Friday, June 21, 2002
Issue 2 of Lodestar Quarterly went live at about 8:17 AM today. Got a weird error today while booting Cindy's old computer that she brought in from home. It's a Compaq Deskpro 4000. The error upon booting was "SMART hard drive detects imminent failure" and all I could think was, "How Star Trek, but where are the red room lights and the annoying beeping-buzzing sounds?" The Web indicated that this essentially means your hard drive has died, but I pressed F1 to boot and it appeared to start up Windows 98 after running Scandisk. It was the old style DOS-based Scandisk (or was this called chkdsk then?) with the map—kinda fun to see again after so many years. Chatted with David Powers—he needs a consultant for a Web site he's working on. I told him I'm swamped but I'd check around to see if anyone else I knew wanted to do it. Today I installed Mozilla 1.0 on recommendation from my pal Steve Miles who liked that you can turn off popup windows in it. While saving changed preferences in it, I got a weird error: "unable to convert stored data". I couldn't figure out what it meant—there was essentially nothing on the Web about this error except for a wallet properties source file which explained nothing. Oh, well. Worked on stylesheets and Mozilla 1.0 (aka Netscape 5.0). Dinner at home with Patrick: homemade chicken pho.