WOOT!
03/30/05 04:37 PM |
General
Don't you just love it when you get a bunch of new
stuff all at once? In some cases it can be bad
though. For example, I've hardly touched Goldeneye:
Rogue Agent for PS2 that I got for Christmas.
But in this case it is a good thing. The Mac Mini rocks. I can't believe how quiet it is. The hard drive I took out of my old G3 and stuck into an external enclosure is the loudest thing in the room. But the thing rocks. I really missed running a Mac at home.
Then I got a new toy at work. Well, it's actually just a replacement part but still very cool. We had an 8 port fiber media to 10baseT converter go bad about a month or more ago. So Monday the new 6 port fiber media to 100baseT converter came in. Okay so it isn't that exciting, but still fun to get new toys.
Then today, after the 6 hours without internet at work and 2 hours without power, I finally fired up RapidWeaver to write this and discovered they released version 3.1 with oodles of new features including the one I was waiting for... sub pages! So after some conversion here I am happily typing away and updating you good folks on my day. You'll also notice that the blog page is now archived by month, another new feature. The theme for my site isn't compatible with the new version though. So that's why all the colors and buttons changed.
In non-techie news, I'm in the market for a new aquarium. I think the female guppy is pregnant again. Plus one of the teachers here wants me to take her pleco home with me. But it's as big, maybe bigger than the one I have. I don't think I need two of them that size for my tank. So now I'm debating on whether I want to just steal my parents' 75 gallon tank or buy another 20 gallon tank. I'm leaning towards theft at the moment, but I don't know where I'd put it. It would have to go in the basement, but that would eventually be so inconvienient. Maybe I'll call my mom tonight and talk to her about it.
Now back to techie news. Last night I was all pumped up to play WoW. I was going to raid Gnomeregan for green items and gold to send to Gnick the Gnome. When I got home I did all my normal animal care routines and had dinner. Then I booted up WoW and was greeted with a patch, ugg. These can take forever to download, even on DSL. But it was a small patch and went quite fast. I got back to the login screen, plugged in my name and password....... authenticating........ and then nothing. Well not nothing, it failed. Tried again and it just sat there at authenticating... forever. So I quit WoW and fired up Internet Explorer to check the Realm Status page. Server error. Not a good sign. Apparently yesterday's patch cause some major issues with character naming. My realm, Malygos, was down until after 11pm last night. Blizzard is compensating us all with 2 free days to make up for the all the problems that have occurred since last week's patch. I'm not mad at Blizzard though, I know that these things happen and they so they're best. But I was so looking forward to playing last night. Oh well, I decided to read a book and have a couple cups of tea instead.
One final note for the day. Now that I have the Mac Mini at home and with the new version of RapidWeaver, I'll be upgrading the pictures section of the website soon. Right now I just have a select few of the pictures that I have in digital form. So check back in the next couple of weeks to see if I actually get around to doing it.
But in this case it is a good thing. The Mac Mini rocks. I can't believe how quiet it is. The hard drive I took out of my old G3 and stuck into an external enclosure is the loudest thing in the room. But the thing rocks. I really missed running a Mac at home.
Then I got a new toy at work. Well, it's actually just a replacement part but still very cool. We had an 8 port fiber media to 10baseT converter go bad about a month or more ago. So Monday the new 6 port fiber media to 100baseT converter came in. Okay so it isn't that exciting, but still fun to get new toys.
Then today, after the 6 hours without internet at work and 2 hours without power, I finally fired up RapidWeaver to write this and discovered they released version 3.1 with oodles of new features including the one I was waiting for... sub pages! So after some conversion here I am happily typing away and updating you good folks on my day. You'll also notice that the blog page is now archived by month, another new feature. The theme for my site isn't compatible with the new version though. So that's why all the colors and buttons changed.
In non-techie news, I'm in the market for a new aquarium. I think the female guppy is pregnant again. Plus one of the teachers here wants me to take her pleco home with me. But it's as big, maybe bigger than the one I have. I don't think I need two of them that size for my tank. So now I'm debating on whether I want to just steal my parents' 75 gallon tank or buy another 20 gallon tank. I'm leaning towards theft at the moment, but I don't know where I'd put it. It would have to go in the basement, but that would eventually be so inconvienient. Maybe I'll call my mom tonight and talk to her about it.
Now back to techie news. Last night I was all pumped up to play WoW. I was going to raid Gnomeregan for green items and gold to send to Gnick the Gnome. When I got home I did all my normal animal care routines and had dinner. Then I booted up WoW and was greeted with a patch, ugg. These can take forever to download, even on DSL. But it was a small patch and went quite fast. I got back to the login screen, plugged in my name and password....... authenticating........ and then nothing. Well not nothing, it failed. Tried again and it just sat there at authenticating... forever. So I quit WoW and fired up Internet Explorer to check the Realm Status page. Server error. Not a good sign. Apparently yesterday's patch cause some major issues with character naming. My realm, Malygos, was down until after 11pm last night. Blizzard is compensating us all with 2 free days to make up for the all the problems that have occurred since last week's patch. I'm not mad at Blizzard though, I know that these things happen and they so they're best. But I was so looking forward to playing last night. Oh well, I decided to read a book and have a couple cups of tea instead.
One final note for the day. Now that I have the Mac Mini at home and with the new version of RapidWeaver, I'll be upgrading the pictures section of the website soon. Right now I just have a select few of the pictures that I have in digital form. So check back in the next couple of weeks to see if I actually get around to doing it.
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