💻Grand Theft Auto ALL DAY. 💻Grand Theft Goddamned Auto 💻Played some WoW, then cancelled my account again. 💻Railroads while handing out candy 💻Bought and set up a huge external hard drive 💻Set up a new backup scheme for the new hard drive 💻progressed my laptop dev environment 💻Set up new super-simple budget 💻Bought, installed, troubleshot, played Phantasy Star Universe. 💻Seems my Mac is having drive problems... 💻World of Warcraft expansion 💻Took my iMac to the Apple Store... Repair time. 💻Played Burning Crusade... Nice! 💻World of Warcraft - Burning Crusade 💻Started making DVD for Touichi; restored corrupted iPod; reinstalled PSU 💻Tried to rescue Groupthink 💻Picked up my iMac. All better. 💻More work on iDVD project 💻More iDVD hackery... getting somewhere 💻Setup a new MySQL instance... 💻Read up on authenticating Apache to AD 💻Got Apache2 authenticating to Active Directory 💻Rearranged AirPort network 💻Home network redesign seems to have made the inexplicable connection dropout issue (with the new wireless base station in bridge mode) go away. Yay, but I hate voodoo. 💻Working and various messing around 💻Bang Howdy. Play this game! 💻Work was nuts! Broken stuff everywhere. Better now. 💻Called Apple store. iMac ready tomorrow. 💻sitting at the reference desk, feeling like crap 💻starting five weeks thing on flickr! 💻Screwing around on the MacBook 💻MacBook is back!! New screen!!¬°¬° 💻Signed up for this bow-kay thingy. 💻Got the Ragesteel plate set plans. Woot. 💻Funny article about vampire multiplication and math 💻Finally gave Peter my old B&W G3 💻I quit reading JoT. It‘s just not funny 💻Messed about on the Mac a lot 💻Cooking at 358; Fishing at 175 💻Ragesteel helm and gloves, Felsteel helm 💻Reorganized huge hard drive, hdiutil+python FTW 💻Contemplating finally getting a domain 💻Decided I want to play Magic again 💻Magic online. Getting boring. 💻Font hack! I am very proud of this technique. 💻UT2K4; owned blue team at CTF 💻Updated Billie‘s still-on-dialup computer by downloading software updates to my computer over my own connection, then took my computer over there, then local-network-copied them to her computer, than ran them. Easy. 💻browsing and seeking for new things on my del.icio.us network 💻Installed 500g drive on my computer. Yum. 💻Consoling a friend via email about a job in my library that she applied for but didn‘t get. Boo. 💻Starcraft. The first one. 💻Screwed around trying to get PSX emulators working 💻Upgraded music server to latest stable version. 💻Upgraded wiki to latest stable version. 💻Screwed around trying to get online check deposits working; Windows is H E C K 💻Dug up SimCity 4. What a great game. Makes the laptop run a touch hot, though. 💻Brought MacBook in for his fourth repair :( 💻Starcraft with Taylor. Lost. A lot. 💻Running Safari on my Windows box at work. That‘s weird. 💻Brought MacBook in for his fifth Genius Bar visit and fourth screen :( 💻Got my MacBook back! Again!! 💻Took my damb MacBook in for the fifth time; got really, really upset and gave up 💻Lots of screwing about with LiveJournal and Vox; I think I am going to have to stick with Vox 💻Obsessively reading about iPhone 💻Genius Bar; they gave me a brand new iPhone and MacBook!!! 💻Reinstalled Photoshop, set up FileVault, restored music library, miscellaneous moving-to-new-Mac procedures 💻Got Optima and Zapfino (and probably other typefaces) working on my system again. 💻World of Warcraft: Deadmines with Sarah 💻Backed up everything, reformatted, installed Mac OS, restored everything, installed Windows, set up SVN and Python 💻Integrated my first diary, from 1992-1995, into Journler 💻Stayed up all night messing around with geeky 2D culture stuff online 💻Wasted hours troubleshooting piece of crap HP printer 💻Tried to force HP crap printer to print envelopes; ended up addressing 12 envelopes by hand like some kind of cave man 💻Did my occasional obsessive search for ways to watch Japanese TV in the USA 💻Dumped lots of old writing into Journler 💻Incorporated more old journals into Journler; realized that I have ~1100 pages of handwritten stuff 💻Got the rest of old journal entries into Journler; now just need to date them 💻Played around on the Mac a lot; tried out iLife ‘08; merged my old photos into Events :D 💻Dated 2 notebooks worth of entries in Journler, iSquinted some TV shows for iPhone 💻attempting to play R6:Vegas 💻Filled out the Mana-Khemia survey instead of getting things done 💻Downloading Images into Lightroom 💻Unreal Tournament 2004 with Ross 💻Procurando o pr√≥ximo hype... 