Last day of the year, ok, what's new. I am working on a .php version of the site, big site, will take time. What else, well won't be able to collect from the kid who took my kid's car joyriding last year and wrecked it to the tune of $2000+, not that I expected to, but as I just discovered he is serving time, well justice is served anyway. And today was report card day for my kid, straight A's, 4.0 average. Way to go!;) Now if I could just get rid of this big pain in my ass, no not WebRing, just a bad back. Expect I'll need surgery as nothing else has worked. Bummer. Oh, I'm not exactly celebrating New Years, just laying around in bed playing on the iBook. It just works.^_^

Merry Christmas, here's hoping it was merry as it's almost over. Perhaps the new year will be better. Maybe I should devote my resources to something useful like preserving endangered species, yes save the penguin.^_^

Gee I'm slow, almost worked another 7 in a row but got tired after the fourth day so didn't. So what's new, one of my kid's friends used the recycle container as an ashtray. Lucky for me the house didn't burn down. Still, I wasn't happy. I did get a little accomplished on the Ringmanager's group project World of Webrings. My experience with Mailman turned out to be useful. And yes, I am still involved with webrings, must update my site. WebRing has improved in it's features but still has a few flaws like it claims ownership of Ringmasters rings and the people involved tend to get a tad upset at any criticism of their capricious behavior. It may have left Yahoo but still acts like Yahoo, still looks like Yahoo. And certain people involved, well Andrea, tends to target rings she doesn't like. She doesn't like my protest ring either, no surprise there.

Holidays, well I do wish everyone a nice, happy holiday season even if I feel a bit bah humbug. I haven't even got a tree up yet. Looking forward to a new year, fun with Iraq, North Korea, Al Quida, the Howard government, and of course Microsoft. Hmmm, all of those are bad, something good, yes MacWorld. I eagerly await Steve Jobs' keynote address. ^_^ And just possibly more market share for OSX and Linux.

I did it, survived working seven days in a row, that be 12 hour shifts, and I'm tired, very very tired. Not too much happened while I was occupied bringing home the $$$ except for yesterday. I was trying to read a few emails after work when I heard my kid scream. Turned out that the kitten she was catsitting for a friend peed and pooped (diarrhea-stinky) on her bed and boy was she upset. It reminded me of all those times I screamed at the stupid f***ing computer when I got the blue screen of death way too many times. Later that day, she took the kitten over to another friend as she was NOT catsitting that cat any more. I am rather happy not that the cat is gone but that I am using a nice functioning computer that does NOT give me any trouble. Yes, it's true re Macs, it just works.

Updating, I was able to find an addin script that gave me a history in Chimera. Now I'm happy sortof. Still have the other kitten, the one she brought home. I refer to that cat as Psycho Cat as she is always attacking me. It is most annoying to be sitting reading email and having her jump on my back, digging in. It is equally annoying when feeding the cats, she jumps up and grabs my hand, digging in. I can hardly wait til my kid moves out that is if she takes that cat with her.

On the up side, I did have some influence in converting a friend, not to the Mac, but to Unix, specifically Linux. if one has a PC, Linux is a nice option and has some nice GUI's plus if you don't like what is available, being open source, one can create their own GUI.

Can M$ terminate your licence to use Windows XP or refuse to activate or reactivate it? This was a question posted on ZDNet. They can. Will they? Who knows...probably. Can someone hack your system to take control over it like Microsoft can do? Far as I know anything can be hacked. I already know from their EULA that M$ can update your compy without informing you and disable your software in the process. Considering that Windows Updates generally hose the system, it occured to me that M$ put that in there not cause updates may deliberately disable competing software but to protect them from liability cause it tends to hose your system anyway. And since they are doing it without informing you, guess they don't want lawsuits. If you agreed to the update, then M$ has no liability.

So I've been gone, working mostly, then got sick, yuck. So I am laying in bed, contemplating how much the epidural cost and how long the effect didn't work. Yes, it didn't last long enough thanks to work. Pain.