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It is not without a small sense of loss that I have put the RX-7 away for the coming winter months. This month the car turns 21 (Build date: 10/1984) and has 90,100 miles on it. Oddly, and without any premeditation today is also a historic day for motorsport. It is the second Chinese Grand Prix which is the last race in the Formula 1 season so we will have to wait until next year to once again get to enjoy the absolute peak of motorsport; however, most importantly it is the last time we will get to hear the sweet song of the 900+bhp, 18,000RPM, 3.0 litre V10 engines, which will be replaced by a new V8 package next year. It is also of note that next year, the 7 time FIA Formula 1 World Champion will no longer be wearing the number 1 on his car for what could be his last season. He wore the championship number for 199 Grand Prix starts in a row, and now will turn it over to the new, youngest-ever, world champion.

Thanks for a great year of racing, guys. Hope to see you all next year. And have a nice warm winter, my RX-7, next season won’t come soon enough.

I’m finally replacing hermes, it’s clearly time since the poor thing is falling apart. Since this is the second Dell Latitude in three years that has fallen to bits on me, I think it’s time to go with another manufacturer. I’ve picked up an IBM Thinkpad R40 2722-GAU laptop to take over as taker-of-my-abuse ;) I believe I’ll call it “Istari”.

In other news, I think I’ll be moving bdr01 (my border router / firewall) over to OpenBSD shortly. Linux has done well, but I think some of the features of OpenBSD’s pf will be quite useful.

More info on this as it unfolds.