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Yesterday Shannon and I signed a notarial contract, Shannon spills the beans

Although I've never visited Havana, one of the appeals of the Mojito is the taste of Cuba - c.f. Die Another Day. However one tip for the wise: order only one of this fine minty cocktail in any one bar. The second invariably fails to live up to the promise of the first; in particular the quantity of mint leaf drops quite dramatically, as though my drinking tokens only qualify me for a handful.

Bloody Marys, on the other hand, should be ordered in merry abundance - even on low quality flights such as this lumbering NWA (yo yo) DC-10 flying San Francisco to Tokyo. Shannon and I have just made our way through several, and my only concern is that the Mr&Mrs T's can warns that "Separation is normal". Fortunately our relationship has survived thus far, albeit a little shaken.

(written a little while back on my Palm)

The usually rather tacky cnet has an excellent piece by Joe Firmage, who I've never previously heard of but is apparently an ex-VP of Novell who was involved in a key part of the whole SCO 0wns Linux debacle.

The model of open science is "communistic" in the sense of community ownership--or rather community stewardship. But innumerable highly successful organizations and institutions in America are founded upon the ideal of community stewardship--including our democracy itself.

The downfall of communism was due to state control by totalitarians--an attribute embodied by today’s commercial software industry far more than by the emergent open-source science of information technology.