Fluxbox rocks. I switched over this morning and have been very pleased with it. Gnome was nice, but I prefer speed over features. Spent an hour hacking away at a theme (took the Results one and changed the colors and a few other things). The artwiz fonts are quite nice. I still need to get the slit apps to load at startup, but that shouldn’t be too hard (I think I can put them in my .Xclients or .xsession or something). I miss the good ol’ days of hacking around in my .xinitrc and configuring Window Maker by hand. No more desktop environments for me. I took a screenshot. Once I get the slit set up with whatever apps I end up using (probably Gkrellm and some Window Maker dockapps, and bbpager if I can get it to load properly), I’ll take another one. I need to get wvdial working with my Winmodem so that I won’t have to use kppp anymore…

Galeon’s tabs are extremely cool. I’ve been using Galeon for months now but haven’t really used the tabs at all until today. And now I’ll never go back. In the past I usually open new browser windows when moving from site to site (that way I can surf simultaneously and read one page while another is loading), but that eats up a lot of screen space. Tabs are much, much nicer.

I’m probably going to run to the BYU bookstore today to get some Thai tapes (Berlitz, most likely). Learning Thai is almost impossible without tapes or some other audio feedback, I’ve found. Sure, you can learn the script and vocab and all that, but with incorrect pronunciation it’s almost useless. There are 44 consonants in Thai, between 32 and 48 vowels (depending on who you ask), and five tones. It’s insane.

For some reason I’ve felt extremely busy these past few days. And yet I wonder if I really am. Hmm. There’s an overwhelming amount of information to study about Thailand and the Thai language and Buddhism; perhaps the size of that mountain is intimidating me. I’ll get over it.

I didn’t get that MStar job (they called), but that’s okay. Time to start looking again…