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I think there are probably some Mac geeks out there somewhere…
If you haven’t already seen this, you should totally check out Desktop Manager, an open-source virtual desktop manager for OS X. I have been wanting pretty much this exact software for just about three years now, ever since the arrival of my iMac. […]

So painful that it must be shared… Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. (1985)(Don’t believe what the thread says about a “Teen Beat” layout–it’s wrong. It still hurts to look at, though.)
While the photos burn my poor, poor eyes, it is […]

Well, poop.
Work is utterly irritating; there’s nothing quite like being ready to kill people from the moment I set foot in the office to the moment I leave. My present workload is quagmire-tastic at best, and violently uninteresting. Ugh.
Continued frustration on the computer front. I ran Memtest86 for about 24 hours and […]

If you use Apple’s Mail.app for your email, and you are in the process of switching accounts around (because, for example, Case disables your wife’s POP/IMAP access), do not under any circumstances remove the account from Mail!
It very cheerfully removes not only your login information and account settings (not so bad), it also whacks all […]

Alas, young iBookTaken quickly in winterWater makes you sad
Mourn the CD-driveThat’s lost its will to ejectSmooth jazz was thy doom
With great power comesGreat responsibility,Expensive mistakes
Sweet dreams of repairVoyage to the Apple StoreOur wish: get well soon

Mood:haiku-riffic
Music:the stillness of the office at Christmastime

I’m really quite annoyed with the Safari 1.0 “final” version that Apple released the other day. Safari has really come a long way, and had been growing into a decent and solid browser in its most recent betas. Heck, once it acquired tabs, it started to cross the line into being cool. […]

Recent occurrances, list-style:

Completed Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix late Sunday night.

Trying to recover from stupid, stupid Harry Potter (lack of) sleep schedule… uhhhhghghh…

My aunt and uncle came to visit on Sunday evening! They had been “passing through” and had a night to kill, so a visit worked out nicely. We […]

I haven’t posted in what seems like forever, which is partly due to how stupidly busy I’ve been at work lately. On one hand, I’m almost done with what I am stupidly busy with at the moment, but on the other hand, I am about to embark on even more strenuously busy endeavors. […]

Well, it’s not entirely the most perfect thing in the world, but as LiveJournal clients for Mac OS X go, Xjournal seems pretty sharp. Of course, it also helps that it reads my current music from iTunes (nice), and it’s made even nicer by the fact that I’m running Metallifizer from those cool guys […]

I moved the DeskJet to my side of the office, connected it to my iMac (which is on more often than anything on the other side of the room, and got printer sharing working with Liz’s Powerbook (which turned out to take no effort whatsoever, rather delightfully).
I tweaked some symbolic links on my iMac, and […]