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I’m having trouble trying to,”I’m having trouble trying to sleep”. — Green Day”Insomnia won’t let me go.” — The Rentals”I can’t sleep tonight.” — The La’s”I’m so tired; I haven’t slept a wink.” — The Beatles”‘Cause I’m not sleeping.” — INXSI think my 4 1/2 year old beige G3/266 is finally dying. The ADB bus is completely flaked out. So that means a new computer for Jen may be in our future

but it will have to wait since we had to buy a furnace a few weeks ago and Christmas is coming. We’ll probably get an iBook. The new ones are sweet. We got one in at school and it’s very nice. And it comes with Jaguar. I wonder how Jen will take to OS X…

Curly died this week. Curly

Curly died this week.

Curly was the Mac OS 9 drive in my graphite G4 at work. I have three drives in it: Curly (OS 9), Larry (OS X 10.1.5), and Moe (OS X 10.2.2). That’s so I can run Network Assistant 3.5.2, Remote Desktop 1.0, and Remote Desktop 1.1 at need. It’s a nice setup.

But then Curly died. I tried as hard as I could, but I was unable to bring him back to life. So I replaced the now-defunct Quantum driver with a nice, shiny Seagate named (of course) Shemp.

(Now, if I really wanted to be true to the spirit of the stooges, I would have put in a cloned image of Curly and named it Joe, but that would have been a bit too weird. Besides, it would have died pretty quickly if history is any indication.)

Then today, I backed up Scooby, my PowerBook, and blew it away. A clean install of Jaguar later, I’m back in business. The only thing I forgot to restore before I left work is my games. Doh! But fortunately I carry my Tony Hawk Pro Skater CD in my computer bag, so I can re-install that if I need a fix.

Grace looked at a woman’s

Grace looked at a woman’s picture in the paper on Sunday and said, “Daddy, look at her. She’s so ugly!“

Now, I don’t talk like that, especially around her, so I said, “Gracie, that’s not a nice thing to say.”

She looked at the picture, then looked at me, then pointed to the picture. She said, “But, Daddy, she’s really ugly.”

Having a three year old is definitely an adventure.

Tonight I actually got to rock her and sing to her (selections included “Lullabye” by Ben Folds Five, “St. Judy’s Comet” by Paul Simon, and “Blackbird” by The Beatles). Haven’t done that for a long, long time.

Not that she actually fell asleep, mind you.

Step away from the TV,

Step away from the TV, and nobody gets brainwashed.

Why can’t we divide by zero? Here’s a good explanation.

“It’s just my luck that I’d miss those two days.” – PHB.

Dave’s laptop tanked yesterday. No amount of coaxing could get it to boot up again. So we threw a FireWire cable on it and backed up his Users folder to Moe on my trusty ole graphite G4 (Moe had more free space than either Larry or Curly). He re-installed Jaguar and now all is well again. He thinks QuickMail caused the crash. I tend to agree, but I haven’t ruled out Chimera yet. I’m sticking with Mozilla anyway.

By the way, I read an interesting blurb about the name Mozilla. The original browser was, as many are aware, Mosaic. Mozilla is short for Mosiac-killer.

Well, this is pretty freaking

Well, this is pretty freaking cool: updating your Radio weblog with .Mac. Of course, I don’t use Radio since I wrote a program to do everything I need it to do, and I don’t use .Mac because I can’t justify $100 a year for an email account and some web space (I mean, I administer a CommuniGate Pro box at work, I know how cheap email can be). But, just the same, this is very cool.

Wow, I haven’t been posting a for a while. I’ve been cranking away at HelpDesk 2, which is going to rock unbelievably. I’m doing all the work at home to avoid any conflict of interest. I’m learning more and more about REALbasic, object oriented programming (sometimes I learn a little bit too late, though), SQL, and PostgreSQL.

And now, James Milne of Essence Software has resurfaced after a long hibernation, only to give away SuperSocket for free, along with the code. And under a BSD-style license no less! And he’s continuing work on MozPlug, which makes me want to dance when I think about it.

Plus rumors that REALbasic 5 will support UDP Sockets. It’s all coming together.

Maybe Apple’s market share is

Maybe Apple’s market share is bigger than everyone says.

Vanity: My submission gets posted on MacSlash.

Here’s an unsettling tale. I guess we’re all supposed to rally around the guy looking at kiddie porn and feel sorry for him, but I don’t. You hurt kids, you pay. Even some of the most hardened criminals believe that.

Ten Rules of Common Sense Computing and Virus Defense.