Entries from July 2004 ↓

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And… I’ve just made another coaster. My fourth attempt to burn a backup of my stuff has yet again, failed. Lying in the bin, in no particular order, are 4 spanking new Sony CD-Rs. Unusable.

Toast Titanium 6 (the best CD-burner app on the planet?) kept bugging me with a “Medium Error”, just when it needs to do a “lead-out” to close the burning session. This is annoying. And I hate errors which really don’t tell you anything. Like a “Type 1″ error. Or a “Type 2″ error. What the fuck? How’s anyone supposed to know? Might as well just be “I’ve fucked up. It’s not my fault. It’s the system.”

My 1.8 Ghz G5 PowerMac in the office has been intermittently freezing on me. It’s not supposed to do that. It’s supposed to be uncrashable, thanks to its UNIX underpinnings. But, oh no, it has a mind of its own. It thinks it’s Windows of some sort. Hell, even the console startup is like DOS. (Well, at least there isn’t a “blue screen of death”).

I take care of it. I run maintenance scripts frequently. I do an “update_prebinding” to optimise the system. I delete and clear system + user cache. I verify and repair permissions. I do all that is possible to keep the system free of crap and running optimally.

What the heck’s going on?

And you know what’s funny? The G5 I have has a serious problem with Flash memory. Plug in any Flash-based peripherals and files get 100% corrupted. Without fail. And this has happened since upgrading to Panther (Mac OS X 10.3). Panther is quick and superb, but also introduced some nagging bugs with the update.

So, I thought - why not backup all your data then reformat the 120GB SATA drive and do a clean reinstall of the system? Shouldn’t take more than 2 weeks I reckon. But oh no…Toast just had to act up. Doesn’t want to burn a damn thing. Crap.

Don’t you hate it when things don’t work? The worst is when it doesn’t work and you don’t know why. Just spend your whole day figuring out through trial and error what could be causing these anomalies. Grrr… Maybe I should just format the damn thing, for the heck of it. Screw the data. Format and zero all data on the hard drive. Then leave the country.

Case closed.

Help. I am officially a blog-addict. I’ve spent the past half a day reading blogs and posting my own bloggings. Forgive me for I have sinned. I haven’t done any work. Perhaps it’s coz I have no work at this present moment. Which is a good thing really. My mind’s blogged, I mean blocked with thoughts of blog and nothing but.

I’m thinking. Can I live for a day without blogging? A day without IM? Or email?

Tough call really. I rate IM as a necessity. A reason to live. It’s so much part of me, it’s insane to do without it. Much like smoking. Although I quit a little over a year ago. Email too is so much a part of our everyday lives, it’s hard to imagine life without some form of electronic mail. Even spam. Or trojan horses.

Perhaps I can try. Perhaps I can attempt to live one day without email, IM and blogging. Perhaps life could be better. More productive. More social. Not virtually, but for real.

Ok. I’ll start tomorrow.

HAHAHAHAHAH…are you shitting me?

If you haven’t already owned one, or heard of one, listen up. iPod Minis are ready for order. Pop by at Macasia to place your order. Tiny, sleek and very, very cool - the iPod Mini comes in 5 colours (silver is my favourite) and the 4GB should guarantee you hours of listening pleasure.

World news update: iPod Mini sold out in Europe. Sold out in Japan within 2 days of launch.

I want one! Despite a fullsized iPod going for RM1,399 (for the 20GB version), I want the iPod Mini for its sheer coolness factor. Small enough for me to strap it to my arm at the gym. Light enough to fit in my pocket without effort.

How much for this nifty, hip gadget? RM1,199.00. Price doesn’t come smaller than that.