i haven’t been writing here: partly because i don’t really have time to be writing, mostly because i feel guilty that if i have time to be writing here, then i have time to be tending to at least one or something of the multitude of items currently on my backburner.
so i’ll make this quasi short lest i wreck in my guilt.
tons of stuff has happened/is happening. we moved successfully. more on that later. now a second move is taking place. more on that later. Baby Blue Bytes, the definitely-well-loved but unfortunately-unwarrantied Toshiba Satellite 5205-s703 is dead on the operating table. when i have a bit of money and time, i shall see about resurrecting the dead. meanwhile, please welcome Danium, the Satellite M40. Dani is joined by:
- Sylvia, the 1600×1200 pixel replacement of BBB’s gorgeous 15” UXGA screen,
- Benny the hub and Benny’s identical twin,
- Hallow the 300 GB multimedia-storage unit (to counterpart Casey, the existing Maxtor One-touch),
- and last but not least (however the smallest package) we have Baby Brain, which was surgically removed from BBB and now lives in a very efficient little Bytecc external case and does its job surprisingly happily.
I have discovered Newegg, and I am pleased.
Also thoroughly broke.
okay, the rest pending.
i now have my new Sony MDR-Q66 headphones. retractable! cool! happy!
hope they don’t break.
Textdrive’s hosting for life offer is back as VC3.. This time around, the hefty percentage goes to Katrina relief, instead of open-source projects as usual. Read more on Dean’s post to the forum.
(via ubernostrum)
this is me testing RMail.
Qua-pack!
(i dunno.)
i’m hoping this may be useful for Textpattern in the vein of email subscriptions to articles (and comments) via their rss feeds.
long-awaited news: Textpattern 4.0 is a go (with a weblog that i swear wasn’t there a couple days ago…)
and Rob’s newest Textpattern plugin, rss_admin_db_manager v4.0 is out in the world, and is looking so very beautiful and works so very beautifully. i’ve gotten to play with it and it’s very very happy.
Apple’s Mighty Mouse that i saw in the Apple store today… really is making me consider, again, converting to an Apple…
oh, btw, Bluey’s “spine” pretty thoroughly broke today, so it can no longer hold up it’s beautiful 15” UXGA screen on its own. it folds almost all the way back (i’m certain if it continues to do so, the remaining holding plastic will also break and the monitor will be completely broken from the computer, which is really no good in laptop world), and otherwise would slam shut if leaning foward.. it can’t hold itself up at all. so sad. just happened kind of randomly today. it’s been weak for like a year now… after a certain angle, the monitor would just fall backwards. but it could still hold itself mostly up at the time. not anymore. :-/
i’ll have to figure something to deal with this tomorrow. quite urgent.
I finished Catcher in the Rye the other day… third time I’ve tried to read it. I know it popularly makes me a lacking person somehow, but I just really found the book uninteresting for myself. I mean… I can see what the general appeal must have been to land it as such a remarkable, notable, classroom-essential, teenage-student’s-favorite book.. but… well, maybe timing didn’t work out properly for me to read it and better identify with it.. “well clearly you’ve never been a typical American teenager.” well, .. maybe. or maybe Holden Caulfield just isn’t anything more than what he is to me. Does it matter if I don’t like him?
I liked his little sister.
For that matter, I don’t like Harry Potter or Clark Kent much either. might all of those not be so different?
But I love that this book (and character) means so, so much to so many people. I love that.
- Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 is out
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going to be trying the Calendar extension for Thunderbird- (standalone available as Sunbird). it’s no iCal, but such option not avail on Windows. *edit: going to standalone Sunbird 0.2 app instead of calendar extension, since that’s where they’re going to be focusing. more ideal for me anyway.. the current sunbird lacking features that only avail for calendar extension will likely be avail in sunbird soonish.
- upgraded various Thunderbird extensions and added a few more to collection, and will also do the same for Firefox
- Flickr Importr (thanks Angad)—far better than Flickr uploadr. now they just need to make more of the Flickr organizr tools available offline… adding multiple photos to Groups, for instance, is hellish.
So, by strong recommendation I was persuaded to check out this show that I don’t think I’ve ever heard of.. So I put it on, not knowing a thing about what it’s about.. and the show’s intro was very pleasant and pretty..
Four batches of chocolate chip cookies later…
started about half an hour before Alias (thanks for that marker) and just finished, so that’s about four hours of cookie-making?
A few people out there already know what happens if you ask me to suggest a couple of songs from my music collection…
I don’t really know how to suggest just a couple.
Hans obviously didn’t know this, though, so he very sweetly passed me a Musical Baton Meme thing.. mischievous grin cool.
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