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I just successfully switched hosting providers. Looks like everything’s up again and running happily on the new host.

Now that I’m getting more serious about switching to Linux, I had to come up with a good strategy for sharing data between Linux and Windows. I still need Windows XP for games, and potentially for a few other applications, so I’m not quite ready to give it up completely. Unfortunately, sharing data between the two operating systems still isn’t trivial. The first problem is that Linux still does not support writing to NTFS partitions....

I don’t tend to post political comments on my blog, but Andy Hunt dug up this wonderful, 84 year old quote that seems oddly relevant now: When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental—men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand....

According to this Slashdot posting, the BBC has announced that it will be releasing new radio adaptations of Douglas Adams last three Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books. The clou is that Douglas Adams himself will provide the voice for Agrajag, a character whose reincarnations keep getting killed by Arthur Dent. Apparently, Douglas Adams always wanted to play this part and he therefore recorded it some time before his death....