AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
Surely I have that Al Swearengen clip in here somewhere? Ah yes imperturbability. Which is the opposite of irritation, or its remedy.
The wonderful thing about hacking, that I don't think anyone has quite adequately conveyed – its working with very malleable stuff, so irritation can always be turned into action. Pretty much. Certainly I have enough freedom in my work, almost too much. Still software is very irritating, and in practice you can't actually change the software you interact with all that much, you don't have the time even if it was all open source, which it isn't.