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Small steps, but I’ve taken them. I’m ready to be ready. Now the process is proactively healthy myself from the inside out. The journey is long, life long, but I am on my way.

If I act weird in the next few weeks, blame my doc. LOL

From macintouch:

Musician Jody Whitesides emailed us with an interesting perspective on Buymusic.com, the new Windows competitor to Apple’s iTunes Music Store:

My name is Jody Whitesides, I’m an artist that is about to be brought to the Apple iTunes Music Store. Of course I recently heard about BuyMusic so I decided to point my Mac browser at it (with Javascript turned off you can see the site).   I did a search for one of my old CDs that will be going onto iTunes and It turns out my CD was there on BuyMusic.com, as were the CDs of several other bands that I’m friends with – all of whom were not contacted about being placed for sale there.   Here’s what I’ve deduced… BuyMusic.com (which I will refer to as BM) got their “vast” music library of 300,000 plus songs from a company called The Orchard . The Orchard is a distribution company that has consistently shafted artists [...] So, without the express consent of what is likely lots of The Orchard’s catalog, BM has put it up for sale at the bargain price of $.79 a song.   So, now they can tout they’re selling tracks at $.79, and they can say they have a library of music of over 300,000 songs. But what they don’t tell you is that it comes from musicians/bands who were not asked for permission, and who will likely not see a penny of any sale made through BM. [...]   I’m currently looking into legal means to have my music removed from their site and strongly encourage users to not browse BM’s site nor purchase from it.

of crap like

Ah yes, a midi file can be used to infiltrate your PC. Only from the minds of Microsoft.

Yes, I have seen Pirates of the Caribbean three times. Yes, it is moving up to one of the top fav movies for me. Of course, I am a Disneyland nut, so this is not too hard to imagine.

Has anyone else noticed an audio-animatronic in the opening shot in Tortuga, up on the balcony? I’m going to have to check again I guess. Drat it all!

I thought Depp was outstanding, the cg was simply wonderful, the story was compelling. I want to take up fencing now.

I guess given that The Princess Bride and now Pirates are at the top of my list, this makes sense, no?

Heyyyy if you are on friendster, and are my friend (heh) drop me an email so I can add you, please.

‘Nuff said

I hired a handyman to install my Sears Kenmore Air Conditioner (good thing too, just as I expected, was a goofy fit) He is cutting weatherproofing to seal off what the plenums did not (what a joke, gaps everywhere) and then I am going to silicone seal it up and paint it.

Already the temp has dropped a degree and that is with the window open. Now to see how much the unit cools the entire house (if at all) It is rated for about half the size, but was the biggest 115v unit I could get.

All I know is it is supposed to be 91 on Monday and if this thing can help the living room stay cooler than 80 degrees, it was worth it. Last week it was 93 inside my place and I had had enough!

Update: I was gone for an hour, and during that time, the outside temp went up 4 degrees to 79 while the house dropped 1/2 a degree to 74.5. So while this won’t be as efficient as forced a/c, it is much better than it used to be, which was matching the outside temp degree for degree.

Update: By popular demand I have posted a picture of the unit inside and one of it outside.

Of all people to get music rights, it had to be Michael Jackson! Read this statement!

Jackston Comment on new laws

My contract has been extended, so I am gainfully employed for at least 6 months. Good news in hard times.

Smalltalk is so much fun!

I’ve posted some pictures from my trip to Europe. None of me, but I did take them!

Europe is fascinating and I cannot wait to return and have more time to explore the counties here.

This article talks about a recent test run that left a 40cm hole in a shuttle carbon panel from a chunk of foam. The “smoking gun” seems to confirm that this is what doomed Columbia.

Go Apple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CNET Article on Apple getting exclusive rights to movie soundtrack

WiebeTech today announced a 7200RPM version of the company’s popular MicroGB+ pocket drive… [MacMinute.com]

Goodnight, Barry. You were a wonderful influence on me. Will miss you sorely.

Barry White, the amazing singer of love and respect, passed away today.

I’ve posted some photos from trip to Philadelphia. More to come as they are approved/happen!

Philly Photos!

This hotel I stayed in has 802.11b. I had bought a Linksys card for my TiBook and it works, but only 2 bars, so NO WAY the airport would have worked. They told me it was not Mac compatible. I said “Give me the PC instructions” All I needed was the SSID. Then it worked. They said “What do Mac users need to do?” I said “Choose Other Network from the Airport Menu and enter the SSID” They said “That’s all?” I said, yep. ROFL

The PC instructions were 5 pages of getting to prefs and setting up a new network connection. LOL

I wanted better airport/802.11b reception so I looked into third party antennas. Then I found I could get a Macsense 802.11b card for $99 but nobody had them. So on a lark I bought a Linksys 802.11b/g card for $80 from CompUSA and was going to find some third party drivers or hacks to make it work.

Well lo and behold I read that as of Airport 3.1, Apple now supports some of the more popular cards, such as those based on the Broadcom chips! My linksys is, so I plugged it in….

Next I had four airports listed, oops heh. So I pulled out my airport card. Now I had just the one. For some reason the linksys won’t auto log into my hidden WEP network, so once I use the Airport menu to type in the network name/password, it works!

I did a quick test and where I used to get 1-2 bars, and virtually lost connection, I now get 3-4 bars, depending on how I sit. Once I go to the living room, I am 4 bars no matter what (whereas before, I used to be able to drop connection by sitting wrong)

Thanks Apple for supporting third party cards, after you dorked up the tibook with no reception! And hey, now I am ready for 802.11g, and can move this card to another laptop at will!

Update:

I used Terminal and did:

sudo rm /var/db/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.xml sudo rm /var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml

And now I am down to one Airport entry, and the password sticks!