Oh, iPad. I get the feeling you're a lot like the men I find myself attracted to: Nice to look at, fun to mess with; but there's probably a lot in the fundamentals left to be desired. And, were I a wiser woman, I'd steer clear until you've matured a bit.

But, honestly, I'm more likely to get drawn in on the love-at-first-sight wave ... and then ( Read more... )

Yes, I still exist in the blogosphere. I've been so out of spirits lately that I just haven't had the drive to fully express myself beyond the 140-character tweet. Nothing much to report, to be honest.

My home-based responsibilities are well taken care of (oddly enough) at the moment. Money things are finally, blessedly in order--and I'm ( Read more... )

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I love my Mac, but I'm finding it impossible to lug around everywhere without having major lower back pains when I'm trying to go to bed at night. Also, it's a distraction machine. I lug it along to write and blog, and I end up messing around with graphics and screen-caps instead.

So when kleogade mentioned the XO yesterday, I thought: How great would that ( Read more... )

After turning inside-out several bags and coat pockets yesterday I was left with a mess (that I still need to clean up but am avoiding by my being downstairs and its being upstairs)--and still no appearance of my driver's license. So I ordered a new one on the Massachusetts RMV website. Odd thing, being able to order a replacement license online. ( Read more... )

Last.fm is reminding me of all those songs and artists I want to re-download. As absurd as it is, when my laptop crashed a few years back, I lost some things that I never got around to downloading again. Similarly, when my iPod was destroyed a year ago by the mega-magnet in my wallet, I lost everything that had been salvaged from the memory of my ( Read more... )

My parents drove back to the Berkshires at 0530 this morning. I was awake, because my internal clock is all messed up and the light was coming in through the sky lights in a distracting and waking-up kind of way. So I spent the early morning organising my files and moving them to my external hard drive, and then updating my OS and setting up my ( Read more... )