Ready for the floor.

• Linux share on netbooks is 32%. Yes, Microsoft lied — surprised?

• NotN: Global "vaguely giving a shit" portal to launch; Device that “smells” snake oil could identify terrorists.

Today at work I was reminded of why proprietary software should never be bought in under any avoidable circumstances: because even if you've got a nice company who work hard on support, it's still an impenetrable black box with a tap into your wallet. Open source software is like backups, redundancy and support contracts — things people just don't understand the vital necessity of until they actually get bitten in the arse by not having them.

My commute is much shorter. I get home vaguely capable of speech! I write a NotN and play with Freda. It's before midnight and I'm actually relatively relaxed. I'm also no longer worried about money, even if we haven't got any. Life is good.