π»Grand Theft Auto ALL DAY. π»Grand Theft Goddamned Auto π»Played some WoW, then cancelled my account again. π»Railroads while handing out candy π»Bought and set up a huge external hard drive π»Set up a new backup scheme for the new hard drive π»progressed my laptop dev environment π»Set up new super-simple budget π»Bought, installed, troubleshot, played Phantasy Star Universe. π»Seems my Mac is having drive problems... π»Troubleshot JVHβs e-mail π»World of Warcraft expansion π»Took my iMac to the Apple Store... Repair time. π»Played Burning Crusade... Nice! π»World of Warcraft - Burning Crusade π»Started making DVD for Touichi; restored corrupted iPod; reinstalled PSU π»Tried to rescue Groupthink π»Picked up my iMac. All better. π»More work on iDVD project π»More iDVD hackery... getting somewhere π»Setup a new MySQL instance... π»Read up on authenticating Apache to AD π»Got Apache2 authenticating to Active Directory π»Rearranged AirPort network π»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. π»Working and various messing around π»Bang Howdy. Play this game! π»Work was nuts! Broken stuff everywhere. Better now. π»Called Apple store. iMac ready tomorrow. π»sitting at the reference desk, feeling like crap π»starting five weeks thing on flickr! π»Screwing around on the MacBook π»MacBook is back!! New screen!!¬°¬° π»Signed up for this bow-kay thingy. π»Got the Ragesteel plate set plans. Woot. π»Funny article about vampire multiplication and math π»Finally gave Peter my old B&W G3 π»I quit reading JoT. Itβs just not funny π»Messed about on the Mac a lot π»Cooking at 358; Fishing at 175 π»Ragesteel helm and gloves, Felsteel helm π»Reorganized huge hard drive, hdiutil+python FTW π»Contemplating finally getting a domain π»Decided I want to play Magic again π»Magic online. Getting boring. π»Font hack! I am very proud of this technique. π»UT2K4; owned blue team at CTF π»Updated Billieβs 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. π»browsing and seeking for new things on my del.icio.us network π»Installed 500g drive on my computer. Yum. π»Consoling a friend via email about a job in my library that she applied for but didnβt get. Boo. π»Starcraft. The first one. π»Screwed around trying to get PSX emulators working π»Upgraded music server to latest stable version. π»Upgraded wiki to latest stable version. π»Screwed around trying to get online check deposits working; Windows is H E C K π»Dug up SimCity 4. What a great game. Makes the laptop run a touch hot, though. π»Brought MacBook in for his fourth repair :( π»Starcraft with Taylor. Lost. A lot. π»Running Safari on my Windows box at work. Thatβs weird. π»Brought MacBook in for his fifth Genius Bar visit and fourth screen :( π»Got my MacBook back! Again!! π»Took my damb MacBook in for the fifth time; got really, really upset and gave up π»Lots of screwing about with LiveJournal and Vox; I think I am going to have to stick with Vox π»Obsessively reading about iPhone π»Genius Bar; they gave me a brand new iPhone and MacBook!!! π»Reinstalled Photoshop, set up FileVault, restored music library, miscellaneous moving-to-new-Mac procedures π»Got Optima and Zapfino (and probably other typefaces) working on my system again. π»World of Warcraft: Deadmines with Sarah π»Backed up everything, reformatted, installed Mac OS, restored everything, installed Windows, set up SVN and Python π»Integrated my first diary, from 1992-1995, into Journler π»Stayed up all night messing around with geeky 2D culture stuff online π»Wasted hours troubleshooting piece of crap HP printer π»Tried to force HP crap printer to print envelopes; ended up addressing 12 envelopes by hand like some kind of cave man π»Did my occasional obsessive search for ways to watch Japanese TV in the USA π»Dumped lots of old writing into Journler π»Incorporated more old journals into Journler; realized that I have ~1100 pages of handwritten stuff π»Got the rest of old journal entries into Journler; now just need to date them π»Played around on the Mac a lot; tried out iLife β08; merged my old photos into Events :D π»Dated 2 notebooks worth of entries in Journler, iSquinted some TV shows