The phone rang. It's the middle of the day. I'm working at home. The phone shows some number from Ontario. I think "Who the heck is calling from Ontario?" I'm working so I'm tempted not to answer it. Curiosity causes me to give in.

A loud and scratchy recording starts to play. "YOU HAVE AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM SEARS PORTRAIT STUDIO ...".

No I don't. I hung up right then. Boneheads. I have no desire to deal with your company.

My phone, my convience. Oh, I could try sending them a bill for 15 minutes of lost "flow" time.

A few weeks ago I switched to Fedora 5. Yesterday I ran the system update tool. It updated. Later on I rebooted. My gnome "start menu" was gone. The panels at the top and bottom of the screen are missing. Two very small and empty panels were floating near the top left of the screen.

I managed to add the main menu back to one panel. I also made both panels the full width. I don't have all of the icons on the panels I used to have.

Probably even more frustrating than the panels is that all of the keyboard shortcuts are broken. ie Alt-Tab does not work. Alt-Ctrl-arrow (left/right) does not switch workspaces. But get this: Holding down a key no longer causes it to repeat! That is incredibly annoying.

Red Hat I hate you.

Why doesn't firefox have spell checking functionality like Opera does? (Opera uses aspell or ispell. It is not part of the Opera install.)

Why doesn't firefox have a "kill from cursor to end of line" like Opera and BASH and Emacs and VI and anything that uses readline? http://www.pcbypaul.com/linux/firefox_kbd.html says ctrl-k works but it does not.

I went shopping for new shirts today. (I do not like shopping. I really do not like shopping for clothes.)

I learned a couple things:
1) I have expensive taste.
2) Most shirts have a bunch of spare fabric around the middle in the belly region. I'm guessing I don't have quite the belly that most people do.