Archive for January, 2005
The Duo has died
Well my adventure in vintage Mac laptops was short–the PowerBook Duo 280 that I got has died. It plays a sad little song when I try to power it up. I assume that song means something specific–Apple probably has one tune for RAM failure, another if the hard disk dies, and so on. I’ve posted […]
Solar replacement lights
The little garden lights on the front of my house are just awful–the wiring has come loose in most of them so that they sometimes don’t come on at night. I have to walk by and jiggle the wires on them to make them turn on. Plus of course the timer is a fixed time, […]
Automated quotes for my 401K
So I was just playing around with PHP and poking around in Google, discovered it’s pretty easy to use PHP to pull queries off the Yahoo finance server. So I built a quote page tonight while I was watching the Australian Open on ESPN2. So I can see at a glance how the various […]
Got a clean Mac OS installed on the PowerBook Duo
It took a lot longer than it should have, but I finally got a clean Mac OS 7.5.3 install on the old PowerBook Duo. I fumbled around a lot, it’s been a long long time since I last had to really fiddle around with the older Mac OS.
I downloaded the disk images onto one of […]
Latest Chesney album is okay but not as good as the last two
Bought the latest Kenny Chesney CD last night, Be As You Are. I’ve listened to it a couple times now and it’s not as good as his last two efforts. The thing is it just doesn’t seem quite as much of a country album as I’d expected.
That’s not to say it’s bad, and maybe if […]
Cylon technology invades our building
So at the place I work they installed a nice new wireless network a few weeks ago. I just noticed the little 3Com access point that was slapped onto the ceiling in our main lobby.
Nerd that I am, the first thing I thought of when I saw it there was Battlestar Galactica. It’s kindof […]
Never going to a Mac swap meet again
So the local Mac enthusiast club here in Louisville had a swap meet tonight. The basic idea was for everyone to bring the Mac stuff they no longer needed, to see if anybody else wanted to buy or trade the stuff, or just take it off your hands. Unfortunately I ended up coming home […]
Yahoo baby was a hoax
A week or so ago there was a widely-publicized story about a couple in Romania naming their baby “Yahoo,” after the Web site where they first met. Apparently that story was a hoax, and the paper in Romania has fired the reporter.
Kind of a bummer–it was weird but sorta romantic to think there really […]
Looking at an old Porsche 928
There’s a guy over in New Albany selling his 1981 Porscge 928. I took a look at it this afternoon and it’s in pretty rough shape. Needs new paint, the interior is generally okay, missing the radio antenna, the passenger door doesn’t open nor does the passenger power window work. But the kicker is that […]
Damn there are some expensive boats out there
Went to the Louisville Boat & RV Show today, mostly to see the RV’s but also to take a peek at some of the yachts out there. I did find a little RV, small enough that it can probably be towed by my little Honda CR-V. It’s called the Tab, it’s also short enough […]