Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.

Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.

I eat and drink at my desk, but I'm a tidy eater.

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

You can always affect things - so can you change it in a way that will make you as happy with it in the future as you were in the past? Maybe it won't be the same, but it might be something else you also like.

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today, maybe my next machine will run Linux.