What I approve of and am thankful for..

• FreeBSD hands out the cpu cycles.
• GNU Emacs (not XEmacs) gets to edit everything in sight, while it watches over:
  • Red September Gnus 5.3 with a slice of lemon, reading my mail and news; though I used strn to wade through large volume groups or thread-hells. Good gnus and bad gnus. As Newsview evolves I will eventually switch to it. Have a look at a geeky screendump if you want. Tree display in Gnus? No thanks..
  • Mailcrypt, wrapping and unwrapping mail;
  • BBDB, taking down addresses;
  • pSGML, to sometimes help me out to actually stick to the DTDs, but usually
  • html-helper-mode, which I use for the CURVE pages, which I shamefully admit manage with version control.
• LaTeX formats my text in a decent manner when for once I can use it because no wp- and word-addicts are involved in writing it.
• I was lost after my adventures beyond the ultra world of Bowman which gave me that cosey, homely desktop feeling and a clear and clean interface. Looking for yet another window manager. AfterStep? No, thanks. But now, I'm back on track with WM2. Who needs a quit option? Just kill the X server.
• XmCD keeps track of my cds as well as being a compact and complete controller for my usually jobless cdrom player.
• Nepschaap (ofcourse.. it's big, it's buggy but it's mindless FUN!)
• and lots of others... ImageMagick, Assorted X contribs,

All of this joins hands on Lush by the way..

Why lush, you ask? Well really because I didn't think of a better alternative before stumbling upon this name. The ``colourful'' name kind of covers up the bland reality: ugly gray big tower case, stowed away under a desk.
I do like the band as well, allright..? <grin>

It doesn't mind being touched, when it's connected through a tunnel on AlterEgo, but do keep in mind we'll be sharing the same 14k4 modem..