And so we present to you some simple lesbian fluff. I hope you find it palatable on this finest of Fridays. If you don't...well, you're obviously a homicidal maniac in the making who probably tortures kittens with car batteries. You utter bastard.

Having wrestled for two hours night before last to first move my music collection back on to my computer, secondly to get iTunes to recognize where that music was located, and finally to sync said music collection with the contents of my iPod, I believe I am in a studied and safe position to make this simple statement: DRM sucks donkey dick. The big, floppy kind.

If I have paid ten dollars for an album, I should have to jump through no further hoops to enjoy said album. More and more folk are realizing this, and the music community at large has responded with generalized agreement. iTunes now offers DRM-free versions of its music, and already-purchased songs have their DRM-free versions available at a discounted price. But the many albums on my iPod remaining under the iron fist of Apple's draconian DRM proved to be something of a sticking point, not to mention the fact that iTunes and my iPod seemed to freak out because they hadn't met in so long. When all was said and done, though, I managed to convince them to make peace with each other, though it wasn't an easygoing process.

I'm rapidly reaching a point where my stance is basically, "Fuck Microsoft AND Apple. Ubuntu is the One True Way." I've gotten nothing but trouble from the two big players in the computing software arena recently. Windows is buggy and slow, Mac OS X is quick but candy-coated and shallow...only Ubuntu manages to strike a balance between "customizability" and "it just works" that feels proper to me. Something about Ubuntu feels instinctively right, and I've learned to listen to my instincts where I have developed them.

I strongly suspect that the machine spirit of my laptop is happier running Ubuntu than it ever was operating off of Windows. It certainly seems to run smoother and to behave itself better--for that alone I would prefer Ubuntu. Its fleetness of digital foot and overall attractive, coherent assembly/design just seal the deal.

Also, I would not have a tiny pixelated cat cavorting across the bottom of my screen were I running Windows right now. Just saying.