Category: Real Life

Just learned that Firefox (the 1.5 anyway) is not happy with the theme I use. It’s black-letterhead for anyone interested.

I’ll do some research on fixing it, or look for something else.

–Alan

EDIT: Found it, bad sidebar.php file when adding the Exxoff stuff. I disconnected during the edit, probably that’s what happened.

–Alan

I’ve added a link on the sidebar, to the [Exxoff][EO] site, as I’m participating in the ‘protest.’

Originally found [here][RM].

–Alan

[EO]: http://www.exxoff.com
[RM]: http://wohba.com/2005/10/windfall-relief-project.html

I’m sitting here waiting for the below-mentioned MicroDrive to finish its new format, and a later run with Norton Disk Doctor (if it allows me). Got some errors and trying to diagnose now.

In any event, attempt 4 will be to hijack what music I need onto a 512 Meg thumbdrive. Enough for a couple albums I listen to most, plus a hodgepodge collection to round out the free space.

Last I heard the actual HDD for work should be back this week.

[EDIT: Nope. *sigh* So much for hope. Still rebuilding, scanning, and futzing to try and clean the MD.]

–Alan

I normally would not post about anything remotely related to work, but this is bordering on a funny story and not really related to work per se.

Got hooked on listening to music at night, from co-worker leaving an external disk of his hooked up on the USB. He’s had it sent off to a relative for couple months now, and am getting serious withdrawal.

Not interested in kicking off a remote/Internet stream, as it gets logged and I feel that I’m skirting things as it is with [CGI:IRC][1] (though not as badly, its just a bunch of text). Also, the streams I preferred died due to lack of donations or other funding, or required something like WinAmp or some other player that was *not* the default in a Win2K environment (aka Media Player 9). So, I start to go about getting my own relatively small setup to bring on my own.

Now, one would think that it’s relatively easy to do this. Well, you’d be wrong. I have horrible luck at times…

Attempt 1: 1 Gig USB thumbdrive (fits enough for me to enjoy). I lost it at a Target store within 12 hours of thinking this and loading it with songs. Thanks to that I’m getting [StuffBak][2] tags for the important things, and ordered the second-gen Lexar SecureDrive II so I can also hold important files in encrypted form in case another loss occurs, even while attached to work PCs (thankfully there was nothing important on the damn thing).

Attempt 2: My Camera card (512 CF) and the small USB Reader I bought with it. Well, they’re also MIA at the moment, but known to be in the apartment somewhere anyway so not worried as much.

Attempt 3: A 4 Gig MicroDrive I was able to rip out of a semi-portable USB chassis, for which the normal connector failed (freebie from my father). Though the older reader is still MIA, a secondary was found in the form of the USB floppy drive I bought for my recently aquired SFF case. A bit bulky, but is doing the job OK for now. This begs for a pic, but as I said my Camera Card is missing. :(

Indeed, horrid luck. I’d have used the new notebook, but it will read everything except CF/MD. Figures.

[1]: http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/
[2]: http://www.stuffbak.com/