Hi, Steve Jobs! Don't worry, you're not a sociopath. After all, "Like it or not but success is the most clear indicator for psychological health we have."

Boy, you sure do love the word "Technolust," don't you? I usually only use it three or four times an hour, myself... a little less during the holidays.

I know you want to preserve her memory for your kids... but there's only so much you can do, and apparently only a limited amount of time left. If you spend too much of your time simply documenting her life, you may one day regret not spending more one-on-one time with her, unencumbered by things like worrying about videotaping and documenting every last second. No matter what, you will have regrets, but you should spend quality time with her while she is here, and not worry so much about documentation. This is all part of life - it sounds like you may have already done enough documentation for the time being, and perhaps now you should allow yourself and your kids to actually experience her as she is. Memories become distorted but still there is no substitute for real experience.

You highly doubt a professional musician would stray from Pro Tools? What about Logic Studio, Digital Performer, SONAR, and the reams of other Digital Audio Workstaitons? Many professionals use these as well, often integrated with Digidesign's high-end TDM hardware. Logic in particular destroys Pro Tools in terms of features and price and many are making the switch. Pro Tools' integration with Digidesign's proprietary hardware has become a handicap in the prosumer price range particularly, as Digidesign's hardware is trounced, in terms of features and sound quality, by other less expensive offerings.

That might be where your problem lies. M-Audio's hardware is worse than Digidesign's (although they are the same company) ! All kidding aside though, M-Audio driver support for Linux is sketchy. My M-Audio Delta 1010LT works beautifully under Linux with the ICE driver. It requires some configuration, but so does setting up a digital audio workstation in OSX or Windows - especially Windows. Also, latency and the like depends on the distro you're using. The reality is that Linux has tons of free audio software, and could easily be used to replace my Logic Pro setup, except for the lack of commercial plugins and sound libraries. As this is fixed, Linux will be more viable.

Good point. Once Linux is packaged well for musicians and audio professionals, I believe it could supersede Windows as the #2 platform for digital audio. Then again, in 10 years, maybe Haiku will be up there as well, with its BeOS underpinnings. For a good example of what Ardour can do/be when combined with proprietary DSP, check out Harrison Mixbus. http://www.harrisonconsoles.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=42 It is under $100 (or was last time I checked) and features that Harrison sound combined with Ardour's power. It is OSX-only at the moment, but it will be available for Linux eventually. I've already used Mixbus to mix a few projects via Logic; once it is available for Linux it will replace Ardour as my main Linux DAW of choice.

Hmm, I want to sign up for this HIV support group on Facebook... who cares if everyone who googles my name sees it? Very disingenuous - do you work for Facebook? The point that you conveniently ignore is that Facebook's privacy settings are labrynthine and constantly changing. They continually exploit more and more of their users' data in a manner which, "new Terms of Service" notwithstanding, the users did not agree to when they signed up and are largely not aware of. While the article misses the mark with its suggestions, Facebook's interface is designed to fool users who are not tech-savvy or are just too busy to read the fine print; to dupe them into giving more information to marketers than ever before, and to share as much information about themselves as legally possible. Facebook is being duplicitous and greedy, and while it may be legal, and it may be done in degrees, their privacy policy is beyond the pale compared to previous market leaders. Of course, you could avail yourself of the benefits of Facebook by opening an account with a fake name and fake info - but that is illegal and people have actually been subject to police action for it.

Don't forget that in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are supplying... that's right, universal healthcare!