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LJ style update
Sep. 4th, 2003 11:55 pmI've reverted back to my comfy old rut for the moment, but the S2 system does seem to have some shiny bits that I need to explore further. Unfortunately now is not the night to stay up way past my bedtime learning about them, as I work at 7 tomorrow. On the other hand, I'm not working this weekend, which leaves me with all kinds of free time to learn about it then. For my convenience, here's a link to the LJ Customize page, where I keep going to explore this stuff.
( Boring notes to self regarding LJ style crap )Oh, and before I forget: many thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
jmpava for helping me with default page stuff, accessible via the former link and the "browse options" links on many a default page. Also big thanks to Peter for helping me find the Customize Journal page. Whee?
It is so definitely bedtime now.
I'll spare you the self-flagellatory details, but what you need to know is this: I killed my Palm. The good news is I'd backed up most of my memos and hadn't been using the Palm much lately since getting Spiffy (more on that later), but I'm still feeling kind of brain-fried, like the time I lost my notebook in Rome (wah). Anyway, if you want me to have your contact information, birthday, etc., send me email or fill out the following poll (results viewable only by me for your privacy and convenience):
( Ack! Help me recover lost data! )
Besides my address book, the only really critical thing I lost was a bunch of lists, including more or less everything I'd read this year so far (big page counts, woo!) and my big lists of books and movies to read and see, and my lists of good gifts for people, so I made another little poll about that last (this one's publically viewable, for everyone's amusement and edification):
[Poll #149210]Finally, I'm going to contact Palm to see if there's any way to recover my data, but in the meantime I'm taking suggestions for turning Spiffy the iBook into yet another data storage point, preferably one I can back up to and from my Palm (hopefully another Palm V, when I'm feeling rich enough). What kind of hardware and software do I need (besides the adaptor that makes it so I can actually connect the Palm to Spiffy)? In particular, I really liked my big bad listkeeper program for the Palm (I think it was called Handy Shopper 2?) so if anybody can point me in the direction of something along those lines for OS X, that would be great. Ok, thanks in advance, kids!
Okay, so Peter (pmb)'s dad got an iBook last fall, after his epic cross-country bicycle ride, to write about the experience in a highly portable way. Then he started a job that wasn't even remotely iBook-compatible, and the laptop started frustrating him more and more. He mentioned this last month when he was in town for the Crater Lake ski trip, and we mentioned that we'd been wanting to get me a laptop for some time. A deal was struck wherein he'd give us the iBook if we procured for him a laptop that he could use at work, and long story short, I have a new computer. It's very exciting.
I've already had my first "cat walks on laptop" attack, and I'm thinking I should suck it up and reinstall OS X and start from scratch before I get too much more comfortable playing around with all the already-existant settings and suchforth. Anybody who wants to give me Os X advice should post comments now. Whee! I've got a big stack of disks for v.10.1.4 and the v.10.2 upgrade. It's party time.
