I need to run, too. Been a week. I can feel the tension in my shoulderblades…
Day: September 15, 2006
MacBook
So, even though I may have broken Iocelli’s heart, I am scarily happy with the new MacBook. Highly recommend it.
Right now, though, I’m desecrating it – using Parallels Parallels to install WindowsXP. Though every cloud has a silver lining – I’m using the license I bought when I picked up Office Pro for OS X. It included Virtual PC, and an XP Pro license. This hack worked like a champ. The only hurdle was that Microsoft used a Mac-only format on the CDs, so I had to use a USB stick between my iMac and the PC I was using to make the CD.
Oh, that and trying to figure out that the i386 directory is on the WHITE CD supplied with VirtualPC.
But the machine works like a champ. It’s installing XP in a VM on Parallels, playing music in iTunes, downloading the torrent for NeoOffice and Ubuntu, and grabbing a new copy of Second Life to troubleshoot that crashing on me…
Now, all I need to do is start vodcasting and I can be hip and with it.
Well, that and get the RIGHT 120 GB hard drive so I’ve got space for all this crap…
Ahhhh…
So, the new MacBook is here, and it is GOOOOOOD… The screen is SUPER BRIGHT. It’s faster than the iBook, but I think we’re approaching a point at which speed is somewhat moot.
Huge apologies to one and all – when I got NetNewsWire up and running, there were about 1,000 posts in my aggregator, so I punted. I’m accepting nominations for great rides/runs of the last two weeks – drop me a line.
In other news – Well, I really don’t want to get into the Whole Frankie Andreiu mess. Kudos to him for coming clean about his EPO use in the peleton, but it’s small praise to give seeing as how the relevation makes him more marketable as a television personality.
AND, I’ve been a slug. But the weight’s staying constant, so something’s working well.