Sleep disruption: How to Get More Hours in the Day*

*During which you will get distracted by minutae, and your vocabulary will contract, and your memory will provide lavishly-detailed flashbacks to irrelevant events: so the chances of achieving more in any given day are zero.

It is unnatural to have done all of one's housework before 7 a.m.

Confirmed: Bill Gates is Dark Lord

Cannot now be bothered to look for hackneyed hacker humour about 'One OS to rule 'em all': but this, below, makes me very happy. And feeds my inner geek.

"Parts two and three of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy [use]software that runs on a free operating system... Weta Digital, the New Zealand-based company contracted to handle the trilogy's animation, rendering and compositing requirements, is gradually moving away from using Silicon Graphics's operating system, Irix, in favour of open-source operating system Linux ... Although Maya and Shake [modelling and compositing applications] are also available on NT, Mr Labrie said Microsoft's system did not scale very well. Linux was better because it was easier to administer and more robust, he said."

Bwa ha ha. Full article (from the Australian Financial Review)