On a Northwest flight headed for Minneapolis as I write this.. plane is totally packed, but I’m in row 6-F so things should do well.
I wa wondering for the past forty-eight hours if I’d actually be able to make the damn flight - with the weather, snow, and all that jazz. But fate has interesting turns and now I’m flying to Minneapolis.
Wheee…
Blogging will be light, some 18 hour days ahead here…
I need a better backup strategy. I last backed up my laptop in September when I bought the CDRW drive.. my sites and db aren’t backed up very often either.
It’s time to bite the bullet and buy the damn tape rack.
Backups For Personal Servers. So, as a followup to yesterday’s post, it appears that minbar’s hard-drive has shit itself quite nicely, and will have… [Derek's Rantings and Musings]
There’s alot of fucking snow out there right now.
Took about ninety minutes to get the car free today. Loads of fun. Pictures up in the usual place.
Northeast Digs Out After Blizzard. Snowdrifts across the Northeast were several feet high today following one of the worst snow storms in decades. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
I love the concept of tablet PCs.. Can’t wait to land (I’m on a plane as I write this) and check out what NEC is cooking up.
I really think we’re a few years away from a tablet PC that actually does what we’re going to want it to do.. right now, I get what I want out of my compaq Ipaq, but it’s not truly wireless, and I can’t type on it without dragging along the keyboard. But it is pretty slick 
I’m a patient man…
Welcome Mac fans! Some rumor sites have pointed to me this morning and boy, what flow!
Hey, Mac fans, drool over the new NEC Tablet, introduced this morning:
PCWorld: “NEC Shows off 2-Pound Tablet PC.”
TabletPCTalk: “NEC Versa LitePad Exclusive Coverage.”
TabletPCTalk is tracking other stuff about the NEC on its home page.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]
If I did this right, Simon should get a ping back on this…
Pingback. Cool, looks like ASP.NET WebLogs are going to get pingback and trackback support soon. [Simon Fell]
I wallpapered the office today….
I woke up with a need to find new wallpaper, and with 2 monitors at home and 2 at work, my work was cut out for me. Here’s some links to rockin’ sweet new wallpapers from my friend at Panic, Steven Frank.
http://www.prevision.dk/photo.html
http://mandolux.com/
http://www.veer.com/ideas/wallpaper/
http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/desktops.html
The new wallpaper (seen at right) I’m using is here.
(Cultural note: If she’s meant to represent a woman of Islamic faith, it’s possibly not accurate since: 1. Her green eyes are probably contacts. 2. Most devout Mulsim women who wear burkas avoid eye makeup. 3. The text is in an english font that harkens to the Devanagari scripts, which are Northern Indian and Indo-Aryan, not Hamito-Semitic like Arabic.)
[Scott Hanselman's Weblog]
Bob Frankston on Boston Driving.
If you donāt drive in Boston you arenāt really here, youāre just visiting. Boston driving is like the Internet ö you have to take responsibility for your own survival and not rely on the benevolence of those between points A and B. Why do you think the end-to-end principle was developed here! Of course, now that I-90 goes to Logan even a visitor can find it. They gave both direction of the Ted Williams Tunnel the same name! It was so much fun to see people looking for the Sumner Tunnel which they took from the airport since you have to take the Callahan to get back. Ever since they changed the rules to give priority to cars leaving the traffic circle weāve lost the edge. And requiring all cars to stop at stop signs ö what a waste. It wasnāt that way when I took my driving test (really ö 2nd and 3rd cars didnāt have to stop).
Just get a car, close your eyes and enjoy the experience. Just remember that green means proceed with caution, yellow means accelerate and red means look both ways for cops.
[Scripting News]
