Author name: Arcterex

(Non)Powerbook Monday

In theory, on the truck from the Bellingham office this afternoon, arriving at 2pm. I still say I’ll believe it when I see it. Fingers crossed though. Update: Not today. Apparently they installed everything clean and one of the powerbooks has some white spots on the screen or something, and the other is crashing and […]

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Cat Update

We took the new kitten into the vet on Saturday, as well as Rex. We too her (“Patches”? maybe, undecided if that’s a good name) in to get her sneezing checked out and basically just make sure that she was in good shape. I wanted to get Rex’s eye looked at again to see if

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Photo Swap Meet

One of the things I did this weekend was to go to a Photography swap meet by Lougheed Mall with dad. It was pretty neat, hundreds of people and probably 50 tables with photo stuff. Everything from ancient (and horribly expensive) Leica‘s to relatively new Pentax MZ-5 and MZ-6. Along with that were the microscopes,

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Ease in Vacuuming

When I saw Richie’s post about how he got an automated roomba Robotic Floorvac I was interested… get ’em at costco, not clean, heck, it does hardwood it says, so I could let it loose in the apartment and not worry about dust and cat hair…. But then I read about how smart they are

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Powerbook Update

Well, the latest word is “Monday”. All I can say is “I’ll believe it when I see it” 🙂 I guess in a way anticipation does make the heart grow fonder, or something like that. Sadly I can’t blame $newboss, as he’s waiting for his new computer as anxiously as myself and $othercoder are. Oh

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The 800lb Gorilla Theory

<a href=”href=”http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/”>Diego has a great quote that I couldn’t help repeating here in his latest bout of Microsoft love (well, not really). […]So, news flash, Microsoft: you are not the underdog. You are not even the proverbial 800-pound Gorilla. You are the only Gorilla left because all the other Gorillas are dead and you have

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Gnome-blog

This is a test of Gnome-blog, a simple blog posting tool for Gnome. It isn’t that bad either. No support for a category though. Maybe I’ll try to hack that in this weekend. This took about 20 minutes to type because I have a sleeping kitten on my arm I don’t want to disturb and

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New Household Addition

Well, I’ve waited far too long to post this, and let the cat out of the bag so to speak, so here you go. We got another kitten. Yup, really. Just to disway the nay-sayers, no, it wasn’t planned, no we’re not crazy, yes, we did “have” to, yes, that makes four, yes, it‘s starting

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