I am not feeling daylight savings. I’ve spent over 30 years of my life in Indiana, where there is no time change (save a few counties–I spent most of my life in Indianapolis). I don’t know whether DST is beginning or ending. It’s bothersome to have to care. All of these devices that automatically take care of this is confusing [EDIT--i was supposed to, but never wrote about my mobile that supposed to do so--turns out it didn't, and i ended up awake early this morning]. For one, i’d rather not even have to worry about it, set my clock as usual, and get up tomorrow without a care. instead i have to remember which way to turn the clock (my wife tells me it’s backwards).

It seems like such a small thing, but thinking about this makes me really miss home in many other ways.

(as if any of these are relevant?)

more and more, i’m loving scrambled eggs with hot sauce. I put more hotsauce on every day, and it doesn’t even burn me.

i fill up a container as the lady at the Phonecian grill is fixing my food; I keep running out no matter how much more i put in my container each day.

my toddler son likes hot food. over the past 2 days, he’s been sharing flaming hot cheetos with his pops. he sometimes forgets to wipe his hands though, like a child, and accidentally wipes his eyes. yow!

I’m new (again) to Apple.

When in the finder, i had this weird up symbol, the flower key, and “A” to open applications. It’s day three, and i finally figured out what the weird up symbol is. It is the Shift key, which, on the iBook keyboard, is not labeled as such (anymore?). For the past 2 days, I have been attempting to use the up arrow plus apple plus A to give me my Applications folder.

to Apple: duhhh.
to me: duhhh. but i have an excuse. on a “normal” keyboard, i touch type, and probably haven’t really paid attention to the key labels in about 10 years. And yeah as i mentioned, the shift key is “iconless” on the iBook. I just noticed the up arrow icon for the first time on my work (PC) keyboard’s Shift key.

Now all I need to figure out is where the wierd escalator with line on top key is.

I figure, it’s from sams club, maybe it’s something she wants us to pick up this weekend.

http://www.samsclub.com/eclub/viewproduct.jsp?item=880668

I can’t imagine what you’d pay for this elsewhere.

This is so funny. I was sitting with some friends this weekend, and was asking “so this boston curse thing, what is it about anyway, and when do people who believe in it say that it is going to end?”

my boy says “when Boston wins”.

exaaaactly. ha. i truly hope there is noone that exists that actually thought Boston was under a curse. I’m sure cursers (cursors?) are not interested in american baseball.

It has been only one day and i’ve lost my stuff. Thankfully I figured it out enough to recover the “important” stuff.

I shut my case before I headed out from work, and when I got on the bus and opened back up the top, it wouldn’t come back on. After a few button presses, the machine just booted up from scratch (The startup sound is still the same as when I left Macs 7 years ago:). I was greeted upon login with the default desktop! I had apparently lost everything. I had a 1.5 (or maybe 15, i didn’t pay attention, but it was huge) gig jon.sparseimage file sitting there, however. I was able to log in as root, double click on it, enter a password, and it mounted, so i grabbed my files and copied them on top of the existing folders. I then threw away the files sitting in the newly mounted drive.

Well…after logging out and logging in again as myself, I couldn’t access the files due to “insufficient permissions”. I thought my problems may have had to do with setting “FileVault” on–so I attempted to turn it off, but it said I had people logged on and had to be logged off, so before logging off, I opened up a terminal and fixed the permissions problem, logged out, logged back in, and my files were gone. Weird. Good thing i still had the originals in the trash. Switched to root, dragged the files back out of the filesystem into the jon login, modified the permissions, logged out, logged back into my user account, and things seemed to be okay.

It wasn’t ’til I made it home of course that I see that there may have been a more straightforward way to fix this issue.

However, it shouldn’t have even happened in the first place.

Arriving three days early, the iBook is here! Very compact (12-inch model); I’ll be having to get used to a 1024×768 resoulution–I’ve not worked on a screen with this resolution in quite a long while.

Needless to say, it’s a beautiful piece of hardware. the shell on the outside is like my iPod–so i fear it’ll get scratched easily. I dig the design of the AC adapter extension. Apple got design game tight.

I dig the feel of the keyboard–very easy to get used to. I’m having some trouble getting used to a single button mouse, however–there’s no right click to bring up a submenu. I think i’m going to have to spend some time looking at this little manual that came with the iBook–this is quite a bit different for me to navigate around.

I’m installing all sorts of stuff on it now–trying to figure out how to properly do it–i think i figured out this whole “dmg” thing. thing is, there seems to be so much inconsistency on installing apps. some are in folders, some you just drag & drop, some have installers.

When i figure out how to customize my dock (with my preferred apps) i’ll be in business.

More later.

i’m always so late with these–i’m DJing at the Seattle Vineyard tonight for this thing called “Beat Speaks“, a fundraiser for issues of AIDS poverty and hunger in Africa. I’m looking forward to this one. The Seattle Vineyard is right in the U district; it’s easy to find.

speaking of overseas–my iBook has shipped from taiwan! should be here next thursday. woop.

I’m telling you, there is nothing better at work than to learn stuff. Good stuff.

For the longest time, I have been using listeners, with an understanding of the syntax, or how i’d use someone elses, but as to why i would really have one was finally completely illuminated (except for in the obvious case of JMS)–the crazy thing is–i’ve actually known this all along, but there was a connection in my head that wasn’t made between the problem domain and its solution. As my colleague was explaining it, it was like a plug finally went into a socket, and BOOM! aHA! i know precisely why I would want to use the Observer pattern, and, in fact, how to implement it.

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The iBook sale indeed is turning out to be 100% scam; I’ve verified with other users who “won” auctions the same day. What in the world was I thinking, dealing with someone with only 16, and less than 90% feedback–blinded by my own ambition! Oh well, i’m wiser for the wear. When this blows over I’ll give a more detailed story/warning. :)

I ended up ordering one from the Apple Store. I would have walked out with one, but they didn’t have the exact configuration I was looking for. However now that I’ve purchased it, I see that I should probably not get the one I ordered. doh!

I just called Apple to change my order, and they offered $50 off, so hey, i figured i’d just keep my order. :)

Seattlites — remember tonight is the blog meetup — looks like it’s going to be a pizzacked house at Ralphs downtown. word.