If you like quebecer beer, I sugggest trying beer by "Le grimoire". Their "Noire soeur" tastes really good, a little like coffee and dark chocolate. The golden lion pub makes good beer too but it might be a little hard to find outside of Sherbrooke. The watermelon beer is pretty popular.

Regional beers for me. Unibroue has some good varieties, and I've liked everything I tasted from "Le Grimoire" too. Their Noire Soeur is good slightly chilled. Too cold it doesn't taste like much and too warm the bitterness overpowers the flavour, but in the right temperature range it tastes like alot like coffee and dark chocolate (on top of tasting like beer) I happen to live next to the golden lion microbrewery in Lennoxville, Quebec. Good beer, not too expensive, and they get pretty creative. Watermelon-blueberry beer? And when it comes to selection of microbrewery and regional brewery beer, gotta go to "Lauziere et fils" in Drummondville. There are beers there that I simply can't find anywhere else.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one so geeky as to call my mobile Tricorder. I figured it was hardly original but it's nice to meet someone who is akin.

My computers, laptops, VMs, and storage devices are usually named after fictional characters, following a suffix for purpose or OS (MS for windows, nix for linux distros, .Net for servers.)
For instance my pc NETBIOS is MIKU-MS and Miku.Net at home.

I really hope this means Diaspora will pick up some speed. There's a lot of potential in its model, I think.

But I really don't think anything is here to stay other than a basic text editor and coding from scratch. Besides, coding from scratch means less bloat and more control.

Maybe there's something open source? If it's open source and community supported then there's usually less chances it dies on the whim of a company. Might be a good place to look.

Thank you, that sounds like exactly what I wanted.