How would you like Tama to be your boss?
Note the interesting cultural reference as well – Tama is “the highest-ranking female at the Wakayama Electric Railway Co.”.
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MacBook on the Way!
I did it. I bit the bullet and order a MacBook. After a few months of recognizing that I need a new laptop, combined with some financial number crunching and analysis, I’ve settled on the 13.3″ Macbook. Now I get to enjoy that sense of anticipation while I wait for the big box to appear on my doorstep.
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Back to Work
There’s nothing like coming back in to the office after a few days off to be greeted with over 250 emails. And with our handy dandy e-mail capacity restriction that blocks us from sending e-mail if we have too much already accumulated in our mailbox, it will take until the end of the day before I can reply to anything.
Welcome back.
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PC or Mac (continued)?
Bryan and I had an e-mail exchange last week on the topic of whether I should get a PC or a Mac as my next laptop. Here’s a brief summary of what I learned.
- Macs work well “straight out of the box”
- Macs handle video / DVD editing without adding any software
- Friends of Bryan attest to Parallels runs Windows better on a Mac than Windows on a PC
- I can still sync up Smartphones like the Blackberry courtesy of 3rd party software
- MS Office runs fairly well on Macs
- I also get the use of TextEdit, iTunes, iMovie and Quicktime with Perian
- JBuilder, myEclipse, and mySQL are also available
- My printer (HP PhotoSmart 3210) is compatible
- My Maxtor Shared Storage drive is compatible as well
- BookEndz does make a MacBook “docking station”
Looks like I’m going to have a tough decision on my hands soon (very soon, given my keyboard is starting to break).
Finally! On top of making WordPress work in under an hour (take that, Movable Type!), I’ve also got a Photo Gallery working too! Sure, it needed a few minor script fixes, but it only took about an hour to figure that out compared to four weeks of failure with Movable Type. I’ll post an update soon once I finish updating all my recent photos.
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End of Movable Type
And so ends the Movable Type experience. I’ll be trying another platform, now at http://www.cdymek.com/blog/. The RSS feed has change as well.
So far, the new new site is up and running. Hopefully it will stay that way. There may be a few “flukes” in the system right now, like permissions errors, but overall it’s just as good as Movable Type with, I hope, more stability.
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And Now to Try Blog It Again
After all the difficulty of the past week, it would be interesting to find that Six Apart’s Blog It works better with WordPress than Movable Type.
The site has been slammed for a few days now with a heavy enough load trying to access the comments and trackback components to bring down the entire shared server. As a result I’ve taken some countermeasures to try to stop the deluge until more permanent solutions can be found. For the time being, comments and trackbacks have been disabled. Hopefully this will help alleviate enough of the burden on the server that I can keep the site up enough to post.
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PC or Mac?
After realizing a two weeks ago just how old my laptop is, I decided the need to find a replacement was a much higher priority than it was. I know that I’m looking for a dual processor with a 13.3″ screen, and built-in optical drive. However, with the converison of Macs to Intel processors, the whole OS X thing, and two solid programs in Parallels and VMWare Fusion, I’m in something of a bind.
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From the “Makes Me Laugh” File
I read this quote with great amusement:
“It [the Mississippi House seat special election loss] was another wake-up call that we have to show Americans that we can
fix the problems here in Washington and fix the problems they deal with
every day,” said Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House
Republican leader.
Memo to Boehner: You ARE the problem in Washington.