Be your own pet.

• How the Bengali Wikipedia works. The Wikipedia process being the only likely hope for any encyclopedia existing in many small languages. I found this fantastically cheering. Update: Although tcpip has pointed out to me that Bengali is not small, just computer-deprived: 200 million speakers. *ahem*

• Classified of the week.

• W0rng.

• Why WIPO and the media companies seem to smoke so much goddamn crack.

• Someone did in fact get fired for buying Microsoft.

I shall be at B-Movie later, having packed everything I'll probably need. I think. I'll be arriving early and leaving a bit after midnight. arkady plans to be there too. redcountess would very much like to if suddenly afflicted with health.

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I failed to connect with irisetta yesterday — Katie, I'll have the camera (if not the full accessory kit) this evening. Which is a start.

Congratulations to webcowgirl on having achieved the necessary physical component of her London dream, having arrived in body at least just a couple of hours ago. We will all do whatever we can to make the rest work.

Today I am adding Windows boxes to the Amanda backup config and fielding trouble reports from large media companies about problems we have no power over. Doing okay on appeasement duty.