Dear Pittsburgh, During our time together for the last year and a half, my life has been changed, and now I can't imagine living apart from you. Your universities, your hills, and your adorable lakes have truly captured my heart, like no other city has. Dallas will always be my first city, and Columbus will remain my friend, but Pittsburgh, I offer you my heart. Will you marry me? I offer, in celebration of this engagement, a promise not to drive places frivolously, and I'll make an effort to clean up the litter that some people litter you with. In return, if you could make an effort to find me some human romances and friends.. And as our marrage, I will buy a house when the time is right.

Ahh, another entry for the filter.. spam.mis.stu.edu.tw .. has sent me about 40 messages over the last few days. buh-bye... :)

This might amuse. So, no doubt a question for Linux enthusiasts everywhere -- Does Novell deserve our loyalty? Currently, IBM has a lot of goodwill from our community, and for good reason. They're primarily a services company, they produce open software, and they've been pushing our stuff as part of their solutions. They've also taken a very positive role WRT the SCO lawsuit, and have been good to RedHat. Although, as with all companies, we must remain vigilant against betrayal, IBM has been a good friend to the community, and so many of us have pushed IBM solutions in our workplace and otherwise. Novell is a strange company, with an odd relationship to Unix. Each time it's gotten involved, it's been with a purchase, from the name to the rights, and from what I know, it hasn't done significant work itself on it yet. However, with its flagship product, Netware, in its final death throes (incidentally, throes is a weird word that you never see outside of that word pair), Linux might represent a new religion. To that end, Novell's bought Ximian and SuSE. So, we'll have to wait and see... I always had a certain fondness for the Novell of old.. the red and stripes... They also did give us the old Unix sources before they spun that division back off into Caldera (which became the SCO Group, which I'll claim bears no actual tie to the old, true SCO, which was just dumb but not evil.) So, Novell might have a few points on its side..

:)

It's too cold to keep working outside.. So maybe I won't go to Coffee Tree so often.. On the upside, there's a new Indian restaurant opening up near my place in Squirrel Hill.. Yay.