• There’s always time for tinkering

    I may be slaving away at work, but that’s no excuse for my trusty PowerBook to sit home alone, sleeping away the day in quiet oblivion. It’s here at the office with me, busily writing zeros to my (for the moment) resurrected iPod. Once it’s done with that it’s got a little reformatting to do… then a little matter of transferring eight gigabytes of data.

    Between you and me, the iPod is probably a lost cause… but don’t tell my PowerBook. With everything else going on, I don’t need it to be upset with me too.

    This just in from the wires… I may be the only person in state government at this moment to have three, fully operational computers, a temporarily restored iPod, and a Palm OS device… simultaneously cranking away on my desk. I’m not altogether sure this is an achievement I should be proud of or not, but I’m getting a shit load of stuff done.

    Mush yon workers.

  • Diminishing Utility

    Tell me this dear friend, what use is a do to list which is continuously added to but never subtracted from?

    Over the last couple of weeks, and extending through the next month, my office has a two to one work needed – work capable of being done ratio. Truth be told, it’s not quite that good. A more accurate description would be to say that we’ve got twice the work we used to have – which was already half as much again as much as we were capable of doing. Pity my poor Palm OS device… tracking those to do list items with the futility of a lone fact checker at an American presidential campaign stump speech.

  • R.I.P. my bondi blue buddy

    Yesterday marked the passing of my original, 1998 vintage, rev. B, bondi blue iMac. I was firing it back up to serve as a back up server, so I could bring the iBook off-line for some heavy duty servicing. Alas, my old buddy went down in an unspectacular snap, crackle and pop within thirty seconds of powering it up.

    It seems like it was only yesterday I was ankle tackling a fellow post-Thanksgiving shopper to get one of the last promotional iMacs on the Comp USA shelf (they were giving away a free printer, scanner, Imation Superdrive, AND 13 inch color TV with the purchase of an iMac**).

    As few of you as there are, I’d hate to lose one of you to server maintenance. Now that my little buddy is gone, I’m lost in a sea of uncertainty. What will I do now?!?

    **After mail-in rebates. Note: the color TV was not exclusive to iMac sales… they were giving one away with any PC purchase.