[Bitscape listens to "The Ecstasy of Gold", the first track -- an instrumental -- played by Metallica along with the San Fransisco Orchestra. Music continues into The Call of Ktulu. Music gradually builds into a crescendo.]

Mmmm. Good stuff. Anyway...

First, a minor bitch rant, which I shall do first, mostly to get it out of the way so we can get on to better things.

1. Bitscape runs, on both his home PC and his work PC, a highly stable operating system known as "Linux". full time in both locations. Some people who are reading this page may have heard of it? Yes? Good.

   Now, under this highly stable operating system, Bitscape runs a variety of applications. Some (most preferably) free, some non-free. Some stable, some unstable. Some pretty, some ugly. Well, you get the idea.

   It just so happens that Bitscape recently added another application to the portfolio of programs he runs on his PC at work. Yesterday, he rambled about it here at some length, as he considered the experience most unique and worthy being written up as web content. This application is certainly not the most stable, but once installed, its crash rate is arguably very similar to another application Bitscape has been using for a number of years. No, it's not the most free, the most stable, or the most pretty thing around, but it allows Bitscape to get his work done more quickly and with less hassle that he could without it.

   Are there more stable equivilants in existence from the same morally bankrupt vendor? Yes. Do they cost more? Yes. Was Bitscape paying a single cent out of his own pocket either way? No. Would the increased stability matter? Doubtful, given that Bitscape will typically only enter cursed thing as long as is absolutely necessary to get the job done, and then return to more productive and generally enjoyable pursuits.

2. If certain individuals choose not to address Tobias by his proper name, I may eventually have to resort to pronouncing the name of a certain other web content other with a hard "J". That is, bring the tongue fully to the roof at the front of one's mouth before releasing the air to utter the consonant sound. This is contrasted with the action of keeping the tip of the tonge at the bottom of one's mouth for the duration of the word. If I am not clear, perhaps it is because I am not one of those linguist pronouncy people.

Hmmm.. I had other things I was planning to write, but I find that the soft, slightly sweet substance which was under my tonge has now completely finished dissolving, and I am getting verrry... sleeeepy. The good kind. Not the "knock your brain upside the ear with a 2x4" kind.

Thank you...

mentor.

I will...

rest now.