Since this whole “9-11” thing started, I’ve been completly uninterested in updating this blog. I don’t know what is the cause … mine and I think everyone’s feelings are so crazy the moment. I’m starting to be concerned about this turning into an Xtian vs. Muslim holy war also.
All of these antrax cases are starting to scare me. My girlfriend’s employer (a nursing home) has a nice stock of Ciprol. Maybe I could have her “borrow” a little for me? :P Not that it would help much.

I ordered an Oppala chair from Ikea. Pretty comfortable.

My Athlon 1.13ghz overclocked to 1.32 pretty easily and would prolly go much higher with better cooling. I’d like to upgrade to an Athlon XP asap. No real reason, just on a power benge.

I’m out of a job again at the end of the month: my contract at Duke ends. If you’re interested in a web site from me, please email me. Quotes are based on the project, so be descriptive. Full time positions in the Charlotte, NC area are very welcome also.

I keep watching CNN in the mornings and they seems to always ask: “When will we get back to normal?” I don’t know about the rest of the US, but the people around me seem about there now. We still see movies and we’re a bit miffed at some of the movie cancellations. Steven bought a new car yesterday. I bought a new monitor Tuesday. Casey still hates her job. Ben still talks on the phone all the time. We still watch sports. The only thing different is that we know we will be at war soon. Life does and will go on, and it seems that the media is trying to slow it down so we don’t forget to watch the news.
I don’t think that pacifism is a good answer to this situation. Here is a great take on it.

The new apple TiBook (and iBook) are really electric! According to users on this thread, the caseing is electrically live! I’ve felt a tingle while touching the power cord myself.

I’m out of a job again at the end of the month: my contract at Duke ends. If you’re interested in a web site from me, please email me. Quotes are based on the project, so be descriptive. Full time positions in the Charlotte, NC area are very welcome also.

From Pixel Surgeon // Holy Fucking Shit The Onion has a number of interesting articles relating to the WTC. Well worth a read if you’re in for an evil laugh.

I installed XP on a 4+ year old PentiumPro 200mhz with 128 megs of ram and a Matrox Millennium PCI graphics card. Just to test the minimum system requirements, you see. It works! With all of the chrome on, the gui is just as slow as OS X 10.1 on the new iBook! I guess that’s an “acceptable” speed, right?
I need new video drivers for the Gateway. It should speed up a lot then.

The weather this am is just perfect! Just like fall.

I “acquired” a copy of Windows XP Pro for my Gateway Solo and OS X 10.1 for my iBook. The design of the iBook is beautiful and the Aqua interface is great but it’s still too damned slow. There needs to be a way to turn off the chrome so it’ll run faster. If not having drop shadows on my windows means they will resize in realtime, so be it. WinXP’s Luna looks ok, but they should have redesigned all of their icons. If you dig down, there a still a lot of the older icons which look really unprofessional against the newer Icon Factory ones. Resizing windows is a bit slower than with Win2k but the overall system speed (and boot) is greately improved. But, with Windows, you can turn off all of the chrome and get an ugly, but fast gui. Idealy, a combination of the Aqua + Luna gui would be great, and if products like DesktopX and WindowBlinds are any indication, we might have it soon.
I did a standard Photoshop filter test (new image 10″x10″x300dpi, fill with noise, radial blur on max). Even after I increased the memory allocated to Pshop in OS 9.2.1, the little P3 600 Gateway beat it by ~10 seconds. I thought G3 500’s were supposed to be like 900mhz P3’s?

Is Afghanistan the next Vietnam? An excellent piece on the Register. But, if the media coverage continues like it is (non stop 24 hours on every TV and radio channel/station) we will get bored with it before anything happens.

I’m becoming increasingly worried at the potential loss of freedom in the US. All of these measures to help combat terrorism will eventually be used on the people of the US. We were losing our privacy gradually before and now it seems it’ll be taken away with a backhoe. I’m also worried that Georgie will try to reinstate the draft. A Very Bad Thing.

The weather today is so great! It’s cool, the highs are expected in the 70’s and the sun is bright. I’m going to the fair today: maybe an escape to Ashville will be a Good Thing. New MP3’s tomorrow night.

All of this week, I’ve found MetaFilter to be extremely invaluable.

undoCulture is up, but there isn’t anything there yet.

Charlotte seems quiet. As I walked downtown yesterday, the only thing I heard was cars. No one seemed to be speaking, laughing or arguing. There faces seemed to convey a look of shock, horror and anger. The only thing that seems to be on people minds are: help the victims then leave a crispy hole where Afghanistan was. Or maybe it’s just me.

The Taleban’s web site shows the FBI’s wanted poster for Usama Bin Laden. Doesn’t look like they are supporting him.

Coming soon: Undo_Culture. Artistic thoughts on all of this.

I woke up this morning still feeling like I was dreaming. Let’s hope yesterday was the end of the attacks.
The * portals are doing a great job with news updates. Cheers to Pixelsurgeon and Surfstation.

The Empire State Building web cam. Looks like the fires are still buring.

Ok, there is some seriously Bad Stuff happening in the US this am. Who ever is resposible for this will most likely not be around much longer. I feel sick.
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I work at Duke Power in Charlotte, NC. We havn’t been evacuated or anything, but I feel we should in some way … we could be a target? How many others feel this way in other cities. Both Bank of America and First Union evacuated their towers in downtown. (I’m at work now btw).

Tips to remember when designing a corporate technology site: if in doubt, add a tab navigation system. If that didn’t work, add a tree menu (like Microsoft). If that doesn’t work, just copy Microsoft. Blah.

Someone figured out a way to record and track your mouse movements over a page. They can “read” your movements. Ooooh. Guess we can start screwing up their data collection in new ways. “C’mon we know you wanted to shock the monkey! Your cursor was over it for 5 seconds.”

Mac OS9 has the ability to burn cd’s built into the os. I couldn’t get Toast to work yesterday and I discovered this ability. Weren’t people getting pissed at Microsoft for including this same thing into XP?

Robbie updates Hey Revolver! Check out the photos. Vena‘s got something new on his site as well.

Pseudoroom. Veeery niiice.

I saw IBM’s cheese commercial. Very funny.