It's only 1:30 PM?!

This has been one of my most productive days in recent history... how can it only be just after lunch still? I usually need until 10 PM to get this much done.

I've caught up on a tonne o' email owed to various people, restored a bunch of files to a hard drive, sorted a number of other files both digital & paper, updated my laptop with some additional square dance music, started backups of a number of workstations, downloaded a tonne o' files, distributed newsletters for our local civic association, replaced the furnace filter and assisted kent4str and cuyahogarvr in cleaning out the house eavestroughs/gutters.

I even found time to put on clothes before doing any of this! I totally rawk! :-)

As I write this, I'm catching up on some podcasts and doing a fresh install of Solaris 10 on one of my spare Linux machines. Before the weekend is out, I'm hoping to play a little with making a Solaris jumpstart server as that appears to be a weak spot in my current résumé. I wish I had sufficient equipment to build a small SAN too but that's out of my budgetary reach currently.

It's only 1:30 PM?!

This has been one of my most productive days in recent history... how can it only be just after lunch still? I usually need until 10 PM to get this much done.

I've caught up on a tonne o' email owed to various people, restored a bunch of files to a hard drive, sorted a number of other files both digital & paper, updated my laptop with some additional square dance music, started backups of a number of workstations, downloaded a tonne o' files, distributed newsletters for our local civic association, replaced the furnace filter and assisted kent4str and cuyahogarvr in cleaning out the house eavestroughs/gutters.

I even found time to put on clothes before doing any of this! I totally rawk! :-)

As I write this, I'm catching up on some podcasts and doing a fresh install of Solaris 10 on one of my spare Linux machines. Before the weekend is out, I'm hoping to play a little with making a Solaris jumpstart server as that appears to be a weak spot in my current résumé. I wish I had sufficient equipment to build a small SAN too but that's out of my budgetary reach currently.

RIP PDA

My Palm Tungsten E has died.

The circumstances of its death are a little mysterious. It was working well this morning. While it is nearly always attached to my belt, I found it to be cumbersome when I was crawling face-down on the eaves of our room, cleaning out the eavestroughs this afternoon so I tossed it gently down to ground level where kent4str caught it and passed it to cuyahogarvr. Later, when cleaning out one of the ground-level drains, it fell from cuyahogarvr's pocket. Still, the beastie was working competently immediately after this abuse. Two hours later, however, it became unresponsive.

Fortunately, I have an older E2 in storage which, while suffering hardware problems of its own, at least is functional. I've transfered my data to the E2 so I'm back in business. Better yet, I found an auction with only minutes to spare on eBay for another E2 at a reasonable price. While the price was bid up dramatically in the last couple of minutes, I still won it for $60.

I love my PDAs: they've served me very well over the years. Being an information freak, it delights me to have many years of back data available, as well as immediate answers for planning queries for years to come. I just wish I had gigs more RAM in the beast so I didn't have to carry a flash drive with me for larger documents.

RIP PDA

My Palm Tungsten E has died.

The circumstances of its death are a little mysterious. It was working well this morning. While it is nearly always attached to my belt, I found it to be cumbersome when I was crawling face-down on the eaves of our room, cleaning out the eavestroughs this afternoon so I tossed it gently down to ground level where kent4str caught it and passed it to cuyahogarvr. Later, when cleaning out one of the ground-level drains, it fell from cuyahogarvr's pocket. Still, the beastie was working competently immediately after this abuse. Two hours later, however, it became unresponsive.

Fortunately, I have an older E2 in storage which, while suffering hardware problems of its own, at least is functional. I've transfered my data to the E2 so I'm back in business. Better yet, I found an auction with only minutes to spare on eBay for another E2 at a reasonable price. While the price was bid up dramatically in the last couple of minutes, I still won it for $60.

I love my PDAs: they've served me very well over the years. Being an information freak, it delights me to have many years of back data available, as well as immediate answers for planning queries for years to come. I just wish I had gigs more RAM in the beast so I didn't have to carry a flash drive with me for larger documents.