I was looking at a life uncommon and noticed a link for ‘The Pod’. Well, my curiousity got the better of me and I followed the link. I WANT THIS. I’ve been thinking about getting a little tripod for my camera, but this looks so much more handy!

Tomorrow is the first of the month. Remember to say ‘Rabbit Rabbit’ first thing when you wake up.

(Thanks to the wonderful show Fruits Basket for reminding me of it. (The episode I just watched had a bunny rabbit in it)).

Well, I had to reinstall OS X today. I’m a little cranky about it, but it is something that is fixable at least. There is a hardware problem with my dvd drive that makes it so that sometimes CDs put into it won’t mount. Instead just a loud humming/buzzing noise comes from the drive. I called AppleCare and they said I should be able to go into an Apple Store and just have it replaced there. This was quite good news.

The bad news was that my system had wedged with a drive in it and I had to powercycle. In doing that something on disk was corrupted. So, I had to first repair the disk, then copy off the files I wanted to keep (thank god for firewire) and then reinstall. As far as I can tell, I haven’t lost any data, which is pretty damn cool.

Also, I am so sold on firewire right now. It is so easy to boot from a firewire device (disk or cd-rom drive) at boot time. Windows doesn’t really have anything close to this. If I had been on a windows system I would have been screwed. Maybe not completely, but the amount of effort it took for me to fix things was much less then it would have been under a PC.

A big thanks goes out to the cool guy at AppleCare who sat on the phone with me for over an hour.

Sometime my TiVo records the scariest things for me. I woke up to find it recording Message from Space. I’ve been watching as I get ready to get some coffee and I have no given it three thumbs down, so that the TiVo never ever records it again.

On the plus side, it recorded Queen Emeraldas right before that. Even if it is dubbed it’s getting something right. 🙂

Euripides. “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”

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Well this bites. I woke up again in the middle of the night. Seems to be becoming a habit again. On a plus note. The weather yesterday was beautiful.

I remember when Yahoo! first came online. It was a cool place to look online for stuff. Having a directory by subject made it a little easier to find stuff then searching around randomly. In a kind of slimey move they reset everyone’s marketing settings to Yes. I read about it over on CNET and various blogs. I quickly went to their site and checked out my account (I have one for yahoogroups). Sure enough, everything set to yes. Bah.

Unknown. “Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.”

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Why can’t developers take into account users who choose to protect their networks with firewalls or NAT? At the corporate level it’s difficult to get large blocks of IPs. You’re almost expected to use NAT by many ISPs. Unless you go through a long annoying process of requesting more and showing why those boxes need individual IP numbers.

Albert Einstein. “The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”

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