Getting Technical

Faithful readers might notice that there are almost no posts on Feathers of Hope about technical geeky things. This is because I have neither the knowledge nor the inclination to indulge in them, and Numenius, though he has plenty of knowledge, spends his days immersed in them and would rather post here about other things. Suffice to know that ours is a Microsoft-free household: I’m a Mac person, Numenius is a Unix/Linuxhead whose favorite editor is the command-line vi (which he tells me is not quite true, there are different editors for different tasks; none of them is made by Microsoft, though).

This may be about to change, as I gear up for some Linux lessons this weekend. Although I don’t strictly need it for my work or my play, there’s enough good stuff available in the way of open source software that I’m willing to dabble. In particular I want to get more proficient in Fontforge, a type design program.

For now, here’s a Microsoft columnists/gmsv/10581891.htm”>story that I’ll gleefully pass along: Bill Gates was addressing a crowd of thousands when the blue screen of death appeared behind him. Get a Mac, Bill.