LOTD: blogdex
Those wacky folks at MIT Media Lab are at it again. This time with a system that crawls blogs looking for links and keeps track of what the most popular ones are for the last 24 hours. It is pretty interesting seeing a snapshot of what people are looking at.

Quick short anime review.
I’d caught about 5 episodes of The Irresponsible Captain Tylor on the International Channel and liked it enough to pick it up on DVD. The show is about this guy Tylor who joins the space force because he thinks, “It will be a nice relaxing life”. Hey, you get free food, free clothes, a nice easy desk job if you’re lucky. The guy is complete slacker. He ends up getting assigned to a space ship as captain. Though this ship has a problem. No captain has ever lived longer then three days. The crew has always ended up killing him. Will Tylor live? Well, as of the 5th episode he’s still alive. The show itself is hysterical. I find myself laughing out loud almost every episode so far.

On another note. I’m working on digging up more info on Mac OS X internals. Specificly stuff to do with netinfo. If anyone has any good sources on such things can you please drop me a line and let me know?

Ugs.
I’ve been working on documentation for the last few days and I’ve just been hitting blocks all the time. I just find myself staring at the screen blankly not really sure what to type next. I think I need to find something to distract me. Bejewelled helped for a small moment, but then I felt too guilty for playing it and went back to write. And now I’m starving, but it is too hot outside to go get food.

Bah

Time for a moment of geeky happiness!
I figured out how to set the hostname on an OS X box. (For those of you who’d like to know, it seems to come from a file called /etc/hostconfig. There’s a setting for hostname that is set to -AUTOMATIC- by default). This is one of my main gripes with OS X. While they have made a very usable unix for the desktop, they did do some kinda wacky things that just aren’t quite standard, and it confuses this old sysadmin.

Augh.

Curses to Nari for putting a link to Bejewelled on her blog. I thought I’d kicked my addiction to this game. Only to find out that I can now download it onto my computer!

Some of you might have noticed my page has changed a little.

I decided to learn more about CSS. It’s pretty cool and not too hard to learn, though I’m still not 100% sure that I’m using them correctly. Anyways, drop me a line and let me know what you think.

Nothing like being woken up with bad news.
The phone rang first thing this morning and it was Kendra. She sounded fairly upset and was saying something about Mike taking off after talking to Ray (that sketchy guy who says he’s helping us). I guess he went off to see if he could find out about that guy from the hotel. I’m pretty sure he’s just flipped out by now. Hopefully I’ll know more later.

There’s nothing quite like being able to sit out on your doorstep and be online.

Back when I got my TiBook I got a wireless card for it and set up a little wireless network. It’s been quite nice. I get to sit outside, watch people walk by and enjoy some fresh air. It also makes it much easier to sit and bed and be online. It is going to make life quite nice once I have my transplant. I’ll be able to be online from anywhere in my apartment. Right now I’m working on configuring fetchmail from my doorstep. I just think that is too cool. (I feel like such a geek sometimes).

I did some research and got the name of someone who was at the hotel the night they stormed Mike and Kendra’s room. I was a little tricky about it. I hope it doesn’t get me into trouble.