Just a bunch of random stuff today:

• Seb got his first immunizations yesterday. What a truly heartbreaking event, seeing the boy in pain like that. He seems to be a little less grumpy today though…
• After an all-too-human start to the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong and the rest of the US Postal Service team flexed their muscles yesterday and crushed the field in the team time trial. Armstrong is now one second off the lead, held by teammate Victor Hugo Pena.
• I have trouble believing reports that both Karl Malone and Gary Payton will end up the LA Lakers. Malone would have to take a $15 million paycut to join the team…is a championship that important to him? I also have trouble believing that four superstars can exist on that team, giving how long it took Kobe and Shaq to get along. Plus, there’s the little hurdle of learning the triangle offense. Payton and Malone are bright basketball players, but expectng them to contribute immediately in that system might be a little too hopeful.
• I finally switched over to Gnome at work. I found a nice Aqua-esque theme, and I’m quite happy at this point. I’ve found when using a distro like RedHat (which is required where I work) many of the system-related apps are GTK+ based (the programming library for Gnome), so even if you’re using KDE and the QT API, you lose consistent interface. But within Gnome, you don’t have to use any KDE apps, so the theme is applied across all of the apps. Quite nice.

Posted on 10 July 2003