Entries from June 2004 ↓

SO I have a second machine I’d like to play around with some, problem is we already used the 4 ports on our router. Rather than either set two cards up in my primary machine or get a switch or something I decided to get a wireless card for my extra machine. I picked up a D-Link 802.11b USB Adapter. Works great, really easy to set up. Pretty much I just downloaded linux-wlan-ng, selected the 4th configure option (prism 2.5 USB support), then I made it. TaDa. It’s nice when it’s that easy.

Here’s a low impact post to close a couple of mozilla windows I’ve had open most of the week.
- A Wal-Mart Supercenter opens in America approximately every 1.65 days.
- New acronym FGI
- The tao of regex also you’re not a real man till you edit xml with regex…
- Kite Aerial Photography. Ritz is gonna hate the insurance plan i bought….

thats all, resume your lollygagging.

So last night I went out with Jay Huie and company and had sushi for the first time. It was actually pretty good. The started with spiced soybeans and sake. Then miso (broth with tofu and seaweed) and sake. Then salad with mashed carrot and ginger as a dressing and sake. Then I had the sushi regular, with sake. The sushi itself was pretty good. I was surprised by the texture, i expected it to be cold, and firmer than it was. But it wasn’t bad, soft and for the most part not too much taste, or easily overwelmed by the soy sauce and wasabi. My favorite I think was the salmon, it tasted good and I think it had the most appetizing texture and taste. The rolls were pretty good too but they were kinda hard to eat because if you tried to bite them in half they just fell apart so it seemed like the single giant bite was the best bet. The only thing that really grossed me out was the squid which was really horrible in many ways and the mackerel was really oily/fishy and I wasn’t too big on that. Definately an interesting experience though and I’d try it again no problem.

That’s about it.

So far I’ve gotten my printer, my digital camera, my music and movies workking on my desktop. Which is cool. I almost have the iPod working. That means I have to still get the scanner working (might not happen), also I’m running out of usb ports…

So I have decided to sell my g4 iBook. I don’t need it anymore really and someone should have it. Plus it wouldn’t hurt to have the money. I have to say I’m writing this with a bit of sorrow. I had a lot of trouble with my last iBook (a g3 with 4 major hardware failures in a year before I could get apple to replace it). However I have enjoyed the current one a lot and will miss a lot of the ‘just freakin works’ parts of it. Almost more I will miss all the really interesting software that people make for this platform. I am heartfelt in my suppport of open software, I just hope the community can become more innovative with the software they write.

Blah. Anyway, my new side project is moving all my devices over to my desktop. The current list is:

-iPod
-casio digital camera
-little hp printer
-canon scanner
-all my music and movies
-usb tv tuner … myth tv …

Yeah. As soon as I can access all my devices I’ll be putting this laptop on ebay. If anyone is interested let me know, mattfinlayson at mac dot com. (Can’t spam scripts get around that by now?)

Just a few blogs I find myself reading a few times a week. I’d spend the time to check them out.

http://www.debris.com/journal
http://kottke.org/
http://plasticbag.org/
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/