I received the new Cranes album Particles & Waves per post today. It's really fantastic. I first saw the Cranes at a Cure concert in 1992 and I've been a fan since. It's the only band where I bought every CD plus some other stuff like singles. There are some audio samples available and the new CD can be bought at their shop. They're also touring Europe soon, and I intend to go to their concert in London.
Herbert Xu resigned from Debian today which is really sad. Most people are probably not even aware just what an amazing guy Herbert is. I've always been impressed by his energy and vigor to get every single bug on the kernel and his packages in general resolved. Herbert joined Debian long before I did, and when I thought of what defined Debian then he always came to my mind. It will surely take a while to get used to a Debian without him. :-( Fortunately, he'll keep hacking on free software.