Powerpoint presentations are just horrible - especially if they contain equations. LaTeX, chalk or I'm not attending the talk.

I wouldn't say that the ISS has been a whole and complete waste. Sure - it is years behind schedule, etc., etc. but one has to admit that it has taught us a lot in terms of international cooperation, waste management, construction in zero-G among a long list of others. I truly believe that the next step to maintaining a presence in space has to come in the way of building a lunar base. It will be challenging but will have huge advantages, not the least of which is a base which is permanent (won't have to be de-orbited after a number of years), a base capable of providing on-site labs to do all sorts of analysis on lunar soil, rocks, regolith and basically, a base which will extend our knowledge of our own natural satellite by many orders of magnitude. And who knows? Perhaps one day we'll be advanced enough to manufacture components from materials found on the moon and be using that very base to send heavy spacecraft to other heavenly bodies like Mars. Discuss.

Really weird. I got the one from here here and that version simply didn't have the Unite stuff. Anyway, thanks for your help. Works now.

I tried to use the features offered by Unite on Opera 10 in Ubuntu (9.04). No dice. In fact, Unite doesn't even seem to exist in my install of Opera. What am I doing wrong?

Have you ever wondered why bus stops have such pathetic seating? It's usually just a piece of metal not much thicker than an outstretched palm (OK, this is not very common, but it can be like that). The reason is that they don't want vagrants occupying the seats - certainly not over a long period of time. McD can solve their problem very easily. Just make the seating in the wifi enabled parts of their restaurant really, really crappy. People won't linger for long that way.

Just use XFCE. You won't be sorry.

Just fvcking grate...

With what money does Obama intend to build this railway network?

Turn a disadvantage into an advantage. With the amount of research devoted to optical communication these days, these things are a godsend! The streetlamps could each have backbone connectivity to the web and voila - you have internet coverage all over your well-lit city.

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Good night, sweet prince.

...Pirate Bay acquires Warner Bros.

The issue of who is allowed to use which stall can easily be settled by a swordfight.

Tons of them. Another thing I noticed was that whenever I clicked something in that horrible Dolphin manager, Amarok would start up and start playing music for no good reason. I never got used to not being able to have icons on the desktop and in general, it was just very slow. But anyway, I'm not trying to bring KDE down here. I'm sure it's very good. All I'm saying is that it's not for me. I have been using Linux for a few years now and I'm sure that each of those issues could have had easy fixes. I'm just lazy, I suppose. And I'm not one for eye candy. Thus, the switch to XFCE was, for me, the smart thing to do.

Because even though it lacks all the "functionality" and the shiny handles and levers, it does not frustrate me. Furthermore, I did not _need_ the clocks to reside on the desktop. I decided to try to use them because they were there. I check iGoogle every time I focus the Firefox window anyway. So having the clocks there instead of on the desktop makes them more useable.