Book of the Moment: Don't Think of an Elephant
A Linguistic examination of why Conservatives have gained so much power in recent years. Very insightful into the typical mindsets of Conservatives and Progressives and how to linguistically invoke them in people's minds. Its not the full story or the full solution, due to its fairly narrow and specialized focus, but it offers great food for thought of several things that may in fact be key to any sort of a liberal, progressive victory.
Waiting for ULink
Stupid, stupid university paid for bloated piece of worthless software. 15-20 minutes for a password change to propagate? That is some seriously poorly designed data systems, my friend.
Expenses
I've decided that its high time I used a decent personal finance application for expense tracking. I started trying out jGnash, which is a Java-based double billed accounting package. Other than a few GUI annoyances (not enough keyboard accelerators, making it tough for trackpad (non)use; plus several of my normal Swing complaints), I was pretty happy with it. I grabbed the Quicken (QIF) file from my Bank to give me all of my transactions for the last 90 days. For some eye candy, here's my expense pie chart for these last 90 days:
Dieting
I've been on a diet of sorts for about a year now. However, my diet hasn't been so much of a typical diet as it has been a willful mindstate of esculent morality. Someone pointed out that a book on a similar diet, which I had not heard of until just now, has been available for some time, being a lost classic work.
