoft. Returning to the notebook after almost two months hiatus: a lengthy trip to New York and back, prolonged by the World Trade Center tragedy. Sooner or later I'll write more about that (some back-filled notebook entries, some ongoing commentary), but now for more pressing matters. Cooked one of my most ambitious birthday dinners. Lot of work, I found myself promising more than once to never do it again. But it came off pretty smooth: two meals, 17 dishes, 13 people. We had mostly family over on Friday, and most plus a few friends back for cleanup on Saturday. The menu was North African, mostly from Morocco.
At present, the recipes are only partly typed up. It occurs to me that I should reconstruct the recipe files as a web-accessible database. That might be one of those simple "scratch your itch" projects that gets me programming again. Got mail today telling me that the ocston.org web site will be closed down. Moving my stuff to tomhull.com will be easy enough, but that dredges up a problem that I've been avoiding: my current web hosting service has been unsatisfactory, and I've felt a need to replace them, but haven't gotten around to it. Need to bite the bullet on that, but this is bad timing. Movie: Ghost World. Under the circumstances, I found this tedious and meandering. I missed, for instance, most of the R. Crumb references, not least of which was Steve Buscemi's slump. B+
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