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I've been contemplating major computer alteration. At first, I was going to backup all data, scrap my OS, and install pure Ubuntu. Then I decided to try for dual-boot. If that failed, then I could always start over and go with just Ubuntu. And if it succeeded, then I would have the convenience of not being tied to Wine for my Windows-only programs ( Read more... )

Randall Patrick Munroe: ex-NASA contractor and world-famous webcomic writer. He is also the fixation of one Carl Wheeler, a far less well known blog writer.

Randall is best known for xkcd (a phonetically unpronouncable selection of letters and a reverse Fibonacci sequence if you take the Scrabble values), upon which he has worked full-time since ( Read more... )