Considering that the weather is getting hotter by the day and I'd rather not do a trip to the vet every 3 weeks to get food I ordered a 4Kg bag last week, in the hope that it will last until the end of the summer. I'm not going to plug any brand here, but let's say it has so far worked very well (the little girl lost 400 grams) and I'll stick to it as long as the vet is okay with it. As soon as I've arrived home Athene has started looking at the new bag with interest and given her approval. On the topic of cats, when I think about it Iris and Athene happen to be some of the nicest persons I've ever met. Honest, loyal, caring and knowing that the key to happiness lies in being able to enjoy those little things life offers. If only certain beings from other species could learn such a simple concept.

On a not so happy note, the BBC is reporting that IBM will cut 13,000 jobs worldwide. If this is what the new world economy is about, well, it plain sucks. We're not talking about a random bozo who fooled the suits into giving him VC for a crazy project, it's IBM fer Christ's sake. Anyway, good luck to those people. This incident just reminded me why I dislike corporate culture so much.

Ars Technica is running a pretty interesting article called A History of the GUI. I was already familiar with the work done by Xerox in the '70s, but it's amazing nonetheless. They created the first laserprinter in 1973. It's a shame so many people have been brainwashed into thinking Bill Gates & Co actually came up with anything original. It was also nice to see a screenshot of my beloved Amiga Workbench 1.3 after so many years :)

Plans for the weekend include getting a lot of sleep and trying to come up with a real solution to migrate the old blog. Some of the hacks I've seen out there are pretty awful, to be honest. I'll do some more research before I get my hands dirty on perl hacking. Yes, perl :)