for iPhone π»attempting to play R6:Vegas π»Filled out the Mana-Khemia survey instead of getting things done π»Downloading Images into Lightroom π»Unreal Tournament 2004 with Ross π»Procurando o prββ₯ximo hype... π»reconsidering my current system of e-mail management π»Unreal Tournament 2004 with Ross π»Trackmania United with Ross π»Rainbow Six: Vegas with Ross π»Unreal Tournament 2004 with Ross π»Seattle Public Library for googmaps to eveningvenue π»Obsessively read all of Basic Instructions π»Wikidiving and talking to Dave about Eva π»Webbinβ it, yo. Evil cats... π»Productvity Software Roundup π»Tried to play Ar tonelico 2 through DV bridge. Too laggy. π»Lots of aimless messing around on the MacBook π»The \"one to three day\" Macbook repair took less than three hours. Apple Store for the win. π»The Genius Bar fixed my MacBook in a matter of hours! π»Lots of screwing around getting stuff back in order π»Catching up with what Iβm supposed to be doing π»Time Machine started up and workinβ great. π»Laptop βΓΓ 2GB, but broke one of the latches that seat the chips. So far so good.... π»Meghanβs laptop βΓΓ 2GB; hard drive βΓΓ 120GB. Did you know you can recreate user accounts from a Time Machine backup? π»Server RAM βΓΓ 896MB, a rarely-seen amount. Exact RAM configuration left as an exercise for the reader. π»Turned the old laptop hard drive into a cute little USB drive. π»Took Meghanβs laptop back to the Genius Bar for a flickering backlight. Got it back while they wait for parts. π»Performed powerful voodoo to upgrade the server to Leopard. π»Swapped computers with Sarah. Migration Assistant on OS X is amazing. π»General messing around on the Mac π»Joined Jott, caught up with my bouquet, miscellaneous Mac stuffs π»Signed up for Jott. Not quite \"discoverable\" (e.g. like good Apple software -- though Iβm not sure how Jott could do that), but definitely deeper than your first impression. π»Itβs hard to describe why, but I think SmallWorld is the next big thing. I can send invites, let me know if you want one. π»Deactivated facebook account!!!!! π»Got Jott talking to OmniFocus, so I can leave todo notes to myself via cell phone. Amazing. π»Being an Apple fan means getting excited when your MacBook Air order status changes from \"prepared for shipping\" to \"not yet shipped\" π»MacBook Air status changed back to \"Prepared for Shipment\"! Maybe it means something this time!! π»Air is in transit from Shanghai! π»Migrated my data to the MacBook Air and the ladyβs data to the MacBook Ordinary π»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. π»Got our four Macs into a pretty good state π»Tons of screwing around with various versions of iMovie on various Macs π»Lots of iMovie and iDVD work π»Helping with seamless patterns in Illustrator π»Brought the ladyβs MacBook to the Genius Bar; spent some time setting up a new account for her π»Helped the lady with some computery stuff π»Moved the computer to the new bookshelf; need to drill holes in the back for cords, so theyβre dangling in front in the meantime. π»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. π»Got iCal publishing set up again after the Leopard upgrade. Next step: replace that with a CalDav server. π»Maybe finally got Time Machine working over AirPort again? I think? π»Messing around on YouTube π»Meghanβs computer was declared a lemon, so swapped out the added RAM and hard drive in preparation for tomorrowβs trade. π»Meghanβs new MacBook is better than her old one in all respects, and better than my MacBook Pro in most. π»Lots of rummaging around the internet for suitable ways to keep up with my geeky hobbies π»Tried all day to install Windows π»Gave up on trying to emulate PlayStation; Windows isnβt worth it π»Replaced my computerβs network card (802.11g to 802.11n) and hard drive. π»Finally got the music server working, for real this time, as long as nobody looks at it too hard. π»Wireless backup victory! I now have a sluggish network connection! (722MB of 39.3GB, and counting.) π»Wireless backup victory part 2 (Meghanβs computer). π»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. π»Set up Time Machine for the