Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I won't be around during the holidays, so I want to quickly, and without taking much of your time, wish you all a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

I really don't care whether you celebrate this or that, I believe wishing happiness to people shouldn't be such a terrible thing. So, here... take my wish for happiness if you will, and if not, well... you are allowed to not be happy, nobody will blame you for it.

Have fun!

Oh, Debian. How I love thee.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

- Matt Groening

So, yup, it looks like Debian will rename Firefox to Iceweasel in their next release, and it looks it's a final decision.  =/  I'm not sure I like the name, though.


BTW, where's the upgrade promised for December 4th?
http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/


OK, I'm being biased.  It wasn't actually "promised", it was speculative.

The RIAA lies

The RIAA, who claims to defend musicians, is now asking that composers and songwriters are paid less royalties, so that record companies can earn more.

If you needed something else to believe that they are hypocrites, there ya go.

Record industry executives said there was nothing strange about seeking a rate change that would pay less to the people who write the music.

Yup, nothing strange.  I'm not surprised at all.

Phobos

Fear and Terror.  Phobos and Deimos.

That's the name of Mars's two tiny moons.
When I was around 8 years old, my grand-uncle explained this to me as he walked me back home from school.

Today, watching APOD (Astronomy Picture Of the Day) a picture of Phobos caught my attention and reminded me of uncle Jos.

When I was a child, I imagined Mars and its moons to be scary places.

Right now, I think the Earth (and some of its inhabitants) is by far a lot more scary.