I made it to the gym two days in a row. Excellent. This time around it was the treadmill on intervals for 25 minutes. I also walked my commute today, for another 20-25 odd minutes of exercise. On the downside, I had coffee and a brownie for lunch, but you have to pick your battles.

The soundtrack to my exercise life was provided by the second half of Random Signal #61 - Can Voldemort Stop the Rock? and Wicked Good Podcast #63: The Kids Meals Come With a Body Bag (apparently #64 wasn't available when I synced my iPod last night.

Matt Asay discusses the seemingly incongruous rise of the proprietary Mac in open source community. He makes a lot of good points, including the ability to quickly evoke terminal and run Unix apps while at the same time maintaining an attractive desktop interface, but I think this statement sums up why many have switched:

At a certain point, I just want something that works well.