Note to self. Oz is a PowerMac G4 867 QS Tower. That is QS (QuickSilver) as opposed to MDD (Mirrored Drive Doors) which means he is older which means he has an Ultra ATA/66 bus instead of ATA/100 which means the 200 GB drive I picked up for $99 at Sam’s will only end up acting like a 137 MB drive.
Also, Oz has an extra video card and when you forget that and plug into it, you end up seeing blank desktop (or extended desktop) and you think something is wrong. Tip: Plug the video cable higher.
I wrote about the story of Graphing Calculator which disappeared with the introduction of Mac OS X. A variation of this 3-D graphing calculator has returned in the form of Grapher. You can spin the 3-D equations like z = y * x.
Danny or Kelly should take note. Look in the Utilities folder inside your Applications folder for Grapher.
There is a new version of Movable Type available, and I will be upgrading Mac 5 soon.
A lot of it is behind-the-scenes improvements, but the new styles library is fun to shop. Take a peek and let me know if you’d like to change your look.
Danny got a checking account over a year ago. When a new client came out with a series of fun checks, Danny wanted to get the John Deere checks. He had not really had a reason to have checks, and really won’t need them until school.
I ordered them over the web for him and had to guess at the layout of numbers at the bottom, since he never had checks before. We did a test. It worked. He’s now ready to start giving his money to Spring Hill. (And yes, I refunded the $5 test to him but I used electronic funds transfer. Much easier.)
Now playing: Money For Nothing by Dire Straits
In his statistical observation, Ted asks:
“I wonder if people will think all we do is smoke cigars? ”
And the answer is emphatically, no, that is not all we do. Not even Cuban cigars. Nor do we sit around and drink cognac with the Cuban cigars, even if our son did go out shopping on the island with his big sister and get a good deal on a few Cubans, bringing them back to the ship. Not even if the bartender were to suggest the proper way to smoke a Cuban cigar is by dipping the drawing end into your cognac. Not even then. We don’t want people to get the wrong impression.
A tip from Justin Blanton on how to build nested archives. I don’t want to have the monthly archive list to keep growing so long. It gets ridiculous after several years. My goal is to have it be like this where each numeric month is a link. Much more efficient use of space.
2005: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
2004: 01 02 03 04 07 08 09 10 11 12
It cost more that gasoline. It is no better or worse for you than tap water. In most cases, people cannot tell the difference in blind taste tests.
The Penn & Teller alley-water test is funny….
Thank you first to Kathy for putting together a wonderful dinner party that included cooking under a hot umbrella! The internet cake was delicious. You can borrow my teflon umbrella any time, especially after Grandad’s comment.
Thank you to Mom and Dad for making my birthday possible in the first place. The custard will be much enjoyed. Have to finish off before Saturday.
Thank you Sistuh Carol and Bruthu Grant for calling. Jake’s barbershop quartet(quintet? sextet?) is always a treat.
Thank you Bruthu Ted for coming over with your 24 (different) friends named Sam. We missed Susan. (We did not miss the Fishhouse punch.)
Thank you Nico for driving in to celebrate with Fatherman. I took two of the giant cookies to work for a snack today. Yum yum.
Thank you D.C. for helping your Mom cook in the rain. If the 12 new Stouts were your idea, then Stout and I thank you.
Thank you Kelly and Mary Claire for the beautiful paintings. They will definitely help dress up my office. You both get first ride in the new hammock.
This is a TinyUrl that will (for the rest of time) search for the exact phrase “The Psychic Hearts”. Putting the quotes around a phrase in Google will look only for pages with that exact phrase.
So as long as TinyUrl.com and Google.com exist, this is the URL that will do that search:
UPDATE: The owner of the dot com variation ends up at the top of the search above. So I created this second tinyurl which adds “nico” to the search string at google. So the search is: nico “The Psychic Hearts”
I’ve also updated the title of this posting.
Will need to support e-mail services if we are going to sell web hosting services…