If anyone reads this blog it will be because I'm dead and someone was technically savvy enough to figure out that this exists.  medusa.brandylion.com resides on an internal web server, concocted as an assignment to learn both DNS and how quickly a web site can be organized.  Wordpress is pretty easy.  I might have to try SugarCRM which has to run in a virtual machine because it makes a lot of changes to a system that I think would break other services although I have no proof.  I aborted installing it after seeing what it wanted to do.  Now with virtual machines building a new system can be done on a lark -- without the need to physically unplug and plug-in hard drives.  Although this could be done with multi-boot systems, once data I didn't want to lose and hadn't backed up, I didn't trust an installer from not inadvertantly destroying a partition.  Perhaps I needed a NAS instead.  Still, you need to reboot the PC every time you want to switch.  Virtualization allows you to move things around and back up systems that work so you didn't have to rebuild them.  Anyway, what does this have to do with this being the first post?  I forgot what I wanted to say.  More later ....