I'm a fairly heavy user of job control in the shell. By which I mean one thing I do constantly is press control-z to suspend what I'm doing - reading a man page, editing a file, etc. - in order to run another command, and then use fg to resume.

Or: how I burned a day of my holiday break doing a peculiar kind of tedious computer maintenance.

I've decided to start a blog. Again, I guess. Once in a while, I get the urge to do this, and it hasn't stuck with me yet. I'm not sure this one will last either, because it's prompted more by the urge to play with some new software than the actual commitment to regularly write something.