💻reconsidering my current system of e-mail management 💻Unreal Tournament 2004 with Ross 💻Trackmania United with Ross 💻Rainbow Six: Vegas with Ross 💻Unreal Tournament 2004 with Ross 💻Seattle Public Library for googmaps to eveningvenue 💻Obsessively read all of Basic Instructions 💻Wikidiving and talking to Dave about Eva 💻Webbin‘ it, yo. Evil cats... 💻Productvity Software Roundup 💻Tried to play Ar tonelico 2 through DV bridge. Too laggy. 💻Lots of aimless messing around on the MacBook 💻The \"one to three day\" Macbook repair took less than three hours. Apple Store for the win. 💻The Genius Bar fixed my MacBook in a matter of hours! 💻Lots of screwing around getting stuff back in order 💻Catching up with what I‘m supposed to be doing 💻Time Machine started up and workin‘ great. 💻Laptop ‚Üí 2GB, but broke one of the latches that seat the chips. So far so good.... 💻Meghan‘s laptop ‚Üí 2GB; hard drive ‚Üí 120GB. Did you know you can recreate user accounts from a Time Machine backup? 💻Server RAM ‚Üí 896MB, a rarely-seen amount. Exact RAM configuration left as an exercise for the reader. 💻Turned the old laptop hard drive into a cute little USB drive. 💻Took Meghan‘s laptop back to the Genius Bar for a flickering backlight. Got it back while they wait for parts. 💻Performed powerful voodoo to upgrade the server to Leopard. 💻Swapped computers with Sarah. Migration Assistant on OS X is amazing. 💻General messing around on the Mac 💻Joined Jott, caught up with my bouquet, miscellaneous Mac stuffs 💻Signed up for Jott. Not quite \"discoverable\" (e.g. like good Apple software -- though I‘m not sure how Jott could do that), but definitely deeper than your first impression. 💻It‘s hard to describe why, but I think SmallWorld is the next big thing. I can send invites, let me know if you want one. 💻Deactivated facebook account!!!!! 💻Got Jott talking to OmniFocus, so I can leave todo notes to myself via cell phone. Amazing. 💻Being an Apple fan means getting excited when your MacBook Air order status changes from \"prepared for shipping\" to \"not yet shipped\" 💻MacBook Air status changed back to \"Prepared for Shipment\"! Maybe it means something this time!! 💻Air is in transit from Shanghai! 💻Migrated my data to the MacBook Air and the lady‘s data to the MacBook Ordinary 💻Lots and lots of shuffling data around between Macs and the external drive I thought was dying. Taking it out from under the Mac mini made it work just fine. 💻Got our four Macs into a pretty good state 💻Tons of screwing around with various versions of iMovie on various Macs 💻Lots of iMovie and iDVD work 💻Helping with seamless patterns in Illustrator 💻Brought the lady‘s MacBook to the Genius Bar; spent some time setting up a new account for her 💻Helped the lady with some computery stuff 💻Moved the computer to the new bookshelf; need to drill holes in the back for cords, so they‘re dangling in front in the meantime. 💻Found an apparent bug with Leopard, screen sharing, and fast user switching, which I think means I have to haul the big old CRT out of the cellar. 💻Got iCal publishing set up again after the Leopard upgrade. Next step: replace that with a CalDav server. 💻Maybe finally got Time Machine working over AirPort again? I think? 💻Messing around on YouTube 💻Meghan‘s computer was declared a lemon, so swapped out the added RAM and hard drive in preparation for tomorrow‘s trade. 💻Meghan‘s new MacBook is better than her old one in all respects, and better than my MacBook Pro in most. 💻Lots of rummaging around the internet for suitable ways to keep up with my geeky hobbies 💻Tried all day to install Windows 💻Gave up on trying to emulate PlayStation; Windows isn‘t worth it 💻Replaced my computer‘s network card (802.11g to 802.11n) and hard drive. 💻Finally got the music server working, for real this time, as long as nobody looks at it too hard. 💻Wireless backup victory! I now have a sluggish network connection! (722MB of 39.3GB, and counting.) 💻Wireless backup victory part 2 (Meghan‘s computer). 💻Almost two years ago, I made a configuration decision that I thought was subtly elegant. Turns out it was subtly wrong; I just found and eliminated a silent 403 error. 💻Set up Time Machine for the lady 💻Installed and ran a virus checker for the first time in over two years of owning this computer, for no compelling reason other than to be ahead of the curve when a virus actually shows up. I love OS X. 💻Just realized it‘s been years -- literally -- since I visited Slashdot, and I don‘t miss it a bit. 💻Repair to Automator reminder workflow 💻Upgraded the Flickr export plugin to fix an annoying bug. 💻Brought hard drive full of software updates over to the island to patch mother-in-law‘s dialup-only computer. 