Alias|Wavefront, the people responsible for the software behind the best Computer Generated special effects - have decided to release a free “learning version” of Maya. That’s right. Free. Gratis. No Charge. [Checks calendar - nope, it’s not April 1st] If you’re interested, you can check it out here.

I couldn’t believe it when I heard it. Their servers are a little bogged down with the demand right now, so have patience, and try again later if you can’t get it right away.

Wow.

Anyway, that kind of overshadows what I did all weekend, which was play with OpenBSD. I managed to get it installed, and running (in fact, you can look at Friday’s version of this page running on my own personal server right here.) I’m not really sure why I did it, but it was a lot of fun. Hardly any cursing at all. Honest. Ok, so there was some cursing about a missed hyphen in a configuration file that caused all network connectivity to fail, but other than that, there was no cursing. What, you don’t believe me? I promise to do less cursing when I work on my OpenBSD machine in the future.

Other than that though, Erin and I spent a pretty uneventful weekend, mostly just sitting around doing nothing. I spent altogether too much time working on the OpenBSD thing. I don’t think I even left the house all weekend.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Make way for Willy!” (Thump) “I told ye t’make way, din’t I?” - Willy