I'm taking the plunge into the world of prelink. Kde seems to have become very unhappy, so I'm in windowmaker right now emerging kde 3.4 rc1. I wanted to play with it anyway, and hopefully recompiling all of kde (yeah it'll take all night easy) will fix my prelink problems. Prelink does seem to have sped up everything at least :)

Beyond that, I found a plugin for gaim to grab what's playing from xmms and insert it into text etc. I'm going to start using that in these posts, like so:
Bliss - http://fairlight.scene.org - - In Front of a Daydreamer