💻Chapter 1 of Cocoa Fundamentals Guide 💻Half of chapter 2 of Cocoa fundamentals 💻Chapter 2 of Cocoa Fundamentals 💻Half of Cocoa Fundamentals Chapter 3 💻Chapter 4 of Cocoa Fundamentals. A surprising amount of typos. 💻Received solar laptop charger 💻Half of Chapter 5 of Cocoa Fundamentals 💻Set up high school reunion website 💻Chapter 5 of Cocoa Fundamentals 💻Set up SMF (Small Machines Forum\" for reunion 💻Appendix A of Cocoa Fundamentals 💻Finished Cocoa Fundamentals Guide 💻When did Google Maps start doing the cool thing with the pictures of certain steps? 💻iPhone OS Programming Guide, Chapter 1 💻iPhone OS Programming Guide, half of chapter 3 and a lot of playing with the sdk. 💻Trying Delicious Library 2, which I have more mixed feelings about than any other app. I haven‘t even finished upgrading my library yet and I‘m already grumbling about the UI. 💻Downloaded Delicious Library 2 trial. 💻Hassles with rjr63.org ISP 💻Began effort for static IP and SSL 💻Changed primary domain from rjr63.com to rjr63.org 💻Purchased SSL Cert from GoDaddy 💻Probably spent three hours today backing up files and trying various things, irrationally hoping that my mac book pro will just start working again. 💻Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 1: Work through this until i have a functional intel mac 💻Close everything down. I‘m done. 💻Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 2: 💻RJR63.ORG gets static address 💻Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 3: 💻Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 4: 💻Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 5: I really like this book. 💻Helped Mom deal with a possible phishing email that was actually a legitimate, if overly-technical, request to change email settings. 💻Add several mailing lists to RJR63.org 💻Solicit two volunteers to track people down 💻Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 6 💻Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 7: 💻Cocoa Programming for OS X: Chapter 9 💻Accidentally blew away my System trying to install Snow Leopard, but recovery was pretty easy 💻Refresher reading on OpenSSL 💻Reported problem generating SSL certificate 💻Error in cPanel corrected 💻Installed SSL Certificate on RJR63.org 💻Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 11: Stuck on a part, posted on the forum for the book, and the author replied. That is pretty cool. 💻Lose track of where I am; need a plan 💻Jim gets ironcladfabricators.com 💻Trying to revive my alarmingly broken MacBook Air 💻Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 14 💻Failed to install XP in VMware Fusion. hmmm 💻Reinstalled Fusion and XP and IE6 IE7 💻Trying to get my backups in order. Fixed the corrupted only copy of the disk image that contains all of my journals since I was 10 years old. 💻Bought and set up a Time Capsule! Apple makes it wayyyy too easy to buy stuff in their store. 💻CPfMOSX: Chapter 20: Challenge problem 2 defeated me for a while. 💻Helped the lady with some webby stuff and Photoshoppy stuff 💻Macbook Pro HD decided to go blank. All. Data. Gone. Unable to repair. Repartition and reinstall and everything is fine. Wonderful. 💻Helped the lady with a bunch of compy tasks 💻Got another Mediawiki thing up and running. 💻Slowly forcing Mediawiki to bend to my will. 💻Helped lady with compy stuffs 💻Olympics online is amazing. All sport, no crap. Suck it, Costas. 💻Gamepedia is neat and the people who make it are nice. 💻Getting my collection into Bookpedia 💻More helping the lady do stuff 💻Tons of researching visual novels and comparing prices of import sites 💻Lady went to bed before me. It is weird to be home \"alone\". 💻Wikidiving and other distraction 💻Back at parents‘; winding down from C4 💻Created a Flickr account for the dude, so we can fave pictures for him, and so we can upload his pictures when he gets a camera for his birthday. 💻Tons of dumb timewasting internet browsing instead of reading „ÅƄņ„ÇÅ 💻Up late wasting time on compy 💻Caught up on a whole ton of web reading. Discarded most news articles from before mid-September, because, like, totally different era. 💻Got out of bed to work, then just wasted a bunch of time on compy 💻Downloaded a bunch of software updates for Meghan to install on her mom‘s dialup-only computer. 💻Put a bunch of stuff on Delicious that I‘ve been meaning to do for (in some cases) months. 💻Admin on rjr63.org‘s forum 💻Insomniac online obsessing over SMT games 💻I have been playing with Facebook actually 💻Resurrecting deleted baby footage with some success. 💻Working hard to get servers moved. 💻Came home and messed around on the computer a lot