Well, I didn’t end up losing much data at all. Only my iTunes Library file was corrupted beyond repair, and iPodRip is rebuilding that from the contents of my iPod as I type this. I ended up getting a new 100GB Seagate drive from CompUSA on Friday night. Their service plan would have covered a […]
Lately, my Powerbook has been very sluggish. Till now, I’d attributed its frequent SPsOD to my lack of hard drive space (sometimes under a gigabyte). But this morning when I plugged my Powerbook in and woke it up, it was way to slow and choppy to use. Restarting had helped before, so I did a […]
Giles Turnbull on the O’Reilly network has an article about Living in text files. I’m going to try it. You put all your data in one big text file, and then use your text editor’s search command to find what you’re looking for. Your To Do list, your bills, things to blog, contacts, notes on […]
Paulo linked to AutoStitch, a technology demo of a revolutionary new automatic photo stiching system. I thought I’d try it out with some photos I’d taken a while ago of my apartment interior. You can see the results here: JPG version, QTVR version.
When I lived with my parents in Maryland, I tried my hand at operating my own web design business, Oak Lawn Design, after the torrent of oak leaves that fall every year from the ~50 trees on my parents’ 9/10ths of an acre. I set up a website, got a business phone line, a toll […]
I’m still getting used to the fact that in South Carolina you can buy any kind of beer or wine in your local supermarket. It’s even easier to find than the milk. In Pennsylvania, it’s illegal to sell such things in a grocery or convenience store, or anywhere that’s not a state-owned liquor store. Here, […]
After a month of living on my own again, not driving home every weekend, several things become obvious: Dishes don’t do themselves. Sure, the cupboard and silverware tray last for a few days, but then you run out, and you default to a secondary, more relaxed mode of living, wherein making coffee requires you to […]
Free wi-fi in the Greenville-Spartanburg airport terminal .. nice!
Tomorrow I move. I’m not ready. There’s a stack of boxes in the corner of my office, and a bunch of half-packed ones littering the floor. Empty bookshelves line the hall, and I’ve been madly going through the archives of my childhood. I found two of my old juggling rings (in two different rooms), some […]
I finally saw Napoleon Dynamite the other night. Well on it’s way to becoming one of the most successful indie films ever, it’s a movie about this frizzy-haired dude named Napoleon and his sadly dysfunctional family. At first glimpse, this movie looks like an insensitive comedy about people whom society would brand Losers. People who […]
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