i’m chalking it up to self-learning, after all i did learn how to use jquery and hack together a second Loop in wordpress. still some things i want to do though. version 2.0 coming shortly.

(ick, i feel kinda dirty praising a MS product)

linky

pretty long winded start to this post huh? well get used to it. since i’ve been using twitter, its been taking up the more frequent posts leaving me with less to say here. so i think i’m going to try to write more lengthy and hopefully more insightful posts here in exchange for reduced frequency.

i have to say that after keeping this little blogging thing going for a long while, i have much respect for people that can keep up the dialogue. it requires a level of commitment that is commendable. even if all you’re writing about is what you had for breakfast and an indepth examination of the end result of that meal’s travels through your digestive system. (that was a round about metaphor for shit in case you missed it).

but back to writing and motivation. what motivates people to write? excess creativity? idle hands? dreams of financial windfalls? creation of a false persona? self-brand management? something else?

…

screw it. i had cheerios for breakfast…

except for now. had one very lame, geeked out weekend triggered by spending money.

been thinking about upgrading ye olde macbook for a while now but was holding out to see what apple came up with. frankly, not impressed. prettier package but more expensive and not the features i wanted. as a result, kept my eyes open for a deal on a new drive. lo and behold ncix did a black friday special. seagate momentus 7200.3 in a monstrous 320GB for $90! who can resist? of course while the actual physical install took less than 5 minutes, the data backup and restore took about 8 hours. woke up saturday morning to an upgraded laptop that vibrated like a motherfucker. stupid new drive was wonky and vibrating way too much. so back to ncix for a replacement and reinstall and data restore and finally success.

with that out of the way it was time to turn my attention to upgrading steph’s macbook pro to leopard. of course that means another multi-hour backup prior to upgrade but at least that went smoothly. or so i thought.

turns out the backups are now corrupted due to some stupid error with our NAS box. i hate the lacie etherdisk mini. its a pile of junk. slow, noisy, crappy quality and poor design choices. this is our second one (first one mysteriously died) and this time the file directory structure got corrupted which means you can’t reliably access files. even dropping into unix commands couldn’t solve the problem. which means formatting and starting all over again. bullshit.

now that just leaves dropping the old laptop drive into the ps3. i’ll leave that for next weekend after we go to the christmas tree farm…

i’m such a lame-o

luckily while over there we discovered an indispensable tool. diddlefinger.com

just click on the “English Address Search” option and it lets you enter in the english version of a japanese address via a process of drop down menus and displays the results in google map. i tested it out tons and it never let me down. stoked.

and they have an iphone version!

if this doesn’t work i’m going to move to a cabin in the woods with no electricity.

(geez…i’m turning into quite the little activist these days…)