And the holes open up.

• A proper weapons-grade keyboard.

Getting woken at four and not getting to go back to sleep till after nine is why they unload dumptrucks full of money at my door. Makes the day a writeoff though.

Liz and I got our postal votes yesterday and will be committing democracy as soon as we can reasonably get to a post office.

This laptop runs so much better under Ubuntu Gutsy than XP. Compiz with effects turned up to "silly" is marvellous fun and the flopsy windows never fail to impress. Has anyone tried it with Kubuntu? (Update: yes.) If I run GNOME any longer I'm going to take an axe to it.

Liz, Arkady and Freda are all still ill. Curse the three-week flu. Freda gets even more excited playing on BabySplat than on AlphaBaby. And it works under Wine if you remember to set up the audio device with winecfg!

I'm deeply pissed off at the moment for excellent reasons. And going stir crazy as well. Need to go out this weekend. Desperately want the cash for an event next weekend but am unlikely to have it in time, which is all manner of fuckery and symptomatic of the grind.

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