Friday, November 26, 2004

Pumpkin pie with whipped cream for breakfast. Read WiReD magazine. Lunch at home by myself: burger made with cheddar and leftover turkey, leftover mashed potatoes and gravy. I found the fortune I lost a couple days ago in my jacket pocket. It says: Confucius says: Gort Klatu - Barada - Nicto. Dinner at home with Patrick: turkey burgers with cheddar, tortilla chips, leftover mashed potatoes and gravy. I bought a new hard drive online for the new server. In the process of migrating my passwords to KeePass I discovered that I accidentally hadn't been checking the 2nd e-mail address I use for making online purchases. I can't remember when I had set that address up, but it must have been at least a year ago. I had about 800 e-mail messages—13 megabytes worth. Downloaded them all, then sorted through them. Bulk-erased some old hard drives. Reworked pinouts on the Antec EasyUSB drive bay (which lets me put a 3.5" hard drive and 2 USB ports in a 5.25" bay) to match the motherboard I'm using for the server I'm building. Read WiReD magazine. After not having read a hardcopy of WiReD for what must be years it feels weird to me. It's as though someone said, "We need more cool-looking-but-information-poor infographics for every article!" It pleases me some that there seem to be fewer ads for booze, but the whole thing now seems like a giant tech-gadget buyer's guide without good review content. Someone might have a need for that, but not me. The only reason we have this copy is because Patrick wanted the Creative Commons music CD that was included with the magazine. I guess we could have gotten the tracks for free online, but it's always nice having a master.