Fri, 30 July, 2004

Big HD for Old G3

Posted in General at 7 pm

So I’ve got $100 that I can spend at Amazon. Can anyone help me find the biggest HD that I can buy there that I can stuff into my old Blue and White G3?

I think she can handle the 80GB from Maxtor, but I dunno. I’m certain I want size, over speed in this case.

Added: It looks like 120 GB is the maximum for the B&WG3. And I’m lucky enough to have a Rev B motherboard which makes adding the additional drive much easier.

I guess what I’m really looking for is the best price per gigabyte. It looks like a 60 GB hard drive for about $45 comes to $0.75 per gig.

I’m looking for used and refurbs just as much as new-in-a-box…

(EDIT: I ended up getting the 60gb HD, which will give me plenty of room at a cheap price. I can use the rest of the funds on some other items… like say a Bluetooth adapter?)

Tue, 27 July, 2004

Gmail Invites

Posted in General at 6 pm

If anyone wanted a Gmail account, they let me know. It seems I had 3 invites at my disposal.

(I was surprised by the number of requests from Brazil!)

Clinton’s Speech at the DNC

Posted in General at 5 pm

From Newsday.com comes a transcript of Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. If you can find an audio recording of this, let me know, as it was really very good.

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Haircutting time

Posted in General at 7 am

I finally took the plunge and went from long hair:

Before the haircut...

to fuzz ball on Sunday:

...after the haircut

The braided hair ended up over 20″ inches in length.

Mon, 26 July, 2004

Research irreversibly damaged by Excel

Posted in General at 8 am

I have had this exact same problem over and over again in Excel: Genetic research irreversibly damaged by Excel autoformatting.

When you open a file in Excel, it automagically attempts to convert some numerical entries into Dates or Times. The Only way I’ve found to get around it is to open the file in a plain text editor, (if it is Tab delimited), Copy, open a new spreadsheet in Excel, select all of the cells in the sheet, tell them that they are all ‘text’ ahead of time using the formatting palette and then Paste the data into place.

Otherwise you get horrible horrible screwed up data. Another reason why I like I like Dumb software and hate software that tries to be ’smart’.

Sat, 24 July, 2004

Thermal Lockdown

Posted in General at 12 pm

WARNING: We are in Thermal lockdown. All windows are to be covered with non-conductive materials, backed with all drapes closed. To facilitate potential sleep patterns an air conditioner has been temporarily installed in the bedroom. As yesterday’s temperature exceeded 100° in Portland and other locations and today looks much the same, please restrict all CRT activity to the absolute minimum, use only fluorescent lights, and for for the sake of us all, don’t use the oven!

Clothing, however, is optional.

Walks to yard sales to purchase CD shelving units are allowed, before 1pm.

Fri, 23 July, 2004

Cold, Dead Hands

Posted in General at 2 pm

From: Crazy Apple Rumors Site: Newton Users To Receive Intervention.

After Tuesday’s announcement that former Apple CEO John Sculley had been named Honorary President of the Worldwide Newton Association, concerned members of the Apple community have decided to conduct an intervention. Starting next week, Newton users will be targeted for some “tough love” by some familiar faces.

“We wanted to pick people they’d feel comfortable with,” said director of iPod marketing Stan Ng. “Clearly this announcement is a desperate cry for help and these are people we need to tread lightly with.”

All I can say is… “my cold, dead hands…”

Thu, 22 July, 2004

Locks of Love Again

Posted in General at 10 pm

Yes, there’s a reason why I’m linking to this… Locks of Love - Donate Hair

Get your pictures before Sunday….

A litle Apple research

Posted in General at 10 am

Going back though Apple’s Press Release archive I put together this little chart for a friend. It lists the number of months since the latest refresh of each of the computer models from Apple.

PowerMac: 1.5 months ago iMac: 7 mo PowerBook: 3 mo iBook: 3 mo

(Obviously the iPod was just updated this week.) But I’m sure I saw a web site out there that had this same information except it went back a few years. Has anyone else seen that? Please PingBack, Comment or send me a note if you have the URL for the site I’m talking about, as my Google-fu is failing me.

Mon, 19 July, 2004

WebVisions Follow up links

Posted in General at 11 pm

I added these to a previous entry, but for those of you who don’t studiously track the edits of each one of my 800+ entries, I present them here. This list is being continuously updated as more links come in.