How to make a grown man cry; or, comparing file recovery tools
I’m here to tell you that my brain should have been screaming at me earlier when I wrote the following passage:
…this morning I bit the bullet and deleted the remaining 32 GB of files.
Because, of course, when I deleted the contents of my Music folder, I also blew away the special iTunes folder. Which, of [...]
The Supreme Court: Anyone can play!
Democracy for America : America Needs a Friend on the Supreme Court. Why Not Yours?. If you saw Bush’s nomination of his pal Harriet Miers and said, “Huh. So the only qualification she has is that she’s his friend? I bet my friend could do better”—well, now’s your chance to put your nomination where your [...]
Making a happy Mac
As I alluded in the previous post, my Mac is a little unhappy right now. It’s been much unhappier on the software side—launch times of some applications are measured in minutes, the SBOD appears when doing even trivial actions in iTunes—and I’m going to try to find some measures today to fix the problem.
My first [...]
Chore day
Happy Columbus Day—or Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day, if you swing that way. My company observes the October holiday (and the fact that it is the only reasonable holiday candidate in October is probably why), so I have a day off for house chores.
Which is more exciting than it sounds, because there is nothing more depressing [...]

