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The American Antiquarian Society has put up a piece about the upcoming book The Gentleman in the Purple Waistcoat, an investigation into the murder in 1849 of Dr. George Parkman. Before the development of CSI-emulated forensics, it took only six months to decide Harvard Professor John W. Webster did it, should be arrested, and would die by hanging.

The “vignette” written by the AAS is really interesting reading. The book is apparently going to introduce plenty of reasonable doubt about the guilt of Professor Webster.

I’m happy with my Dell Dimension C521 running Kubuntu, and now that I can write to the NTFS partition I can rip all kinds of CDs (NTFS is good for something). Four tops, no problem. India.Arie, Jill Scott, no ploblem. Lars Winnerbäck, Mel Tormé, Moby, Pete Fountain, Sublime, easy. Eagles, Nirvana, buzz! Out of a whim I try in on the old Quantex PII, was zen before the tree, no problem! I even tried it on the Dell at ×2. What does the old PII have that the AMD64 don’t?