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I’ve been remiss

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I’ve not been post­ing around here in a while and mostly it’s been do to a lack of *umpf*. The way work’s been going of late has strongly dis­cour­aged my cre­ative urges and since I have no desire to get dooced I can’t really talk about that much. I’ve been doing some job hunt­ing but that’s slow going as there aren’t too many jobs around here that I’m qual­i­fied for and that wouldn’t totally suck (e.g. 2nd shift & a pay-cut).

Still, life isn’t all bad. Ariesna and I are get­ting mar­ried in a lit­tle over a month from now¹ and I’ve got all the parts of my out­fit. That’s right no sim­ple tux for me but rather a mod­ern kilt with a for­mal jacket and all the trim­mings. I’ve tried the lot on and you’ll have to for­give me but I think it looks rather sharp. :)

Also, I’ve been secretly work­ing on a theme for WP 1.5 so when I upgrade this site; it’ll be all shiny and new. I’m hold­ing off on the upgrade cur­rently while I wait for some WP plu­gin devel­op­ers make 1.5 ver­sions of their stuff, though I’ve also started look­ing at alter­na­tive plu­g­ins as well.

Other than that, the only vaguely inter­est­ing thing to report is my iPod appears to have gone insane. For a while there, I couldn’t get it to work prop­erly with iTunes and a quick peek through the Apple sup­port forums con­vinced me to try an Adaptec Fire­con­nect 4300 PCI firewire card. That worked for a while but then Win­dows started blue-screening when I con­nected the iPod though occa­sion­ally it would work if the iPod was con­nected when I booted into Win­dows. Even­tu­ally, that stopped work­ing but I was able to get it work with gtk­pod under Linux but now even that seems to no longer work. I’ve not found any­body else with the exact same prob­lems as I from some rather intense googling. Dur­ing my last test, it looks like my Linux sys­tem got stuck in a loop try­ing to access the iPod; so I’ll be dig­ging through my old receipts and see­ing pre­cisely how long ago I bought it as I did buy the extended war­ranty on it from Best Buy when I picked it up. I’m cross­ing my fig­ures that I’m still w/in the war­ranty period and they’ll replace it for me. That would be pretty schweet if it hap­pens. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see for now.

¹ If you feel up to the whole gift-giving thing; we’re reg­is­tered at Dillard’s, Kohl’s, Tar­get, Wal­mart and Amazon.com.

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