Feb 23, 2004
Miscellaneous
blizzards
I remember why I hate winter in the rest of the country. Wow. Talk about a blizzard…
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Feb 22, 2004
Random Funniness
Ever Wonder What the Degauss Button Does?
Sharpened.net: “Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.” Yup, it scares the bad magnetism out of your monitor. Makes sense to me. Now if only I could get a “turn into a 21” LCD screen” button for my ol...
Sep 16, 2003
Personal Life
baz, bar, foo
Beep is up and running. I’m typing this entry in on him right now. He’s rather a dog right now. I have a 256MB SODIMM from Sugar Daddy Mac that’s going into him in the near future, but it turns out that I need a phillips head screwdriver the size ...
Sep 13, 2003
Personal Life
augh - panic attack
I have been having a constant low-grade panic attack over Monday since I got the fateful call on Thursday. It’s getting to be a little overwhelming. Every time I think I have been able to just deal with what’s happening I remember the gravity of t...
Sep 13, 2003
iRooster
holy crap (again)!
So I just figured out why iRooster has been so damned popular since Thursday. Note the URL that this is from. Holy crap!
Sep 11, 2003
Personal Life
holy crap!
It never rains, it pours. iRooster appears to have been a featured download on apple.com today. I had several thousand downloads and as many purchases today as I did all last month. I ordered an ibook from smalldog. It is a stopgap until aluminu...
Sep 11, 2003
Technology
oh crap
It looks like my 15” Titanium Powerbook G4, Sugar Daddy Mac, age 21 months, passed away today. Needless to say, I am slightly less than thrilled about this. If anyone can offer some advice on this (i.e. perhaps it’s just mostly dead, to quote Bill...
Sep 10, 2003
Personal Life
Career Choices
I had an interesting day today. I re-realized that my co-workers absolutely love me for the simple reason that I do the work I’m expected to do. I don’t need supervision, I get stuff done on time, and it works. Apparently this is a big thing. The...
Sep 08, 2003
Personal Life
a rather productive day
I feel pretty damn good about the changes I made to iRooster today. I finally settled on a new design for the Alarm Editor (a picture of the old design is the link there). It’s a little bit more complex, but not too much. Also, this is rather unav...
Sep 06, 2003
Technology
error: does not compute
Is it just my imagination, or does this make absolutely no sense? pressherald.com: Benson’s program is a modest version of one begun by Maine last year. Maine gave laptops to 17,000 seventh-graders and 3,000 teachers in all the state’s public mid...