Category: Ramblings

When did that happen?

http://g-blog.net/rankings.php

Zhan, I probably wouldn’t have noticed for a few more days if you hadn’t mentioned it.

I guess that’s what I get for hiding off-line for a couple of weeks. Grats, Zhaneel. 🙂 I’m actually a little surprised you didn’t take over the number 2 spot sooner. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why I’ve had so many hits since Gossip added the tracking system.

There are a couple of entries I’ve been kicking around in my head. They’re a little different from my normal ramblings, or the “link” blogs (an entry where I just post a few links I found that I want to remember) I normaly post. A little more personal, and probably a more interesting read. I’m still not entirely sure I want to post them, and I don’t know why that is. I think I might try out the new privacy feature. I’ll post one or two, make the appropriate edits, and then open them up (or re-post them) to the public.

I’m back (sorta)

I haven’t been here since the 25th. Not even to lurk. I got hit with a pretty nasty cold during my vacation, and for some reason I just decided that I needed to spend some time not-online. I didn’t even do any of the work on PHP projects (not to mention GLUE themes) that I promised myself I would over the holiday. I’m sure that there is a whole bunch of stuff to catch up on, but I still don’t quite feel up to it.

Anyway – I’m not dead, I’m just not online much right now…

-Hool

Out Shopping…

my wife and I are out doing some christmas shopping – in the rain.
There is a new shopping center in Emeryville that we decided to check out. We just ducked into an Apple Store to get out of the rain for a bit. Just thought I’d hop on one of the iLamps and see if it had net access. It does. 🙂

(Yes, I am a geek, and a g-blog addict.)

I want one of these G4’s that are sitting next to the iMacs…

Anyway – back out into the weather we go!

Make it stop. Please, make it stop.

I finally figured out why I’ve been so edgy since lunch.

The HVAC system in my part of the building is acting up again.

It used to buzz or whine in the mornings for a couple of minutes and for much longer at night. I’ve literally been driven out of the office at 4:45 a couple of time because the niose was giving me a headache. Our facilities people finally figured out what the problem was, and fixed it. (well – “MacGyvered” it anyway…)

Right now its not whining, but it is clicking – sounds like a pc doing some heavy HD writing over in the corner. (I thought that’s what it was at first, untill I walked over and saw that the machines over there are all powered down.) I really noticed it about 30 min ago – it probably took a while for the noise to register as unusual – I bet it’s been clicking away since at least noon.

The noise is driving me batty – music doesn’t seem to mask it, and I don’t have any headphones here. 🙁

An eclectic mix

I’m at my mothers house today trying to repair her computer…

Since it’s just me and the dog, I brought a few CDs to listen too on the nice stereo system. supplemented a few of my discs with a couple of theirs. Currently in the rotation:

Moulin Rouge Soundrack
Gravity Kills
Crystal Method
Elvis
Dire Straights
Depeche Mode
Brass Works
Weird Al

It’s quite strange going from “Congress of Vienna” to “All About the Pentiums” to “My Teddybear” to “Come What May” to “Money for Nuthin”…

Way past my bedtime

Uhm – It’s about 3:00am my time, and after 4 hours, I’m just now getting back online after deciding tonight would be a good night to wipe my computer and re-install the OS.

Couldn’t get the stupid freaking modem to be detected properly… not to mention the 3 or 4 times the system has “forgotten” about other pieces of hardware.

[Quote] What do you MEAN there’s no nVidia chipset?! I just got done installing the drivers for that damn card… Hey, why isn’t my cd-rom drive working? [Quote]

It looks like I have everything mostly under control now. I can get online, and that’s all that really matters. I’ll worry about installing the rest of my essential software tomorrow night.

-Hool

Edited on Sep 25th 2002, 10:02 by Hooloovoo