Most of yesterday was spent setting up (virtual) Linux servers, at work. This reminded me that some time ago I published a list of applications that I couldn’t live without on a PC. My list for Linux / Unix is much shorter:

1. Vim (of course)
2. Zsh
3. GNU Screen
4. w3m
5. Mutt

That’s about it.

Tuesdays are bass days and I had my third lesson last night. Now that I’m starting to learn more about music in general, I quite fancy getting another instrument (probably a keyboard) so that I can play around with it and find out how it all works. I’m finding scales a lot more interesting than I thought I would.

I recently signed up for a Ringo account so that I could see some of a cousin’s holiday snaps (and very nice they are, too). Ringo offer a facility (as so many websites do, these days) to see who else in my address-book has an account. It turns out that lots of people did (am I the last person on the planet to hear of this site?). Being a nosey bugger, I pressed the buttons needed to ask my friends if I could see their photos (and they mine) and had lots of (positive) responses back within minutes (presumably because you are all nosey buggers and wanted to see my photos). Amusingly, none of my friends who were on Ringo before me have uploaded any photographs whatsoever, which is fair enough because neither have I (except the standard profile one)! I think I shall be sticking with Flickr for the foreseeable future.