I stopped by Wil’s blog today and he had something about not having posted anything in over a week. I’m basically in the same boat here, but you probably knew that already, if indeed you still bother to check to see what I have to say. My aunt had a hemoragitic stroke on Election day and was comatose for the better part of a week. Between that and trying to make a super huge deadline for the nate I’ve hardly had the time nor energy to do anything at all.

It’s been a while. I finally found a beginning bass lessons website that’s actually worth using. Now all I need is more cowbell.

A lot of the blogs that I like to read have been rather short on content lately. I guess everyone’s busy. I’ve been busy too. I’m so busy it’s not even funny, and I seem to be getting busier all the time. The network is getting better at work. The new guy we hired found a bunch of things at the layer 2 level that had been misconfigured by a former admin and causing huge performance losses.

HP is rather disappointing lately. When I bought my iMac I got a $99 rebate on an HP printer. I chose a PSC 1350. The PSC means Printer/Scanner/Copier. But it doesn’t install correctly. I spent a few hours researching why and I eventually found out that it just flat doesn’t work if the hard disk is UNIX formatted. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. I understand why though, it has to do with resource forks and the fact that all of their helper applications are Carbon.

I was talking to Kristin last night about UNIX. I’ve realized for a while now that it’s not Linux that I’m so in love with. It’s UNIX. The only reason Linux is (or ever was) any good to me is because it’s based on the UNIX design. But I’m much more indifferent to the UNIX type just so long as it’s actually UNIX. Sorry OpenGroup guys, but I even love UNIX knockoffs that don’t comply, haven’t been tested or didn’t pay for the Single UNIX Specification.