Interesting weekend, even though (especially in contrast to the previous two weekends) I didn't really get out much.

Not too long ago at some dictator555-orchestrated event, new-to-town xartofnothingx offered to loan us some of her Google Ad-wrangling expertise. So Saturday afternoon we all sat down around 1 Volity Towers' fabulous oak conference table and I pressed the ( Read more... )

My old iBook, purchased mid-2001, continues to hold up pretty well... I am reminded of my many friends who still use their curvy black Pismo PowerBooks, a form factor even older than that. But I think I'll look into maxing out its RAM this week, since I can damn-straight claim that as a business expense. I actually just looked at how much it has ( Read more... )

My entire iBook seems morbidly broken, inside and out. Bits of the system seem to have forgotten who 'jmac' is, which is a bad sign. I foolishly tried cycling my login only to find... that I cannot log in to my own computer, now ( Read more... )

Finsihed reading the missing manual book last night, hiding out in the Shrine while Carla and the Carlas were GURPSing downstairs. She has found approximately one hundred new players for her Discworld compaign since I snuck out of it, successfully trolling from the Mostly Looney crowd and the people who played in her Vericon pick-up game. So that's ( Read more... )

I have been in and around the realm of IT support long enough to appreciate the miracle of PMFI. Well, the Problem, in this case, didn't really Magically Fix Itself; after making the previous cathartic post, I performed some intuitive experimentation, and saw that, aha, putting the iBook to sleep and then opening it partway made the screen happy, ( Read more... )

iBook is fucked again. The screen now thinks that the year is 2030 and it is a sheet of iPaper, working under reflective light only. I can just barely make out the stuff on the screen if I shine lots of light on it; otherwise it's dead black. An interesting effect ( Read more... )

I made a long todo list this morning, and checked off all but two items. Some of the stuff I put down are pain-in-kiester tasks I've been putting off for days or weeks, and I got everything done except one social email, and some artwork I wanna make for a local gaming splinter group's website, the creation of hosting of which I've taken charge. The ( Read more... )

Tonight Derek set my iBook up for wireless at Chez Coyote. Cool. Other than that, he spent the evening talking about nudity and making some mind-bogglingly good soup.

I didn't give (m)any presents, though I got some nice things. I'll be sneaking people appropriate payback as the year winds on, I suppoooose.

Accomplished a lot today, even though no outward progress was made. I'm sleepy, but if I don't write all this down now I'll regret it later. Warning: xtreme nerd kontent follows, until the So, after months of longing, my iBook is finally the programming powerhouse I've always wanted it to be: it has Apache running mod_perl, and the Gnome project's ( Read more... )

An upshot of losing access to my Linux box for awhile is that I find myself encouraged to explore the arcana of my iBook, which runs OS X -- the operating system one cohort describes as FreeBSD with plastic no-slip bathtub flowers slapped all over it. So it is UNIX, really, and it's happy enough to admit as much, and though the face it presents ( Read more... )