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Welcome Back
First of all, I just want to say welcome back to myself. It’s been a busy week, and tuesday was my first day back on the broadband wagon — 10 days without a cable modem (and cable TV for that matter) was quite the challenge. But alas, here I am, able to waste my time with the best of them.
Playing around today with the styles for the site — found this neat new plugin for the mozilla FireFox browser called “Edit CSS” that lets you edit a pages CSS and watch it update live in the browser. This is good for web designers, but also anyone who wants to customize the look and feel of just about ANY website, using your own custom style sheet for a site.
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Move Complete
We’ve Completed The Big Move, to our lovely new apartment. The amazing thing is how spacious it feels even after all our crap was moved in.
I just set up my computer, and my desk is now stained a lovely pecan color, which is nice. Still a lot of work to do, but the biggest drag right now is the fact that my high-speed internet connection is, well, nonexistant. I’m connecting right now through my cell phone, which is slow as BM, but it works. Dial up speeds (slower, really), welcome back! Time warner says February 24 (9 days and counting) before they can set it up, but I’m hoping I can get some strings pulled with some people I know.
Anyway, I’ll post pictures soon…
Weird directions.
From Apple’s Web Site
For optimal sound quality and performance, the Apple In-Ear Headphones need to make a good seal with your ear canal. Simply placing the ear buds in your ear without making a good seal can result in less than desirable audio quality.
…Everyone’s ears are different… In some cases, wiggling the ear bud into place can also help. Let go of your ear when you feel a good seal . The ear bud should remain securely in place when there’s a good seal. Repeat the process until the desired fit is achieved.
If you’ve inserted the ear bud as far as is comfortable, but can’t get a good seal, try a larger ear cap size. If you get a good seal with a larger ear cap size, but it is uncomfortable, try a smaller ear cap size.
[ You might also try having your ears surgically altered to fit the size of the ear plugs ]
New Apartment — Cool stuff!
We signed the lease to the new digs yesterday — check out these pics of the new place in virtual smell-o-rama!
Weird File on my Drive
Found a weird file on my desktop — “ChassisD.log” I’m not sure where it came from… it was last modified on the 22nd, created on the 13th… it appears to be some networking related thing, but I’m really not sure…. anyone?
13/01 18:27:06 inAENumber = 15000 (0x3a98) ‘ : ‘
13/01 18:27:06 pShareData before = 94142464 (0x59c8000) ‘ ‘
13/01 18:27:06 pShareData after = 94142464 (0x59c8000) ‘ ‘
13/01 18:27:06 tagYourIt = 1 (0x1) ‘ ‘
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Moooovin’ on…
So it looks like Tania and I are moving! Through our friend Tami we learned of a vacant one bedroom apartment on South 1st and Berry, with a back yard and everything!
Well, calling it a back yard is generous — a back patio is more like it, but it’s still awesome. We’re going to sign the lease tomorrow (it’s actually going to be in Tania’s name because my credit stinks, but hey, no worries).
It’s kind of weird, as I’ve lived in this apartment for nearly 5 years — I’m not sentimentally attached to it, but it’s like an old habit that will be weird to let go of.
That said, I’m looking forward to having a place that’s just for me and Tania (and Mylo!). Most importantly, it’s in the same neighborhood, which makes it much more appealing than this place Will post more details soon…
PS, if anyone needs an apartment, our current roommate Eric is probably taking over the lease if he can find someone, so let me know!
My moblog/photolog
I’m still working on it but I’m going to start posting more photo log stuff here:
Plus better photos soon from my new digital camera! (thanks ryan, jen, fred, tania)
I Say Today is My Birthday.
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Yup. 27 today. Ryan and Mikey took me to Peter Luger for an amazing steak dinner last night. Mmmm. It was good. New desk lamp from tania — I’ve been needing one! Bought a new coat from this vintage store on Bedford. It’s this really cool striped jobber — it’s like what the guys on the airport runway wear. In fact, I think it is exactly that. Quite warm, and much needed. Yay!
Apple: Keynote thoughts
After watching Steve Jobs’ Macworld keynote speech (via Quicktime Stream), I’ve been surfing around, wondering what people’s thoughts are — it seems many folks are underwhelmed, but ultimately that’s usually what happens with these things. Lots of hype and anticipation, and when Jobs neglects to pull a golden egg from his bum people seem disappointed!
After thinking about it and posting responses on other people’s blogs, I figured I should post my thoughts here.
Read on to find out what I think about iPod mini, iLife, GarageBand and more…
Merry X-mas
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Happy holidays to everyone. Finished all my holiday shopping yesterday — almost all at Amazon.com. What a breeze that was. The hardest part was that when I initially placed the order it wouldn’t go through; I kept getting a weird error message and was sent back to Amazon’s homepage. I called their customer support # (which isn’t listed anywhere on their site, btw. For future reference: 1-800-201-7575), but they weren’t too helpful. They just told me it was a problem with their web site and to try back in a couple of hours.
Two hours later it still didn’t work, so I decided to troubleshoot. Turns out that two of the items on my list were not being sold by Amazon.com, but by one of their retail partners. I removed those items from my shopping cart and I was able to place the rest of the order without a hitch. I then placed those two items as separate orders and they also went through. Odd, but still much easier than trekking around the city, standing in line, going to the post office to mail stuff. Oy.
I should start packing — Tania and I are on our way to L.A. to visit her family for christmas tomorrow morning at 6am. We’re going to spend christmas day in Monterey, actually. It’s my first time to either location, and I’m looking forward to it — although two warm x-mases in a row is a bit odd (last year in hawaii). I’m not complaining though!
So happy holidays to everyone, and until next year…
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