Odds and ends about me:
Martial training history:
Couple of years of Tae Kwon Do
A few years of Olympic style wrestling
Several years of Shotokan (Sensei
Najib Amin)
A year of quankido
A smidge of tomiki Aikido, japanese Kendo, kenpo, and tai chi
Websites / links visited on a regular basis:
Slashdot ("News for Nerds",
technology biased news aggregation and commenting site, although
politically bent articles and comments are getting more time)
Kuro5hin ("technology and
culture, from the trenches", which doesn't quite live up to it anymore,
but is still occasionally informative / entertaining)
Get Fuzzy
(Man, cat, dog comic by Darby Conley. Nothing funnier than an
unkempt siamese with attitude and a muddled wrinkle-dog with their
owner)
TV Guide listings ('cause we have the TV on anyway, might as well point
it at something we'll like)
Slickdeals (nice site to
explore for random freebies, coupons, and nice deals on stuff from
various places online)
Userfriendly (another online
comic, based around the issues of being a tech goon)
CNN.com (it may not be as hardcore
news as it used to be, but at least it ain't Fox News or MSNBC)
Thinking
Machine 4 (pretty online chess applet, and a decent challenge, for
me at least)
Newegg (not every day, but some
good prices from a great source for tech)
WikiPedia (Online volunteer peer-reviewed encyclopedia)
Programs used on a daily basis:
Gaim (Unified instant
messenger, sign onto AIM, Yahoo, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu, and
Jabber with one step. Works well on Windows now, too)
Mozilla Firefox (Speedy and
-useful- web browsing)
VNC (remote desktop across all
platforms, in theory it's safer than Remote Desktop, but slower)
AVG Anti-virus (Free, and easy to
set up)
pan (Linux only
NNTP/Usenet newsreader)
evolution
(currently Linux-only e-mail client)
KDE and XFce4 (Windowsy desktop
environment/managers for Linux / X-Windows (Xorg))
CVS and Subversion (source control
software)
... on a less occasioned basis:
OpenOffice.org (Office suite
[word processor, spreadsheet, etc.])
iTunes (Multimedia player
from Apple that works well on Windows and can be tweaked for Linux)
DbVisualizer (very
useful "free" version, Java based SQL client and analysis tool)
GxMAME (front-end to MAME,
to play some of the older arcade games of the golden years when arcades
were still popping)
Bittorrent (swarm style
downloading agent, useful for larger files from various sites)
Virtual
Daemon Manager (image a game CD onto the hard drive, put it in a
safe place, and play the game when I feel like it instead of hunting
for the CD)
VLC (Multimedia player that will
play DVDs etc., when Windows Media Player won't. Stop the EU from
enacting software
patents!)
TortoiseCVS (Windows
explorer-shell client for CVS)