Well, what did I expect

Two cavities, including one sharing the tooth that has my one filling. So much for my nigh-perfect ebay feedback. I mean dental record.

Then again, it would have been four cavities, had I waited only a little more than the four or five years it's been since my last checkup. With luck and lots of floss, I'm told I can steer clear of those, at least.

Why your cheering confuses me.

GWB has tapped Alberto "Torture is okey-dokey; these are enemy combatants, after all" Gonzales as Ashcroft's replacement.

UI misfeature OTD

IM clients that immediately give focus -- that is, active-window status -- to incoming messages' windows. I can tell when someone has a client that does this, because I see the "$PERSON is typing" status message (a.k.a. the 'thought balloon' in iChat) the instant I send my first IM, and I know I'm annoying them by making them waste keystrokes on me, which they'll have to erase and then retype into their previous window before turning their attention back to me. (And what if they didn't want to give any attention to me right then? Worse, what if they hit Return before realizing what happened (which is very easy to do), actually sending me some text intended for someone else? Argh!!)

iChat does things correctly, by popping up a window with visual and audio cues, but maintaining focus on whatever window currently owned it; you must click on the new IM window to do anything with it.

On the other hand, I have actually stopped using Psi as my everyday Jabber client because I can't figure out how to make it not do this, without turning off new-message alerts altogether (which I also don't want).