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All Work And No Play…
… Makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy. All work and no play makes Chris a dull boy.
I just had to get that off of my chest! Now that I’m done with my shining impression, I can talk a little more seriously (as everyone in the room groans with the pun!).
I’ve been working hard this week at home. So hard, in fact, that it actually threatened to interfere with my day job (you, know… the job that puts moolah in my pocket!). I got next to no sleep this week due to, one, website design aggravation and, two, installing a new router so Christine and I can have her old computer and our new G5 machine on their own network. The latter is what I played wrestled with for most of the week, but it works well now. I have to show Christine how to type in IP adresses to access one computer’s files when she’s on another, but what’s kind of silly but cool is that we can IM each other on the network. I think yelling across the apartment is better!
The bad thing about this new computer network is the difference in operating systems. The new mac is running Tiger 10.4 OS, while the old one is running 10.1. I’ve tried figuring out various means to upgrade the OS without much luck. See, the 10.3 OS discs that came with the new computer are in DVD format. The old computer just has a CD drive. I could use FireWire connections to hook the computers together and re-format the old one, but it doesn’t have FW, either! The reason for all this hubbub is: iTunes music sharing! This feature can’t be enabled under 10.1, so we need 10.2 or above to unlock the full potential. Also, any of my music that was bought with iTunes 6 will not play on older versions of iTunes (bad Apple!!) and, unlucky me, iT6 won’t run on anything less than 10.3. AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!
So I did some research on upgrades. A combination FireWire/CPU (600 MB) daughterboard upgrade costs $300. This is the best option other than simply buying a new computer, which the choice would have easily been a Mac Mini (Apple sez that’ll be $600, please!). Christine is willing to go with the upgrade, since the old computer has lots of sentimental value to her and I don’t blame her for feeling that way (I would, too!). Add $50 for buying the out-dated 10.3 OS from a TPV; there’s still no way I’d trust the upgrade to handle 10.4. Well, better start saving! The good news financially is that I may have a pay-period rollover in paychecks (3 in a month) this month. That’ll help!
My business website was another thing keeping me awake past 10pm this week. I was slamming my head against the wall trying to figure out what I was doing wrong with my CSS codes/calls and HTML implementation. Christine, bless her soul, resisted the urge to kill me when I was acting like an irritated panther and keeping her from working on her email, hence my router purchase later in the week. The dang footer I made for the pages kept appearing at the top of the pages! It’s fixed today, and I found out what I did wrong; sometimes you need to step away from a problem at its most aggravating point. I forgot all the closing tags for the main content table… that’s a common mistake made by most coders!
Well, that’s it for my update. I will say that I’ve been thinking about what Sebastian, of his blog Void Inside, said in one of my blog entries about my insistence in hand-coding everything. I did check out RapidWeaver and I may use it, not as a replacement for hand coding, but to augment my abilities and the sites I work on. Who knows, I may look at the code it produces and learn from it, too!
Take care, all! Cheers!!
