I've been looking for a hat for a while, but have been letting the search for the perfect hat get in the way of buying a good hat. This one fits somewhere in between my two hat ideals -- one being the big floppy brown hat that Tom Baker wore as Doctor Who, and the other being somewhat of a mesh-sided Australian outback kinda thing, except that I never actually like those when they're on my head.

Anyway, I think I'm gonna like this one a lot. It's by Tilley Endurables, and is "insured against lost, guaranteed for life." Oh, and it's made of hemp. Yay.

for a long time I've had a sense of who I want to be, who I am striving to become. and while I'd certainly sometimes slack on that vision, I knew what it was.

now I don't know, anymopre. I suppose that must be because I spent a few years focused on who WE were becoming, and all the struggles and frustration and excitement of attempting to create a joint long-term vision with someone at least as independent and slackful as I am (and perhaps more emotionally needy.)

With Microsoft's announcement that (in effect) Windows Update won't work anymore unless you've got a legal copy of Windows, some geeks in the anti-spam space are torn. Keeping Windows up to date is extremely important for both personal and Internet-wide security, but being forced to admit to Microsoft that you paid for their software is an outrage to the knee-jerk anti-Microsoft crowd (and just feels kinda slimy to the rest of us.)

So, what's the morality here?

I'd think that from Microsoft's point of view, they'll win either way.