Well, I got my new computer at work. It’s a Dell 370n. It’s no PowerMac G5, but I guess it’ll do. It came with RedHat Enterprise WS3, which is no Debian, but again I guess it will do. Actually, I’ve tried installing a few things on here (yes, I’m using it now) and installing things with RedHat is just a pain. If anybody from RedHat happens to be reading, I’m sorry but you suck.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my PC lately. Since the new iMac G5 came out I’ve been eying them closely. I think that I’m officially a switcher now. I’ve been using Linux for many years now. I’m considered a Guru by almost everybody I know. Linux makes an ok desktop for someone like me, but even for Mike some things about it are prohibitavely complex. I hooked him up with an intellimouse yesterday and I had to set up the scrollwheel for him.

Ok, so I got a Gmail account. It was cool, I like the interface and it seems that it’s got quite a good featureset. Searching through mail was easy and fast. Quite a lot better than my old standard of mbox filing and grepmail. And the conversation threading was very cool. But there is a problem with Gmail. Something that I can’t get around. With Gmail (or any other “free” mail service) I’m totally at the mercy of Google.

I never really got to wrap up my comments about D.C. I guess there isn’t much to say really, or maybe I’ve already thought it all out in my mind and there isn’t anything on my mind. The thing is, I’m being shuttled into an incredible possition at work. What we’re doing is getting to be extremely lucrative, we’re getting some fantastic clients (which is very cool), I was just issued a whole bunch of stock in the company, and I might (just maybe) get a promotion.

All of the things I’ve been worried about in DC completely vanished today. Every last bug has been squashed flat and juiceless. I’ve seen the entire city, photographed it all, and visited customers. Today, I worked. It wasn’t gruelling work, but it was hard work. And it was awesome. I’m so jazzed about the places I went today I’m practically jumping up and down. Of course, this is Anonymizer and I can’t tell you who it is or I’ll get fired.