2006 — Day 20 - today I get organised, starting with the study
Though I am usually in favour of a grossly insensitive lack of intelligence (stannic?) in a large aggregate of people united by common descent, culture, or language... I can put it off1 only for so long.
I did like the new Beatles re-mixes, though. Very much. And Clerks II duly arrived. Turns out she who must be adored hasn't seen the first one, of course. So, to get rid of the foul stench of yesterday's Volcano on FilmFour, (we must both have been tired, or maybe one of us was simply retired) and as a break from Boston Legal (which is superb, by the way)...
Speaking of dithering, I have re-instated the Joytech RGB switchbox. Though I liked the idea of having only two boxes (the scaler and the A/V amplifier) rather than three, I resented losing out in the resolution stakes, and (domestically) having to use more than one of the inputs on the plasma screen has never been very warmly welcomed by either the distaff side or the offsprung durch Technik. It reminds me of that definition of "panacea": The infallible solution for all problems in system design — if you have two components that are supposed to mesh but don't, design an interface to mediate between them. You will then have three components that don't quite fit together instead of two. This is a 50% improvement.
Not bad for an IBM manual, heh? Aah, but which one? And when? Clue: it was before I joined IBM, so don't blame me.
Happiness is a warm power brick
Or, in other words, there's nothing wrong with my Lacie drive. Look rather at the Aldi power strip, which had a non-conducting mote in its eye, as it were. Same goes for the digital converter, I predict. Of course, I won't know until I try it, and I can only do that when I can find it, which takes me back to today's (last night's) heading.
This afternoon's little contribution to keeping Junior off my case:
- JavaScript and AJAX, by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith — 6th edition.
Who wants my 3rd edition?
On the procrastination front
The San Francisco Chronicle finds stories that my Guardian misses, and brings us "The Global O":
Living on their houseboat off the Marin County coast, anti-war activists Donna Sheehan and her partner, Paul Reffel ... want everyone to have an orgasm on the same day. On Dec. 22, they're asking the world to contribute in their own way to the Global Orgasm for Peace. Sheehan said not to worry if you don't have a partner.
Best of all: "Reffel and Sheehan are not just tossing off this idea." Let us hope they don't make too many waves.