Doctor: $75 Rhinocort: $80 Allegra: $86

No more sneezing and runny nose: Priceless

I was iChat video chatting with my bro, and walked around the house and outside with my laptop and camcorder, and gave him a little tour. That is not as easy as it sounds!

But it did work well!

A friend installed this shareware hack onto his 15″ imac, rebooted, got a blinking question mark. After 2 days, it went back to Apple and was reported to have a bad logic board. Beware of this low level hack!

On Monday I was trying to use iChat AV and the video was SO SLOW I could not move windows, type, nothing! I thought it was my DV cam vs. my 500 TiBook.

Then I logged out and back in today, and tried it again with my brother, and the speed was great! Then while we were chatting, he launched SnapzPro and his 933 went to hell performance wise. It took him over a minute to get logged out.

Then I recalled that I had launched SnapsPro on Monday to take a screenshot in the morning, so it had been running already.

Thus, we seem to think that SnapzPro does not like iChat AV, or vice versa.

Ok so there is all of this brohaha over Apple’s benchmark numbers being faster than a Dell or AMD or what not. People are writing 5 page articles on how Apple lied and used cheesy tests.

However, some people see the humor in this, such as the wonderful Ars story on this subject.

What really cracks me up is this: Anyone who uses a company’s benchmark data to buy a computer is a marketing fool. These numbers mean nothing.

Do the articles that rebuff Apple’s benchmarks mention the Photoshop or Mathematics speed tests? No. Do they mention that some of us believe we are more efficient using Macs? No. Do they mention that Apple has a kickass hardware design, which cures a lot of what people have been whining about forever in Macs? No.

WAAAAAAAAAA. Get a life, guys. This is no different than nVidia or ATI saying their cards are “faster.” Horse hockey. Run benchmarks on the games you play and buy the best card for those. Read Ars, Toms, educate yourself and stop worrying about SPECs.

Wait till the machines are out, run the apps you need to run, decide which computer will make you a more efficient worker and buy that machine. Then find someone nice, take them to dinner and have a nice time.

Foster kindness in your heart, some seeds may fall, but some will have a good start.

Foster love, for others in your life, a smile or a hug, can reduce a little strife.

The winds, the skies, our earthen soil, they foster us by training us, times to play, times to toil.

Often wrongs are done to us, anger sent our way, seek justice, for justices sake, but foster forgiveness, you’ll have a brighter day.

Wow. New G5s (drool), and Panther was so so in my book, but I will love Exposé, the feature that elegantly lets you navigate windows. That rocked!

Fast search looked really cool too.

Fast user switch was awesome, even tho I don’t use it much. However, one might be inclined to now, simply for things like work vs. home uses on the same machine. You can almost use fast switching like virtual desktops!

And they rotate like a cube, too!

I spent some time today trying out iChat AV on my TiBook 500. The audio was fairly poor with a lot of background noise on both ends. The video didn’t work much better. Forget putting an AV connection in the background, the mac grinds to a halt. This could be due to Comcast, they have been sucking lately.

Thank you Apple for putting sign off messages in iChat windows, and for the auto-growing text input field!

Apple shipped Safari today! I am not sure what is improved over beta 2, but I know they did not fix Java.

Java still opens this console window up (that can never close) and Digichat’s java chat client does not work either.

I was a beta site for Star Wars Galaxies, an online role playing game. It is coming out soon and the NDA has been lifted, so I’ve posted some of my screenshots:

Star Wars Galaxies Photo Album

You’ve all seen the leaked specs. You can already buy a t-shirt

lol

The night sky, above and by, called to me by name.

It whispered my future, one moment at a time, chilling yet thrilling, what was to come.

My heart leapt high, into the sky, and mingled with the stars.

Then fell down to earth and reminded me, how fragile we all are.

I installed the latest OS X Security Update for 10.2.6, and Airport 3.1 and rebooted. Networking was dead. The System Pref panels were dead.

After dorking around for awhile, Curt suggested I delete:

/private/var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml

I did, and also

/private/var/db/SystemConfiguration/com/apple.airport.preferences.xml

Rebooted. All of my networking prefs were gone (yay) so I reset them to DHCP and it lives.

Thanks, Curt!

(INPO)

* Mad Monster Party (Rankin/Bass 1966 puppet masterpiece, got it on DVD!!!) * The Princess Bride (All time fav) * The Red Violin (wonderful story) * Waking up to sunshine * Walks in the forest on a cool evening * Trying out a new piece of software that “gets it right” * Playing with toys (legos, clay, construction paper) * Painting pottery (Have not done this near enough!) * Hanging out with friends * Making horribly bad obscure puns * Realizing I’ve matured in some area (and how many left to go!) * Writing poetry * That smile on someone’s face when you make a sincere compliment (as opposed to?) * My animated haunted house bank that my grandmother bought for me * (My small bank collection in general) * All things Disneyland * Pinball machines (Have one, want a Haunted House, circa 1980) * Holding my tongue when I realize it is just bitterness that will come out * Laughing with my brother so hard at a George Carlin concert that neither one of us can breathe * getting closer to my brother * Barry White * Barry Manilow * Village People (Anyone who has that gall gets thumbs up) * State Fairs * Weird Al * Bonnie Raitt * My parents

Do you ever make these lists? Thanks for being part of my personal growth, part of that is admitting stuff I like and not worrying what others think (big “duh” I know) as opposed to just stating what you dislike because that requires less personal defenses.

Oh! I was talking about SCO! Now they have revoked IBM’s AIX license. Talk about a bunch of people making money for nothing they did themselves. I guess they went to the Microsoft School of Business.

If I ever have the chance to turn down working with these guys, I will!

For those Kevin Smith fans, this two disc DVD set is a must have. It is absolutely hilarious!

Kevin answers questions and tells stories from his different university appearances. Jason Mewes makes appearances, too!

I took a short 1 mile hike through the Tualatin Hills Nature Park. What a lovely little park! It is right around the corner from me, and while I have seen it on the GPS, I never did see a way in.

I would have hiked more, but even the Claritin is not helping much with these pollens. I plan on going back soon to check out the other trails!

IE is gone. Yay! What cracks me up is their whining about Safari having insider info.

Yeah, that is why Camino’s java support is better than Safari at the moment?

MS never ceases to amaze me in their gall, attitude and just utter brashness.

I hope this affords the Safari and Camino teams the energy to go for it.

OmniWeb is still out for me. They still have a custom plugin format and I’m sorry, it’s hard enough getting plugins as is. Maybe Safari, Camino and OmniWeb can come together with a kick butt, late bound plugin architecture, standardize on it, make great docs and make it SO EASY for people to make plugins on the mac it would be stupid to not do so.

Carpe Diem, folks. This is your moment.

Portland night, glistening under the clouds, beauty reigns down, peeks through it’s cool shelter.

Moon bright and full, hanging alone in the sky, I know how it feels.

Scent of some flower, twitching at my senses, someday, someone to share with.

Calm, serene and peaceful, oh such a Portland night.

See you on the Safari!

MS drops Mac IE development. Not like there had been any lately. And this a day after I sign off the Mac-IE-Talk mailing list. Am I good or what??

MS will now use the Windows only browser to force crappy non-standard codes to us.. Great. Where is the DOJ when you really need em? When will people learn?