My iPod, By-Tor, is officially a brick. Goodbye, music! Goodbye, cartoons! Hello, total reliance on the Shuffle and what music I've got on this laptop ( Read more... )

It's 30 degrees out. 30 is supposed to be the *high* on Friday. Fie on cold fronts. At least we're not buried in snow, but sweet Jesus, what a nasty change from Santa Cruz. I am hiding in the refuge of my electric blanket.

CodeCon was fun. I caught up with people I knew, met cool new people, and saw starofpersia at Writers with Drinks - I hadn't seen her in ( Read more... )

1. Erm, one of the feet fell off my iBook and I can't find it. I mean the little white (or grey, or dirty off-white) dots on the four corners of the underside, which cover up hidden seekrit screws. If anyone has access to an iBook they can chop for parts, or at least spare a foot from it, holla. Oh Shelley, you little cripple. I shall nickname you ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah! Yesterday it was sunny and warm, T-shirt weather; overnight it rained, so we've got ourselves a wet Christmas. daveeyb hosted a party at his place in Mountain View last night, so after the traditional Christmas Eve dinner at my uncle's place in San Jose, I headed to David's and got to see a number of bab5 friends, which was ( Read more... )

It took me 8.5 hours (with a break for In'n'Out and a great deal of waiting for installs to complete), but I stand triumphant: the iBook lives again, with a new HD from coderman and a fresh Tiger install courtesy of twid. I had so much fun. The PBFixit guide worked just dandy. I don't know what a T8 Torx screwdriver is, but a 5/64" hex key worked just as well ( Read more... )

After 4 years and 5 months of service, two continents, two DVD regions, a replaced battery, a replaced power adapter, a recently-replaced inverter board and cable, added-on memory, added-on Airport card, and an attempted theft, it appears my beloved iBook has finally died. I guess I can get the case back and put the spare laptop drive in there, and ( Read more... )

My laptop died peacefully in its sleep Tuesday night, after being slow and "swirly" recently (that's the technical Mac term), so on Wednesday I took it in for repairs. To a different place from last time, natch. "I've never seen *that* problem before" is probably not a good sign. I've been checking out replacement machines online and in the shops, ( Read more... )