Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion... When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.

Gentoo recently switched to make python 2.6 the default python. This means that mod_python and mod_wsgi will be re-compiled against 2.6. Which means that any python modules you’re using with Apache will also need to be re-compiled against the new version or you’ll get version mis-match errors. If you’d rather not go through all that work you can tell portage not to upgrade with the following line in /etc/portage/package.mask:

netbooknews.com has a video tour of Kingston’s China factory where they make USB flash drives (embedded below from YouTube). They are very lucky to get this tour. Factories usually do not allow visitors let alone cameras. It features the phrases “ship shooter” and “icy mounter”. Marvellous stuff for your geek.

So I got an email from Microsoft about renewing as a registered developer. Copy the link over to a PC so I can do it on IE since I’m pretty sure there’s going to be a few bits which are PC/IE specific. The web page says log in with the LiveID used for the account. Mmmm. I never used a LiveID to register. Strange. Maybe they made one for me. So I enter my email address and what I think it my password. Nope. “Either the email address or password are wrong” How helpful. So I go through…

The Orwell Prize have put George Orwell’s diaries on line via Wordpress. So now you can subscribe to the RSS feed to get new Orwell every day. Read them here.