You don't have to think of it as 'exploiting' a human, like pushing a button. They may simply really -be- happy. Or the opposite, they could be upset. Some cats may do this just to manipulate. But there as many different characters among cats as there are cats. Just like with dogs and humans. Even if it's a subtle difference or barely noticeable without years of knowing one another.

When will people finally stop putting the words "Linux" and "market" in the same sentence. I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu, but somehow this person seems to think that this is a "product", and that is has to do well on some kinda "market". Since this is a community driven distribution, however, "it" doesn't have to care about the market share, or even how many people use it at work, or even it's overall popularity.

Hope that wasn't the entire Duke Speech reel there, but some of the things he says are pretty hilarious.

I assume you want to do all of that online? If that is not such a big deal, the safest thing you can do is simply resort to using pen, paper, and snailmail everything home. Remember, you can even mail something home that you can touch. Like that beautiful empty clam you found on the beach,the curious looking pebble, whatever suits your fancy.

Unless you *must* go online on your *own* computer, why bring a laptop? There are so many computers around the world that you could watch movies and go online at every second corner stone even in third world countries by now. Why bring that much luggage with you.