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If you haven’t downloaded a Firebird nightly, this is the one to get. The new download manager is stunning. It’s sleek, real professional, and really nifty. I like being able to clean out with the click of a button. UI is very responsive, and pause/resume seems to work on click, rather [...]

As I normally don’t work on Thanksgiving, let me say now HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
For those non-Americans, Thanksgiving is when the US invades Turkey, and kills Turkeys that weight several pounds (babies if you will), and eat them. It’s a proud tradition. Some more progressive Americans feel it’s discrimination, so they eat meat from several [...]

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Just FYI, never expect anything you order from IBM to ship in a timely manner. Thursday morning aprox. 8:00 AM, I placed an order. 24 hours of Credit card processing, and it ships right? Well, it’s Monday, and they hope to ship today, or “at the latest” tomorrow. Then 3-5 day [...]

Still waiting for a new drive. Should arrive tomorrow, should be home to install it Wednesday Evening. Won’t have the IBM Adapter so I can get my data over for another few days though (perhaps Friday). So we shall see.
Let the silence begin again… warning, it may be harmful to your hearing.

In the ongoing laptop saga…
Windows XP is trashed. No networking at all. So I need to backup. My best solution has been to move up the plans I had for a summer upgrade to a Thanksgiving upgrade (who says only your tummy gets full on the holiday?)
Here’s the plan:
Get a much faster [...]

I seem to have blown up Windows… here’s my tale:
Got a message this morning, that my USB Hub had a short or overload (no reason to believe that). All devices hooked to that hub, stopped responding (bad news).
Later today, had several programs just crash on me. Typical of Windows. So I reboot.
No [...]

School is starting to kick my ass. I’ve got lots of studying this week, meaning much less outside work (read: anything visible online) will be done in the next few days. Unfortunately, MacVillage is coming along, and is becoming very standards compliant. I’m thrilled to be working with standards more than ever. [...]

All I can say is yikes. Checkout what the FDA Approved.
I’m not sure what market they are targeting here? In any case, it’s a bit humorous, yet creepy. Is teen (and possibly earlier) sex really that out of hand creating a market for this?
I’m really quite curious as [...]

What has been a really annoying issue apparently has a better patch. Bug 21962 has been fixed.
Thankfully. Hopefully this time, all these errors will go away. Not as often as before the first fix, but still happens sometimes.

It’s been noted that Apple launched an iPod site, around the web.
Yes, it is an Apple Website:
Uses Apple DNS
Resolves to Apple IP Address (Powered by OS X)
Apple tagline on bottom
What more proof is needed?
I’m going to venture a guess, and say it’s going to be part of a marketing push for the Christmas [...]