Tragedy has struck.
My MacBook Pro died on Friday, June 22nd, 2007. At 6:04 pm, as I rushed to my French final, I realized that I had left her on top of my friend’s car. He had peeled off moments before. She was run over by his back tire, as well as both right tires of another vehicle. The funeral will be Wednesday at 4pm.
All is well that ends well, I suppose. I bought a new one today. Putting all my crap back on is…frustrating to say the least. Here’s where my opinion comes in. So Mozy is what I have used to do my backup. Um, why do I have to wait for a “Web Restore build confirmation email” to get my files? Why does Mozy have to “find” my shit?? I would really like to have all my bookmarks back in order, my calendars uploaded (this is minor, I also have them on my iPod), et cetera. I’m frustrated at how this is a less-than-ideal scenario for a person who is less-than-patient. I’m going to try to find a new backup system, and I’ll report back on whether it also annoys the crap out of me.
I Did It.
Thu - 21 Jun 07, 1:24
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product I bought a camera. Canon EOS SLR Digital Rebel XTi. And then a 28-135mm lens. And a 2GB memory card. So far, I am in love. More in depth analysis when it isn’t 1:30 in the morning.
Art, Pirating and Creative Exercises (Blogger)
So what I have been musing about all day (since I’m playing hooky from summer classes on a rainy Miami day) is art. I’ve done some wallpaper searching (interfacelift.com and a lot of deviantart.com) and then I thought about something I saw posted on a website a few months back. DNA art. Ok, I’m lying. I only thought about DNA art for like ten minutes. Maybe twenty. I did think a lot about whether or not my university wireless network is going to kick me off when I go back to campus tomorrow. Since today, I did some BitTorrent file sharing. Today? It was for the Classroom-In-A-Book series for the new Adobe CS3 (that was done about three weeks ago…last week, made out with Aperture). I’m just going to say, no one is going to make me feel bad about pirating. Why? Because I am a college student, who seeks to learn everything Mac-related that is humanly possible. That includes using programs that I have always been blithely fascinated by (Adobe anything, Aperture and some others that I just haven’t gotten around to yet), because I very much enjoy being a pro. With that being said, I am a college student, therefore broke. I couldn’t afford CS3 unless I knocked over every 7-11 within a five-mile radius of my house. Anyway, I found this interesting website last night, onesentence.org. It’s people writing a single sentence to sum up either something in their life, a significant event or life in general. Some of that stuff is hilarious, other ones are particularly sobering. Either way, I’m working to be inspired these days, so, using my new favorite program Journler, I have taken some of the really funny or really good sentences (in my humble opinion) and am working on using them as the inspiration for a collection of short short stories. It forces me to think about the history of a sentence like “They say depression runs in my family, but that doesn’t help me much right now.”
