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Hmmmm, yeah, super fun !

Yola is the new name for SynthaSite.

"Our website builder lets you easily take what's in your head and turn it into webpages in front of your eyes. Yola lets you make great-looking sites with webpages that work beautifully together. We do it without imposing banner ads or throwing up pop-up ad windows everywhere."

If anyone asks what genre my band is, I'm going to say "Post-Contemporary" from now on. :-D

Thanks, AC !

Or blow it all on booze, coke and hookers !

Inside I see that Bill is a mechanic of the "photographic mind" school. Everything lying around everywhere. Wrenches, screwdrivers, old parts, old motorcycles, new parts, new motorcycles, sales literature, inner tubes, all scattered so thickly and clutteredly you can't even see the workbenches under them. I couldn't work in conditions like this but that's just because I'm not a photographic-mind mechanic. Bill can probably turn around and put his hand on any tool in this mess without having to think about where it is. I've seen mechanics like that. Drive you crazy to watch them, but they get the job done just as well and sometimes faster. Move one tool three inches to the left though, and he'll have to spend days looking for it.

Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right where they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see he is selling a whole Harley machine in used parts, except for the frame, which the customer already has. He is selling them all for $125. Not a bad price at all.

Coming back I comment, "He'll know something about motorcycles before he gets those together."

Bill laughs. "And that's the best way to learn, too."

from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.

Author's Note

What follows is based on actual occurrences. Although much has been changed for rhetorical purposes, it must be regarded in its essence as fact. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either.

A Trek 5 paraquote ? Kudos !

...because any self-respecting geek knows that meteorites are what impact at ground level.

Damn right we are ! Would you rather spend 20 minutes composing a detailed response, or earn $100 in 30 seconds by simply down-modding a pro-Linux post on /. ?

If you want to find out how to sign up for the MS Professional Shill program, send me a PM. This could be your passport to financial freedom !

So much for the validity of anything you say.

The year of Linux on NVIDEA.

An 8MHz 68K Amiga with 1MB of RAM could handle neither of these tasks - don't be ridiculous.

I wonder how many basement-dwellers have bred their own private 40,000 generations of E-Coli ?

The Amiga offered one helluva lot of bang for your bucks back in the day. The OS was relatively slick from both the user and developer perspectives. The graphics and sound hardware was pretty decent, too. A good quantity of third-party software and games. Genlock abilities and TV-standard screen modes made for great video-captioning abilities, etc.

But come on. Even a mid-spec'ed Windows PC can handle genuine video editing, multi-track virtual recording studios with awesome soft synths and effects plug-ins, 24-bit colour to massive resolutions. All without having to work too hard in order to play nice with other apps and the OS itself.

Great in the day, but only interesting in a historical context. The same could be said of the Atari ST or Acorn Archimedes.

(Ex-Amiga 500+ owner and developer.)

Very, very few people are actually denying climate change; change is the norm - stasis is the exception. Is it right, however, to lump together those who are skeptical of evolution with those who are skeptical of AGW, particularly CO2-driven AGW ?

As Scott Adams says; "The Holodeck will be mankind's last great invention". I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to work out why we'd never ever want to leave.