The Christian conservatives of USA recently had one of their echo chambers of retarded thinking taking place in Washington.

BBC reports of a great fear – the direction where Mr. Obama is leading the country:

From the podium, Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor stoked the audience’s fears with a joke about a man who goes to sleep in America and wakes up, after a year of Obama, to find himself living in Sweden.

To many foreign ears, the thought of waking up in Sweden might seem rather appealing, but to this fiercely patriotic crowd it would not have made much difference if Mr Cantor had substituted Sweden for North Korea.

According to this article, executives travelling to China are advised to buy a separate mobile phone to be used only in China. This is to avoid spying and to work around corporate espionage.

The timing of the article is to create media noise for the upcoming (?) . Howeeeeeever, that’s not the most interesting part of that article. This is:

Mark Bregman, chief technology officer at security firm Symantec said he left his MacBook Pro behind in the US and took his MacBook Air whenever he flew to China. Bregman said he only ever used the Air in China and re-imaged the machine every time he returned home.

Interesting? Very much so: the CTO of one of the biggest providers of anti-virus/security products for Windows doesn’t even use Windows himself! He uses an Apple MacBook. That tells you something, doesn’t it?

The barber of Sevilla, as reformulated by Russell, as reformulated by Wikipedia:

Suppose there is a town with just one male barber; and that every man in the town keeps himself clean-shaven: some by shaving themselves, some by attending the barber. It seems reasonable to imagine that the barber obeys the following rule: He shaves all and only those men in town who do not shave themselves.

Under this scenario, we can ask the following question: Does the barber shave himself?

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Zenburn v2.5 is released!

Changes: support for coloring Ignore-groups (thanks to John Gabriele). The Ignore-group coloring is toggleable, see the file for details.

Grab it from vim.sf.net or from the official Zenburn page.

In practice, the Vim help files will change from this (click pictures to show them bigger):

to this: