12 Oct 2000 ian   » (Apprentice)

I have a lot to write, and absolutely no motivation to do it. Think I'll braindump instead...

Saw a rather odd thing walking to campus the other day--a bright purple minivan with a magnetic sign on the side reading "US MAIL". That, in and of itself, isn't so odd. I suppose the postal service hires temps when it's shorthanded--makes sense. But below that, the magnetic sign said "ACME Services, Inc." and had a phone number. Huh. If it works for 'em...

Bought a TDK VeloCD 12x10x32 burner the other day. Works quite nicely within aforementioned FireWire case. The Yamaha 16x announcement gave me some pause, but it's limited to 12x on the inner tracks, and lacks the highly Boffo (and so poorly named) BURNproof feature. TDK's FailSafe name is much more apt than Sanyo's, IMHO. Still waiting on OS X-native burning software, but I didn't expect anything to be ready this soon, anyway. On the positive side, a Mac port of Nero has been announced.

Shopped around a bit on half.com. I'm really impressed--seems like eBay, only implemented better. Picked up four CDs and a hardcover book for $30, shipped. Also got the latest Gomez release elsewhere... finally includes their cover of "Getting Better", undoubtedly by popular demand.

Got High Fidelity the other day... the deleted scenes on DVD are great.

Hopefully, I'll stop hemorrhaging money soon.

OmniWeb, which has kinda-sorta-maybe grown on me, has no keyboard shortcut for "reload". Feh.

I wonder how Lao-Tzu would approach network security.

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