Don’t worry, we’ll fix it in the mix!
Wow. Apple today released G4 iBooks. Talk about bang for the buck, the $1099 base model (12 inch) is better in all specs than my 5 month old $1299 mid line except for 100MHz in processor speed (probably made up for with G4 architecture) and HD size (30GB vs 40GB).
These puppies will boot in OS X only. I made a big deal about dual-boot being a must have in a portable when I ordered the iBook, and yet I don’t think I’ve booted into OS 9 once.
Once again John Gruber has done an excellent job providing “translation services” of corporate PR. This time in Closed Is Open he decodes The Microsoft’s Digital Music Service Q&A.
I’m getting lots of things done today. Both the gas and water company were here today to replace meters in the house. As luck would have it I was able to schedule both companies for the same day and time window. The Long Island Water Corporation gets a high geek rating for their meter installation, now a LIWC truck can merely drive by my house and “read” my water meter via RF. Keyspan will still need to send a technician to my house to read the gas meter at least one a year (to keep me honest).
While filing away paperwork today a small piece of paper dropped out of the AeroBed manual. Printed on it (in all caps of course) was the sentence: “IF CABLE DAMAGED, SHOULD BE REPLACED BY MANUFACTORY.” I’ve got to ask, does anyone at AeroBed Products International examine what is actually in the box with the product before it gets shipped?
James Spahr has some nice fall colored tiff files available for download that are well suited to Jaguar’s Desktop Picture feature. I have them set to change randomly every 5 seconds, the colors are repeated often enough so as not to cause “desktop-itis”.
Well, I couldn’t let another month go by without positing so here it goes, one month of highlighted activities in a few poorly formed paragraphs.
Mark’s party was the best one yet, saw lots of old friends and made a few new ones. I managed to catch the annual Forrest park Balloon Race. If you’re in St. Louis, the Central west end is a fun part of town.
Brazil was fun, I’d go back on vacation, but I would no’t live there (even though you could walk 100 feet on the beaches without running into a volleyball court). Note to Mark: Scheduling a vacation that soon after your party is not recommended for the future, neither one of our livers could handle that much abuse.
There’s lots of stuff going on in the background. I’m switching from Radio Userland to Movable Type weblog content management. If all goes well I should be be able to import the 600+ posts from the past 2 and a half years into MT and keep radio generated static pages in place (keeping linkrot and my personal insanity level at a minimum ). When the MT based blog starts it will be an all XHTML/CSS design.
Writing: I’m halfway fisted with an essay entitled “The Quark Problem”. I’ll publish it right here probably around the time I switch to Movable Type.
Reading: I started From Beirut To Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman. right before the Brazil trip, I’m halfway through and now I am just beginnig to get a slight idea of the issues in that region of the world. Up next is [Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson, I really can’t wait to start this tome, but it was released two days too late to make it on the Brazil trip (where I had plenty of time to kill while actual travel was taking place).