I think I should hand out dpk.net Alexa ranking t-shirts at the next convention.

Here is a link that was shared to me. I now share it to you.

Garfield minus Garfield. I see now it was already on digg. I’ve failed you all.

The dpk-owning-a-house experiment has come to an end. Bought in a seller’s market, and sold in a buyer’s market, and I still came out ahead. Plus, I left the house in better shape than it was when I bought it. Everybody wins! Especially the excise tax board, sheesh.

To help pass the time waiting for the #28 bus, running on a Sunday schedule this being the great American holiday President’s Day, I went to the corner market and bought a red pen and a pad of paper. Both were proudly made in the USA. The pen, red to be patriotic, or because it was the only choice available? You decide. The paper is white, and if you squint and are colorblind the cover might look like what you would have to assume is blue.

However, the pen does not write, even though I intended to extol the virtues of compromise, and the “power of pride.” What a shame. Instead, I had to write this on my made-in-Mexico cell phone.

Every once in a while I’ll go out and pick up some CDs. I have an eMusic subscription, which is pretty awesome, but they don’t carry everything, and sometimes I just like to have the album art in my hands.

Like hundreds of others, I own an iPod, and use it for almost all of my music listening. I load it using iTunes. I use Windows, and presumably Apple is writing this software to try to lure me over to the Mac side. I mean, if I love it, I’m really going to love the Finder and all that, right? I sincerely hope I am wrong with this presumption.

So iTunes maintains a “Recently Added” playlist. It contains all of the tracks you’ve most recently ripped or added to your playlist. You can sync this playlist to your iPod, which is pretty sweet, because then you “always” have your new music in an easy to find place.

The problem? iTunes adds the tracks to the playlist, as they’re ripped, even if you’re ripping the entire CD in one operation. As implied by its name, the playlist is loaded by adding tracks to the beginning rather than the end. The result? When you go to play the tracks back on your iPod, they play back in reverse order. Brilliant!

They were thorough enough to include balls. Impressive.

One of the most difficult things to deal with while using a Linux desktop is the clipboard. There are apparently two clipboards on my desktop — perhaps more? I’m running Debian Etch w/ Gnome 2 based apps, if that matters.

If you copy text from one window, you may not be able to paste it in to another if it contains certain characters. For example, press releases on Google’s AP site include some sort of double-dash character. If you’re careful not to select that character, you can copy from the page and paste into gnome-terminal or xterm. A more annoying example: to copy text displayed in Flash, you have to select the text, right-click and choose Copy, and then paste it in to some other application such as Firefox or Pidgin. Then copy it from there and paste it to your terminal. It’s a major hassle.

Then there are situations where you’ll copy text in one window and try to paste into another, only to end up pasting something completely different that you’d selected ages ago. It’s almost enough to make me want to switch to Windows at work.

Those of you who use Linux as a desktop: How do you deal with this issue? Or, alternatively, how have you avoided it?

I’ve tried to use glipper, but it doesn’t seem to install properly, at least on my desktop. It won’t appear as a panel option, and when it’s run from the menu, nothing happens. It just sits there and uses CPU time, reading and writing from some buffer over and over again. If glipper really is the shit I’ll try to figure out what’s wrong with my installation of it, but if it’s shit I’ll look elsewhere.

You’ve probably already seen this on digg. CNN is officially no better than Fox News.

I know CNN is part of the evil “mainstream media,” but still, I expected better than this. I don’t think I could bring myself to go to cnn.com any more. I certainly won’t watch it on TV (not that I did very often).