Happy....

-- Anniversary to my parents! 52 years and counting!

-- Birthday to Silver Adept! Not 52 years but still counting!


Fireworks on your birthday and anniversary would be cool if you lived in cooler climes. It'll probably be in the high 80's here by the time it's dark enough for them to be lit off. I spoke with my parents earlier and it's 110f in Phoenix right now. WHEEE!

Looks like Apple flubbed an OS-X update

It takes your OS to 10.4.10 and has some lovely side-effects! Things like kernel panics, your wireless not working reliably if you use WEP or WPA, weird noise coming from the speakers when playing music. I had some strangeness this AM when Firefox would just spontaneously crash. I would by trying to open my Yahoo mail, and *BOOM*. Same thing with the Camino browser, which is a Mac-specific Mozilla project. Safari seemed unaffected. So I went and checked OS updates, and they had an audio update, and since one of the symptoms of problems with the 10.4.10 patch was audio-related, it seemed prudent to install it (reboot required). Thus far, I haven't had any browser crashes, and the network connection with WPA seems stable, so this might be a good fix.

But if you don't need the 10.4.10 update, I wouldn't install it. I didn't know when I did it that it had just been released that day, it just happened to be the day that I checked updates.

Here's to hoping it fixes the network problem!

I was going to write about the Scooter Libby pardon...

but what's the point? Bush commuted his sentence much faster than I expected, but really, who didn't expect this? Libby took one for the team and took the heat that otherwise would probably have been applied to Rove or Cheney, but that's pure supposition on my part. I just wonder if Bush will do a full pardon when he leaves office (preferably with kicking and screaming and pitchforks and torches). :-)

John Kovalic posted a wonderful Onion link: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30624. Definitely true, the administration has worn down the outrage of the American public to the point that they can do anything that they want to.

I HAVE TOONAGE!

That's moozik, not animation. Though I do have a copy of Roger Rabbit on DVD here waiting for me to watch it.


Today I finally hooked up my B stereo system: 15+ year old Technics receiver, Bose 301 series IV speakers, and my ThinkPad as an MP3 player! Now I just have to pick up a pair of AAAs for the remote control.

Hopefully I'll have a TV in a month or two, then I can hook up my laserdisc player! Tampopo and Star Trek Animated series, here I come! (assuming my player is still working)