So here I am at the car dealership, waiting on our car to get it’s 60,000 mile service. I fired up the laptop and curled up in the customer lounge to work a little, play a little… and listen to the iPod.
First off, the last podcast from Ask A Ninja is a real scream. Normally I just chuckle at these podcasts, but this one made me laugh out loud. It’s episode #37: Last Words. Watch it… it’s hilarious.
Yes, I’m about to get on a plane again. Emergency trip to a southern coast of the U.S.
I’ve started using Vista for the last month or so of my expected Windows tenure. I thought it would be nice to try to use Vista and write some meditations on it. As I never seem to be able to get anything done in one sitting (or two, for that matter), I’ve decided that you people are mature enough to understand the term “work in progress.” I’ve started the page “Meditations on Vista” and it will be updated when the muse strikes me. Believe me, muses strike me.
Apparently I’m not the only one who has noticed the iSight camera has disappeared. While perusing through my web log analysis for the start of March, I discovered that at least 2 people have used the search term, “what happened to isight” to arrive here.
It’s gone, and that probably means something – but I’ve not been around Apple’s stuff for long. I certainly wouldn’t want to start any excited rumors or anything – but dayum, if they come up with an 8-core Mac Pro that includes an iSight, that’ll fawkin rawk. But dear Goddess, I want a Mac and I want out of this Microsoft hell.
It’s pretty sad when you title a blog post just so you can jog your memory about what you’re going to say, just in case you go onto a long-winded schpeal (sp).
Okie, if you’re an Exchange admin – particularly an Exchange admin – even more particular an Exchange admin of a large enterprise – if you’ve not been paying attention to the disaster that Satan doth bring upon you known as Daylight Saving Time 2007, you should be fired from your job. You should be setting expectations of your users right now. Their calendars are toast, friends. Toast. Those three weeks during the delta period, they are toast.
Somehow, the garbage is still in my sinuses. (plural of that is sinii? uh, no)
My son has been sick the past few days – now I’m sick too. I don’t think the wifey feels all that great either.
And I get to spend the next two days in the data center! Hooray for dry air! Precisely where I want to be while I feel like garbage.
One of the neat things about this 80gb iPod that TaiTai got me for Christmas is… well, the ability to pull down almost my entire library of music.
This has led to a re-enjoying of music that I haven’t listed to in about 20 years. Great stuff.
Today’s selection… Throwing Muses/Red Heaven. Long time, no listen.
I’m on the way home, btw. I’m sitting at DCA, blowing time before jumping on the plane. Lovin it.
So today I had the chance to wander a bit. My friend/coworker picked me up for a ride around town in his very lovely Porsche. We tooled around the capitol a bit and ran in for a quick visit to the Aviation and Space Museum (Smithsonian). What a lovely, lovely treat. We blazed through it pretty quickly but being in the presence of that much Great Stuff is humbling.
I was especially taken aback at the small spaces our astronauts have grown accustomed to for space travel. The capsules and living spaces in Skylab were all extremely claustrophobic. I’m not sure how we’ve been able to come this far with things that have just been… err… passable? I dunno. What we’re capable of is quite amazing.
It’s funny to know that for the first time in my life, I’m setting foot in a state that I’ve often written stories about.
Tonight I arrived in the D.C./northern Virginia area. My hotel is in Alexandria, VA, so I had to jump on the Metro and ride out to there. Unfortunately, I missed my stop and had to turn around and come back up one station.
Then comes the walk. The hotel was actually two blocks away from the Metro station, but I accidentally took a wrong turn and walked about 7 blocks in the wrong direction. Let me tell you – making a walk in the wrong direction in 30’F weather with a brisk wind SUCKS.
Sorry I’ve been quiet the past few days. I didn’t mean to be. But I was.
The major project at work is jumping whole-body in tomorrow. Tomorrow’s D-Day. I’m not worried. Not a bit. That not-worrying is definitely not what kept me awake until 3am last night, especially since I wasn’t working on the migration at all. Not a bit. I also don’t believe in this much negativity.
Coming up this Saturday I have my first trip to D.C. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a hair nervous about it. I’m not nervous about the city or anything – hell, if I can navigate Taipei, I can navigate a large American city. No problem. I guess I’m more nervous about making sure I’m fulfilling expectations. I spend a lot of time wondering if I fulfill expectations. This boils down to the even the tiniest of levels. This weekend, for example, I finally told my wife…
So, Aquatix pointed out (correctly) that the coffee-n-cream theme didn’t have a login button. File that one under WTF.
Part of the reason I keep changing these themes is because I keep finding little items missing. While I like Sapphire significantly, it takes out the blogroll. That sucks because I really want you to visit my friends and I find it pretty important to link to them. File that under Suck.
