We need to get the video up to 1000+ views so he will perform again... so please pass this on. For those that can't see it, go here (youtube.com).

At the moment, I haven't decided on a distro for it. I'm by far the. Most familiar with Gentoo. However, it has never been the best choice for servers. So I'm more or less between Ubuntu and Debian as final choices. Suggestions are very much welcome.

The server is mostly going to be used for storage purposes, so I'm fairly sure I'm going to rely on ext4 as the filesystem for my raid array. Again, it's still up in the air. Off the top of my head, I don't entirely remember what other services I wanted to run on it... But it isn't a machine I plan to leave on 24/7 for the moment. I'd really like to build a mini-itx Atom machine to take care of email and other network services for my home.

So more updates will come from this in the near future as I finish assembling the machine itself.

• Firefox - My only real complaint about Firefox is the lack of support for the QT toolkit. Yes, there is a project going on to port it over to QT... sadly, the progress is slow and the usability isn't there yet.
• Thunderbird - KMail isn't that bad, but it randomly crashed on me. For that reason, I use Thunderbird. Again, no QT support. My other complaint is that the "Message Checker" plasmoid doesn't support Thunderbird for checking mail.
• Pidgin - Kopete doesn't stand a chance against Pidgin. It's a more solid codebase, and much more widely supported. I think Kopete would benefit more if they build a QT client for libpurple, Pidgin's backend.
• OpenOffice.org - This has shown the most improvement in this area over all the other programs I've listed so far. QT4 support finally arrived a week or so ago, and now I'm just waiting for Gentoo to update Portage. KOffice is a very nice office suite, but OpenOffice.org is a much more robust application.

Reasons such as those above are what have sparked my interest in developing a QT4 client for XMMS2. I'm hoping that in the near future we'll see more KDE/QT4 compatibility with some of these programs I've listed.

Unfortunately, all I can remember is that I was standing inside a classroom full of people standing up. I turned towards the door and saw my friend Chris Hernandez standing there. I gasped, then tried to move towards him, but he ran out the door. After I left the classroom, I woke up and couldn't manage to fall back asleep.

Chris committed suicide in 2007... and I haven't seen him since. It's so distinctly odd that I would see him in a dream like that. Especially when I woke up from it and couldn't get back to sleep... almost like a ghastly feeling was tingling the back of my head. Visitation from an old friend, or a sign of something to come?

Things are going well. I'm looking for a new job, and contemplating how I'd like to finish up my bachelor's degree. For the time being, I think I'm going to stick with the restaurant industry. Honestly, I love the people, and I love the hours. A 9-5 job seems so boring to me, and I've never been one to get up early more than two days in a row.

I have some exciting projects I'm slowly working on. Obviously, number one is BIOSLEVEL, my group's product review site with an open source-twist. It's down at the moment, but I promise it won't be down much longer. I just need to finish interfacing with phpBB3 and make a few other small adjustments before it will live again.

Also in my newfound spare time, I started working on a QT4 XMMS2 client. I don't have much accomplished outside of an interface, but it's promising. I'm not a fan of Amarok, and using a GTK-based audio player just isn't pretty. I'd like to incorporate many different ideas into it such as Last.FM browsing, multiple playlists, iPod support, and much more. Once I have a little more going, be certain that there will be a post here about it