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Towel day

Today is Towel Day, for Douglas Adams. So, break out your towels and ponder a bit about Life, The Universe, and Everything in general. [Hint, the answer may very well be 42].

Gizmo instead of Skype

After reinstalling my laptop from scratch with a Debian netinstall cd [the old harddrive died on me :(], I installed the Gizmo VOIP client. I think it's better than Skype; it uses the ALSA sound system, native GTK2 [so it actually looks good], and is based on the open standard SIP …