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...Or at least the "Voice of God" is dead. Don LaFontaine, voice-over artist extraordinaire, passed Monday, September first.

"Thunder Throat" had quite the sense of humor about his job, willingly parodying himself in commercials and during interviews - in one of which he stated that at age thirteen he "opened his mouth and Orson Welles fell out."

Your voice will be missed, Don.

I finally got completely fed up with my computer speakers. So, I went out to the nearest place and picked up the cheapest set of 2.1 I could find.

I recently discovered a few options for inexpensive "thin client" or basic desktop Linux systems on the cheap.

It seems kind of odd to me that spam traffic as a whole for me is down considerably today compared to the rest of the week.

Have spammers decided to take the day off? Do they go to church or something? That would be odd, considering that spammers are generally considered to be the bastard spawn of Satan.

It seems that others have the same problems I do composing at the keyboard.

Fellow Baen Barfly Jasini took Sarah Hoyt's advice and picked up a used Alphasmart.

Man, I just hate those annoying little abuses of grammar in tv ads.

One of the biggest on my list is 'and it's guaranteed - or your money back!' Oh? What, pray tell, are you guaranteeing? If there's no guarantee info in the package, does that mean I get my money back? Come on, people.

The Linux-based Nokia 810.

I don't have anything to post about, but I have been catching up on a lot of webcomics lately. Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order.

Primarily, they're scifi or geek related.

• Freefall
• The Whiteboard
• Dork Tower
• Real Life
• Schlock Mercenary
• Sluggy Freelance
• User Friendly

Have fun!

I have a WatchGuard Firebox (the original model) that was picked up at a computer recycler after they were discontinued. They were special at the time for being an early corporate adopter of Linux.