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[robotech_master]

Well, I woke up earlier than usual, feeling oddly refreshed. So, not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I went ahead and got up, using the time to potter around on the 'net, and to watch the first episode of Farscape which I downloaded, courtesy of giFT. Neat thing, giFT...a home-brewed open-source reverse-engineered FastTrack. Doesn't work with KaZaa's own servers, of course, due to the nifty little authentication (which virtually guarantees FastTrack a swift death as soon as it stops moving around long enough to get sued--"There's no central index! We can't shut it down!" Ha ha ha, oh yes you can! Just stop authenticating everyone, and the network goes bye-bye.) but its own users can trade files among themselves. At the moment, there seem to be 258 of them on-line. Peanuts compared to KaZaa...but someday, when there's a pre-compiled Windows client available...then we'll see.

Slight frustrating thing o' the day: a bit of communication problems amongst the compassrose factions. Seems some members of the chancels aren't getting the discussion emails. However, demiurgent, keen fellow that he is, has volunteered to host mailing lists. (So, then, if folks still don't receive the messages, it becomes his problem! Yay! :)

Anyway, Farscape looks like a terrific show--sort of like Voyager, only with better writing, and muppets--and I just know I'm gonna enjoy watching it, episode by episode, as it crawls down the pipe to me.

Won't be long now before I have to go shave, and pull the work clothes on, and get ready to go for another bone-breaking 8-hour shift. I really should have tried to get back to sleep, I suppose...but something tells me there won't be any problem of that tonight. And maybe when I get back I'll find some nice compassrose emails waiting for me...