CNN has an obit, but they don’t even mention The Wrath of Khan. Wankers.
I know he was 88 and had been ill, but damn, he will be missed. We’ll always remember you as Khan!, Mr Montalban. Nevermind “zee plane!” or “rich Corinthian leather”.
Your work will live on every time we watch Trek. Thank you.
These are from APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA) – a great source for groovy outer space pix. There’s a link to the Pic of the Day over there in the left column. I like to peruse the archives every now and then for cool stuff. These pix were in my desktop pix – as were the flowers from before.
I hope you like them! :-)
Update chat from my BOFH the Weasel:
“the highest number of errors i usually run across, if any, is about 3-5
yours had 150
you’re a lucky woman
you’ve been tap dancing in a mine field for awhile”
It’s a blessing in disguise. Not only will I get a shiny new HD with an OS upgrade, but all my apps will get upgraded, too! Yay!
I’m sure I’ll find plenty of fucked up files when all is done, but all in all, I think I fared well. Even if I’d lost everything, I just had a backup Sunday, so.
Tomorrow I’ll be on a new HD with 10.5.x and other new stuff. I’ll also start running Time Machine on a second drive just as an extra redundant backup. :-)
This is a good time to remind you lazy bitches to BACK YOUR SHIT UP WEEKLY OR AT LEAST MONTHLY. If you’ve got a Mac running 10.5.x, then get an external or internal backup drive and turn Time Machine ON. Time Machine is a very slick backup system. We highly recommend it. (That humming sound better be the sound of cds/dvds being burned for backups…)
Yah, so I’ve had zero issues with my hard drive, but last night Nick decides to do some dvd ripping on my Mac. That intensive hard drive work revealed some serious issues with my hard drive. Since most of my work is online, I don’t use my hard drive as much as, say, someone who designs and saves all day or whatnot. My usage habits have been hiding some really fubar problems.
So, last night after Stormy leaves, I learn that my hard drive is barely alive and it was a miracle that Nick got all my shit off it. Big thanks to my Weasel for staying up late to babysit the data transfer. ::smooch::
I’m running off the backup drive today. I will get the menu job out on time. I’m damn glad it’s the only active project I have with all this shit going on.
My email client is completely hammered. It’s gonna take a lot of work to get that mess straightened out. I can still get email, of course, but my local client? I’ll probably toss most of the emails in there and start relatively fresh. If you’ve sent anything important between yesterday afternoon and 10am this morning, you might want to send it again just to be safe.
Yah, nice way to start the day: a dead hard drive, fucked up email and Aunt Flo! Wow, the trifecta. >:-(
Needless to say, you should probably just avoid me for a day or two.
::low growl in throat::
Last night and today has been a grand experiment with Joomla! the content management system (CMS) that I’ve been seeing more and more of lately. [To clarify my geekspeak: WordPress is a CMS that bloggers use. So is LiveJournal, MySpace, FaceBook and other online services. The difference is that WordPress and Joomla! are things that are installed on MY server, whereas the online stuff is, well, ONLINE. And Joomla! positions itself as a business CMS more than a blog one.]
To start, the installer is completely fubar. Doesn’t work. And it’s been this way for a couple of updates. It took several hours of futzing, calling ITX (my hosting co.) for help then Nick trolling the Joomla! support forums to find out what was wrong. Then as I trolled around today, looking for templates, I realise there are no templates worth a shit for this thing. And the ones that are out there are worse to tweak than my good ole Cutline (WP template) I use here.
On top of all these usability issues, the app is pretty hackable. Granted, this is normal for an open source application when it’s new, but with all its problems, I just can’t believe people are using this application for businesses. It’s NOT ready for that. Not even close!
I think that WordPress is still the best CMS all ’round. Nick just put up a restaurant site with it and it works brilliantly!
So if you have been contemplating a CMS for a blog or small business, I encourage you to look into WordPress and SKIP Joomla! for now. It’s still too young and untested.
