Goings-on

Laptop
I managed to splash my laptop with water; drying it overnight seems to have worked. The only thing that seems to be broken is the Caps Lock indicator, which could get confusing. Juli points out this is a sign I should get out more with the laptop; I agree.

Work
Business is both too slow and too hectic. I really need to start shifting my circle of work into a more high-paying, less cheap-web-work direction. The more web work I do, the more it digs a rut on my resume.

FreeBSD
Now that mono sort-of-works on FreeBSD, I have switched to it from Fedora as I said I would. Not that you could tell from my desktop; the only end-user-visible problem is a distinct lack of native browser plugins. For now I'm viewing Flash and Java on the iMac.

Television
I find I'm watching less TV than I used to. Now I mainly stick to my favorite shows (Stargate SG-1/Atlantis, Good Eats, Adult Swim). One of these days I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get a TiVo.

Vonage
I figured out that most of my cell phone bill is dominated by lengthy incoming calls, so I signed up for a cheap VOIP plan from Vonage to supplant my cell phone. For $15 a month I get free incoming calls and 500 outgoing minutes.

Juli
Today, Juli got a camera and a job offer. She actually asked me for permission to buy the camera; I told her that she could as long as she started a photo-blog :-)

Goings-on

Laptop
I managed to splash my laptop with water; drying it overnight seems to have worked. The only thing that seems to be broken is the Caps Lock indicator, which could get confusing. Juli points out this is a sign I should get out more with the laptop; I agree.

Work
Business is both too slow and too hectic. I really need to start shifting my circle of work into a more high-paying, less cheap-web-work direction. The more web work I do, the more it digs a rut on my resume.

FreeBSD
Now that mono sort-of-works on FreeBSD, I have switched to it from Fedora as I said I would. Not that you could tell from my desktop; the only end-user-visible problem is a distinct lack of native browser plugins. For now I'm viewing Flash and Java on the iMac.

Television
I find I'm watching less TV than I used to. Now I mainly stick to my favorite shows (Stargate SG-1/Atlantis, Good Eats, Adult Swim). One of these days I'm going to have to bite the bullet and get a TiVo.

Vonage
I figured out that most of my cell phone bill is dominated by lengthy incoming calls, so I signed up for a cheap VOIP plan from Vonage to supplant my cell phone. For $15 a month I get free incoming calls and 500 outgoing minutes.

Juli
Today, Juli got a camera and a job offer. She actually asked me for permission to buy the camera; I told her that she could as long as she started a photo-blog :-)