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The latest chapter in my coffee-table-building saga sent me looking for dowel markers. Apparently, they've nearly all ascended to the metaphysical state of wild geese.

Got a haircut today, which is a big deal concerning the weather. On a hot day like this, (27°C), You sure notice losing a pound of thick curly locks from the top of your head. I've had a lot of people cut my hair over the years, and lots of them have commented on how wonderful and thick my hair is.

This weekend I found my cat using the bathroom sink as a toilet. "Not good," thought I, "for he only does that when he's sick." My concern only deepened as I noticed a reddish tinge in the little spot of urine in the sink.

Something I've run across since my switch to Compiz on my laptop, which I figured I'd report here so that I can find the answer later on. (and some other reader out there might find it useful too)

At work I have a 20" LCD which I attach to my laptop, for more screen real-estate. My laptop has an NVidia video chipset, complete with TwinView and dual-head support, but normally I just run the outputs cloned together, and just use the large display when I'm at my desk.

Just wanted to let all my avid readers know that I've got some new nature and animal photos, and posted the results of some RAW photo manipulation in my Experiments album.

I've also updated the RSS feed settings for my Gallery, so that it is a little more useful. Check it out.

...that GNOME plays nice with LUKS-encrypted portable devices? I sure didn't, until this morning.

(Of course, if you already knew this, then I'm probably not going to tell you anything new, so you can safely skip this article. But hey, you never know, so you might want to read on anyway.)

So, I've been playing with VBox on my laptop, and wanting to access files on a connected USB thumbdrive.

But try as I might, I cannot get the virtual machines to see attached USB devices. Turns out, it's due to a problem of permissions in Debian Lenny. Basically, /proc/bus/usb is mounted in such a way that VirtualBox cannot correctly enumerate the devices.

Today a coworker pointed out to me Sun's VirtualBox, which is an Open-source virtualization platform (much like VMWare Workstation.) Thus far, I've only installed it on my laptop and installed Windows XP into a VM, but I like it already.

Well, I got my money's worth out of the recent Quesnel Home and Leisure Show. Some interesting information about titanium-coated cookware, posts you screw into the ground, and pimped-out hot tubs.