I'm starting to finally getting around to doing things that seriously needed doing like getting new glasses. I had held off til the insurance plan changed and then just hadn't gotten around to it til today, main reason they cost a lot. Price of glasses=price of PS2. And my doc's office finally returned my messages...twice by two different people wanting me to make an appointment to go over my MRI results and discuss my options. Makes me wonder that they finally either got the report or actually read it. And of course I wonder if it was any worse than the previous MRI. Curiosity will get me the appointment sooner.

Meanwhile, I spend my time trying to find where I put my registration code for NAV 2002 so I can reinstall it in the poor POS PC. That's the worst thing about losing my data, every time I reinstall, I have to look up my codes again. Least I don't have the spector of product activation hanging over me. I did actually see Windows XP on the compys at the store and I was quite unimpressed. Not that bright blue and bright green are my favorite color schemes, they're not. It's just it looks like Windows with a fancy skin. The icons are a bit more 3Dish, kindof goes with IncrediMail's look. I have to admit I am spoiled by OSX so it will take a lot to impress me.

I had a fairly uneventful night at work and so decided to read the news. From the possibility of war with Iraq, I turned a more imminent danger: Windows XP's EULA and Windows 2000 SP3's EULA. Initially spotted in a Windows Media Player update, the bit giving Microsoft way too much power has made it's way into the end user licence agreements. No way will I give Microsoft admin privledges to do what it wants to my computer disabling programs it doesn't like and violating my privacy. There are alternatives, one which I read a bit about, WINE, which runs on Linux. Yes, getting it to work is even more tricky than uninstalling Zone Alarm but the idea of an open source Windows, which looks nicer than 98, is appealing precisely cause it isn't controlled by Microsoft. Sides think of what I could learn.Course, if IncrediMail got off it's collective butts and ported it over to OSX, I wouldn't have any reason to run Windows at all.

Read this and see what fun I will have recovering that HD. Well, uninstalling in Windows is out so I will have to try to disable as much as I can in DOS then uninstall it before I dare connect the HD back up with the new HD. As the new HD has Windows installed, I will be uninstalling Windows too. Oh what fun. But I have my IncrediMail back. Now after reading what fun Zone Alarm is to install, compare it with a typical uninstall in OSX. Drag item to trashcan and empty trash. That works for most all programs cept those with tentacles all over the HD. And those with tentacles include not surprisingly Microsoft Office. beware of Microsoft.

The POS PC died last night and I am going thru IncrediMail withdrawal. Mind you, that and PhotoImpact are the only two things I use it for. Except for a few warps and masks, I am pretty much using Photoshop for everything now so I can live without PI. Kid uses the PC. Her bf can fix it, I tried but it doesn't even have a full version of DOS so I can't do much there either. I did find that I could view the stats pretty much intact in Mozilla Mail cept for missing some, er a lot of the fonts. But I won't be making anything for a while with no IM.

Still not doing much, waiting aroung for MRI results. The past week has been extremely painful. Back pain sucks. So, I lie in bed a lot. Finished my iTunes/iPod update that is unless kid dl'd more. Still have to add that second drive to the PC, need cable. I am doing some useful stuff while laying around. Photoshop, yep, learning the ins and outs of Photoshop. Still have a lot to learn, like how to do masks. Frames, got Splat, great plugin. Still, there are tricks to learn.

And I do keep up with the news sortof, read a bit about cyberwar on ZDNet. Will there be a cyberwar? You bet. Everytime David Coursey writes bout Macs, a war erupts in Talkback. And with Bill Gates dissing open source, war will erupt between the MS crowd and the Linux crowd too. There may even be a cyberwar with terrorists too but I'm placing my bets on MS vs everyone else anyday. And if anyone tried to take over my computer, it would most likely be MS not some terrorist.

Ok, some peeps actually read my blog. I have been rather not terribly up to doing much. Back hurts worse and I am waiting for insurance approval for another MRI. Doc tried new pain meds but they just made me sick. Add to that, kid moved the PC to the back room, new desk, monitor too high, keyboard too low, I am not on the PC much. So, I lay in my bed of pain and play on the iBook. Unfortunately, Super Collapse has been released for OSX and well I haven't done much else. I did do one useful thing, move files. iTunes 3 is really nifty and I have been updating it, got bout 5gb of music. ;)

Now to the news peeps really want to know, my mailing list is down, can't even access the admin interface. So I get to write to Dreamhost and ask them to fix it as I can't access the underlying files/code. Not that it won't be noticed, I am working next couple days so can't attend to it til I am off. I still hang out of SF's list. And I did transfer the rest of my lists off my AOL email addresses. I just need to update the website so as not to point to AOL and I can ditch it.