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hrjIt really does feel like a new year has started at last. On Saturday I went off to the Crosston Ball and played dance music on the harp all evening (as well as getting some dancing in during the teaching sessions).
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scotica came over to lend moral support (or, actually, to watch in amusement, perhaps) while I dealt with the Apple Store over my dead Time Capsule. (For really amusing take on the problem, check out the Time Capsule Memorial Register web site. Oh, and they'll be replacing my dead Time Capsule for free. But I found the lack of an abject apology for crappy hardware to be unsatisfactory. After that, I took advantage of having scotica's laptop-with-firewire-connection available and retrieved a number of files off one of my external hard drives (now that I no longer have a device that talks Firewire). I have more external drives than I know what to do with at the moment ... except that none of them is of practical use at the moment. I'm going to swap the hard drive from the dead iMac into a usb enclosure to use as a backup-for-the-backup. I may see about swapping one or both of the Firewire hard drives into a usb enclosure for the mean time as well. Then after the computer stuff, we went back to her place to assemble some garage shelving.
This evening I've been making good on my resolution to get all my currently-purchased software and peripherals installed before going off to MacWorld and buying new stuff. Ok, the actual form of the resolution was, "I will install all the software I bought at last year's MacWorld before attending this year's MacWorld." But there was also the new Turbo Tax to install. This has been a useful exercise. I'd been muttering about wanting to try to find a decent media file cataloging program to manage my image files ... only to discover that the Microsoft Office 2008 package I'd bought last year (and not installed yet) included the Expression Media cataloging software. So I'll give that a shot before shopping for anything else.
So now I'm trying to remember what the other two things were I said I was going to keep an eye out for at MacWorld. One was definitely a largish-screen monitor (since I've decided to go the laptop-and-monitor route rather than replacing the iMac). One was the media cataloging software, which I guess isn't as critical. What was the third? Oh, and I may allow myself to splurge on an Optoma Piko PK-101 Pocket Projector for iPhone which is just the cutest little thing and has been bookmarked in my "Computer Shopping" folder for about a year now. But I don't think that was the third thing.
Sunday
scotica came over to lend moral support (or, actually, to watch in amusement, perhaps) while I dealt with the Apple Store over my dead Time Capsule. (For really amusing take on the problem, check out the Time Capsule Memorial Register web site. Oh, and they'll be replacing my dead Time Capsule for free. But I found the lack of an abject apology for crappy hardware to be unsatisfactory. After that, I took advantage of having scotica's laptop-with-firewire-connection available and retrieved a number of files off one of my external hard drives (now that I no longer have a device that talks Firewire). I have more external drives than I know what to do with at the moment ... except that none of them is of practical use at the moment. I'm going to swap the hard drive from the dead iMac into a usb enclosure to use as a backup-for-the-backup. I may see about swapping one or both of the Firewire hard drives into a usb enclosure for the mean time as well. Then after the computer stuff, we went back to her place to assemble some garage shelving.This evening I've been making good on my resolution to get all my currently-purchased software and peripherals installed before going off to MacWorld and buying new stuff. Ok, the actual form of the resolution was, "I will install all the software I bought at last year's MacWorld before attending this year's MacWorld." But there was also the new Turbo Tax to install. This has been a useful exercise. I'd been muttering about wanting to try to find a decent media file cataloging program to manage my image files ... only to discover that the Microsoft Office 2008 package I'd bought last year (and not installed yet) included the Expression Media cataloging software. So I'll give that a shot before shopping for anything else.
So now I'm trying to remember what the other two things were I said I was going to keep an eye out for at MacWorld. One was definitely a largish-screen monitor (since I've decided to go the laptop-and-monitor route rather than replacing the iMac). One was the media cataloging software, which I guess isn't as critical. What was the third? Oh, and I may allow myself to splurge on an Optoma Piko PK-101 Pocket Projector for iPhone which is just the cutest little thing and has been bookmarked in my "Computer Shopping" folder for about a year now. But I don't think that was the third thing.
