I bought a 200Gb hard drive ($141 with a $40 mail in rebate) and a USB external enclosure ($15). The idea was that I would have a hard drive that I could use as a backup for the 80Gb drive on the server, and also have some semi-portable storage so I could give Kodak back the 200Gb firewire drive I sort-of appropriated from them.
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Category: Rant
Is that so hard?
I have an iPod. It stores 20Gb of music. I also have about 80Gb of music on my hard drive. All I want is a way to put certain select music on the iPod, and then fill the rest with random music selected from that hard drive. Ok, as an added complication, the hard drive lives on a Linux box, and is NFS mounted on the Mac that drives the iPod. That shouldn’t matter, should it? It’s a fast network link (100Mbps) and goes through a switch instead of a hub.
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Movie review (no spoilers)
I went to see “The Bourne Supremacy” today. Not a bad movie, except almost the whole damn movie was filmed with hand-held cameras. Everything was jerky, most of it was out of focus, and so quickly cut that you couldn’t see what was going on during any action scene – and there were a lot of action scenes. I came out with a headache. But in spite of that, I thought it was a pretty decent sequel to “The Borne Identity”.
Has anybody else noticed that Matt Damon has a really weird nose in profile?
Still not enjoying these glasses
Ok, I’ve had the glasses, what, five days now? I still notice a big improvement in my ability to read small type on my computer screen or a page in front of me. But I can’t wear them if I need to switch between near and far, because they don’t work as well in the “down on the nose” position, and if I look far through them, it’s like my eyes grind their gears as they try to switch. And when I wear them for long periods of looking at the screen, my eyes get very dry, as if I were staring. And if my eyes get dry, they seem to get gunk in them and get cloudy until I rub them.
This sucks. I want my young eyes back.
Cause and Effect
I’m listening to two guys in the next cubicle discuss boolean logic in our product. I’m innately interested in this topic, because I wrote the logic engine. The two guys talking are the guy responsible for presenting the choices to the user and generating the appropriate XML, and the guy responsible for taking the XML after it has been transmitted to the remote sites and stuffing the values into the database so that my logic engine can use that information. Two computer scientists, probably with degrees in computer science, discussing something that is at the very core of computer science. And like everybody else in this office except me, they’re getting it wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong. And I’m wondering if I’m going to have to run over there and smack one or both of them until they get it right.
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