lady π»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. π»Just realized itβs been years -- literally -- since I visited Slashdot, and I donβt miss it a bit. π»Repair to Automator reminder workflow π»Upgraded the Flickr export plugin to fix an annoying bug. π»Brought hard drive full of software updates over to the island to patch mother-in-lawβs dialup-only computer. π»Chapter 1 of Cocoa Fundamentals Guide π»Half of chapter 2 of Cocoa fundamentals π»Chapter 2 of Cocoa Fundamentals π»Half of Cocoa Fundamentals Chapter 3 π»Chapter 4 of Cocoa Fundamentals. A surprising amount of typos. π»Received solar laptop charger π»Half of Chapter 5 of Cocoa Fundamentals π»Set up high school reunion website π»Chapter 5 of Cocoa Fundamentals π»Set up SMF (Small Machines Forum\" for reunion π»Appendix A of Cocoa Fundamentals π»Finished Cocoa Fundamentals Guide π»When did Google Maps start doing the cool thing with the pictures of certain steps? π»iPhone OS Programming Guide, Chapter 1 π»iPhone OS Programming Guide, half of chapter 3 and a lot of playing with the sdk. π»Trying Delicious Library 2, which I have more mixed feelings about than any other app. I havenβt even finished upgrading my library yet and Iβm already grumbling about the UI. π»Downloaded Delicious Library 2 trial. π»Hassles with rjr63.org ISP π»Began effort for static IP and SSL π»Changed primary domain from rjr63.com to rjr63.org π»Purchased SSL Cert from GoDaddy π»Probably spent three hours today backing up files and trying various things, irrationally hoping that my mac book pro will just start working again. π»Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 1: Work through this until i have a functional intel mac π»Close everything down. Iβm done. π»Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 2: π»RJR63.ORG gets static address π»Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 3: π»Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 4: π»Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 5: I really like this book. π»Helped Mom deal with a possible phishing email that was actually a legitimate, if overly-technical, request to change email settings. π»Add several mailing lists to RJR63.org π»Solicit two volunteers to track people down π»Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 6 π»Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 7: π»Cocoa Programming for OS X: Chapter 9 π»Accidentally blew away my System trying to install Snow Leopard, but recovery was pretty easy π»Refresher reading on OpenSSL π»Reported problem generating SSL certificate π»Error in cPanel corrected π»Installed SSL Certificate on RJR63.org π»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. π»Lose track of where I am; need a plan π»Jim gets ironcladfabricators.com π»Trying to revive my alarmingly broken MacBook Air π»Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Chapter 14 π»Failed to install XP in VMware Fusion. hmmm π»Reinstalled Fusion and XP and IE6 IE7 π»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. π»Bought and set up a Time Capsule! Apple makes it wayyyy too easy to buy stuff in their store. π»CPfMOSX: Chapter 20: Challenge problem 2 defeated me for a while. π»Helped the lady with some webby stuff and Photoshoppy stuff π»Macbook Pro HD decided to go blank. All. Data. Gone. Unable to repair. Repartition and reinstall and everything is fine. Wonderful. π»Helped the lady with a bunch of compy tasks π»Got another Mediawiki thing up and running. π»Slowly forcing Mediawiki to bend to my will. π»Helped lady with compy stuffs π»Olympics online is amazing. All sport, no crap. Suck it, Costas. π»Gamepedia is neat and the people who make it are nice. π»Getting my collection into Bookpedia π»More helping the lady do stuff π»Tons of researching visual novels and comparing prices of import sites π»Lady went to bed before me. It is weird to be home \"alone\". π»Wikidiving and other distraction π»Back at parentsβ; winding down from C4 π»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. π»Tons of dumb timewasting internet browsing instead of reading βΓ
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