Flyover Country

Beep is up and running. I’m typing this entry in on him right now. He’s rather a dog right now. I have a 256MB SODIMM from Sugar Daddy Mac that’s going into him in the near future, but it turns out that I need a phillips head screwdriver the size of a gnat in order [...]

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I have been having a constant low-grade panic attack over Monday since I got the fateful call on Thursday. It’s getting to be a little overwhelming. Every time I think I have been able to just deal with what’s happening I remember the gravity of the situation with Company X and my heart starts flopping [...]

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So I just figured out why iRooster has been so damned popular since Thursday.
Note the URL that this is from.
Holy crap!

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It never rains, it pours.
iRooster appears to have been a featured download on apple.com today. I had several thousand downloads and as many purchases today as I did all last month.
I ordered an ibook from smalldog. It is a stopgap until aluminum 15 inch pbooks come out, and I can afford [...]

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It looks like my 15″ Titanium Powerbook G4, Sugar Daddy Mac, age 21 months, passed away today. Needless to say, I am slightly less than thrilled about this. If anyone can offer some advice on this (i.e. perhaps it’s just mostly dead, to quote Billy Crystal) I would really appreciate it.
Here’s what happened. [...]

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I had an interesting day today. I re-realized that my co-workers absolutely love me for the simple reason that I do the work I’m expected to do. I don’t need supervision, I get stuff done on time, and it works. Apparently this is a big thing.
The second interesting thing that happened to me [...]

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I feel pretty damn good about the changes I made to iRooster today. I finally settled on a new design for the Alarm Editor (a picture of the old design is the link there). It’s a little bit more complex, but not too much. Also, this is rather unavoidable since I’m adding more stuff to [...]

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Is it just my imagination, or does this make absolutely no sense?
pressherald.com: Benson’s program is a modest version of one begun by Maine last year. Maine gave laptops to 17,000 seventh-graders and 3,000 teachers in all the state’s public middle schools. Maine considers the program a success and this year will expand it [...]

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A line from my stats page:
62: 6.72%: dolby.com
life is rather boring at the moment. I discovered today that my productivity goes through the roof when I’m not actually at work. Around 3 yesterday afternoon I attached a “working from home” post-it note to my office and left. I didn’t go [...]

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