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OK, time for a non-techie post. After all, were all humans, right? Well, maybe... I love halloween. Love it. Best holiday of them all. I loved it as a kid, and it just gets better as an adult. I like the weather, I like the decorations, I like the beer. It's a great time. This weekend one of my favorite podcasts will be doing their Halloweekend - in which new shows will be posted each night starting on Friday - should be a blast. Check it out! Maybe you need something fun to listen to while you hand out treats or head to your halloween parties :)

Just read this Ubuntu review - I used Ubuntu on my primary work machine for a long time, but it's been a few years since I used it now... time to get back in I think. Wonder if it will work on my old sony vaio - I suspect it has proprietary hardware that may cause problems....

(yes, decided to try to post some more, got really busy for a while and this project - among many others - got sidelined...) A couple days ago Dropbox saved me from a significant amount of repair work. Dropbox is a free online backup/file sync tool available for windows, mac and Linux. Basically you set up a folder different computers. Anything in that folder is a synced to all the other computers. This is handy for easily keeping things available that you need on different machines. It's also handy for collaborating with other people, in that you can give people access to specific subdirectories of your dropbox folder. I did this for a project I was working with a designer on. He spent hours working on a photoshop file, then told me that it was ready for me to use... I opened the file, and only about 10% of the required stuff seemed to be there! Uhoh. I called him, and he swore up and down that he'd done the work, etc. Well, Dropbox also has another handy feature - previous v