Week 2 on the bike
Last week I loaned my car to Scott, so I have a great excuse to be on the bike for the past 7 days. The weather has been great. I need to ride it to work more often, I'm just lazy in the morning.
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December 29, 2003
December 27, 2003
Christmas iPhotos
December 21, 2003
Dad's Birthday at Scott's Appt
December 20, 2003
Perl is 16 - Happy Birthday
Larry Wall released Perl 1 on this day in 1987, so today Perl is 16 years old.
NAVAIR (PAX) is working on a flying saucer ... no joke
This is just further evidence that NAVAIR is starting to lose it.
Wired covering a project revived from Russia by the US Naval Air Systems Command: The Ekip, a pita-bread-shaped, stubby-winged, wheel-less, unmanned ship that weighs in at 500 pounds. 'For more than two decades, engineers at a former Soviet aerospace plant have been toiling on a drone aircraft that looks a whole lot like a prop from Plan 9 From Outer Space.'"
December 19, 2003
Mac Updates
Apple has put out some serious updates lately. Although Microsoft did get there security patched out this month, Apple managed up issue a security patch, and update iTunes, xCode, and others. Nice to get updates that fix legitimate security vulnerabilities, and at the same time get updates that add performance and functionality to software I already enjoy using.
Day off / Chirstmas Shopping
I making this post from panera bread company in Mandarin. Panera offers free wi fi. It's pretty awesome being online here in the coffee shop with my powerbook G4 and a cup of coffee. Now I'm wired and wireless. Maybe I should take my guys from work on a field trip. We all could work from here with wi fi over VPN.
I'm finishing up my Christmas shopping with a trip to compusa. Glad I took the day off.
December 18, 2003
It's a Charlie Brown Chirstmas.
Just browsing iTunes from bed and found A Charlie Brown Christmas. awesome
Be sure and check out Christmas time is here.
December 17, 2003
10.3.2 Panther Released
The 10.3.2 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" and is recommended for all users.
Key enhancements include:
- improved file sharing and directory services for mixed Mac and PC networks
- more robust printing to PostScript printers
- improved font management
- updated Mail and Address Book applications
- new ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers
- FileVault, FireWire 800, WebDAV and USB Printing improvements from Update 10.3.1
- previous standalone security updates
For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website
December 16, 2003
BSD style boot up in OS X
If you hold down apple and V when your Mac is booting up, you trigger verbose mode. It will look as if you're booting into Free BSD. If you miss any of that, type "dmesg" in the terminal, that will show you everything that was displayed at boot up. Here are the results.
December 14, 2003
Ready for Christmas
December 13, 2003
Exam Grades are in
I just got my grades in for the exams I took this past week. I did much better than I thought possible. My grades are going to be awesome for this semester. I now have 105 credit hours under my belt. 15 to go! I need to start buying FSU class of 2004 memorabilia.
Crunch time paid off.
December 12, 2003
Red Hot Chili Pepper's best of Album on iTMS
The Red Hot Chili Peppers greatest hits album has just been released on iTunes.
Looks like a pretty good mix. There are a several great best of albums out there (REM, Green Day, GBV, Counting Crows, Stone Temple Pilots, and Tori Amos). Guess this means I'm getting old
December 8, 2003
Crunch Time
This is a pretty big week. I'm taking my last final this afternoon. I will be 100 % done with this semester on Wednesday, and I'm really looking forward to it. That will bring me up to 105 credit hours, with only 15 to go! I should be graduated August 2004. That's about 6 1/2 years after I started at UNF in January of 1998. I don't feel too bad about that.
I'm going to work real hard this week, and then I'm going to take it easy for the rest of the year.
December 6, 2003
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 Released
Mozillazine.org reports:
"Following two release candidates, the 0.4 release of Mozilla Thunderbird is now available. Thunderbird 0.4 features an updated look to Thunderbird's default theme, including a variety of new icons; better OS integration, cut and paste of images on Windows, and a number of bug fixes and other new features."
December 5, 2003
Jerry Seinfeld
I'm going to see
Jerry Seinfeld at the TU Center tonight.