Month: October 2001

  • On a lighter note, I rode my bike to drop off the laptop at my local Authorized Service Center.

    To get from my house to the Authorized Service Center by car, you drive over the very steep and very busy Phinney ridge, and then drive around a lake. Return the same way.

    To get there on a bike, you have to climb Crown hill (which isn’t so steep) until you get to the point where the valley between Crown hill and Phinney ridge isn’t so steep, cut across, zoooooooom down the far side of the ridge, cross a very busy highway, go around the lake, do your business at the Authorized Service Center, go get a granita, ride the other way around the lake (cuz you sure as hell ain’t goin up where you zoooooomed down), climb the ridge at the other end where it’s not so steep, discover you have a flat rear tire half way up the ridge, and then walk the rest of the 20 extra blocks that you wouldn’t have had to walk if you’d just started out walking home.

  • Two weeks without my handy-dandy laptop… 3-5 days ‘to bench,’ a week or so in transit through Apple’s warranty system… I’m tied to the desk again.

    Kids, remember: Don’t get mad at computers.

  • It’s official. My iBook now hates me. I’d hate me, too, if someone had slammed my screen shut in a fit of frustration.

    I fear that MacXangaTools is history (along with a whole bunch of other work, as well).

    Listen now as the little hard drive inside it makes mouse scampering noises… Try in vain to boot off the system disk just so you can copy files over the network before they’re gone forever… Feel your heart rate rise… What a ride!

  • Copy Protection Robs The Future

    Here’s an interesting article I found via Hack The Planet: http://www.bricklin.com/robfuture.htm.

    The main idea here is that if someone had copy-protected the Rosetta Stone, we wouldn’t have nearly the historical understanding of ancient Egypt that document provided.

    Something to consider.

  • An ambitious project:

    ibelieveinpeace.org

  • Hey, look! It’s Seventh_of_Seven!

    And no, it’s not a Borg thing, it’s a ‘BLOG THING!


  • Well, no one asked for MacXangaTools, so it’s history. Maybe I’ll tell TheXangaTeam about it, and see what they think.

    But, in the meantime, emailed blogs I’ve made have been bounced around for days, so either something’s up at Xanga, or my premium trial period expired. Helas. The upshot is: Some rather untimely ‘blogs may suddenly appear out of nowhere on my site.

  • Look carefully at this photo.

    Compare/contrast with this.

  • MacXangaTools

    Well, it looks like MacXangaTools is at a place where I can give it to the world in a public-beta stage. If you’re interested in using it, and have a Carbon-capable system installed (8.6-10.x), then send me an email and we’ll work it out. Won’t it be depressing when no one asks?

    And yes, I’m sending this ‘blog with it.