My Cousin Chuck Died

I don’t know what the funeral will be like, but I guess I will find out on Wednesday.

He was in poor health for a long time, but he was only two years older than me, so it seems that he died too young. Since last January he had taken to calling me, mostly when he couldn’t get ahold of his younger brother. But it has been interesting talking with him. And I never rushed him off the phone, because he just needed to talk to someone – he lived alone, never married, no kids.

Goodbye, Chuck!

My New Mac Book Pro

I finally did what I’ve wanted to do. I broke down and bought a Mac Book Pro (17 inch screen, 3 GB memory, and the 200 GB hard drive)

I’ve heard it said that the best machine to run Windows Vista on is an Intel Mac. My experience so far has been amazing. It’s been a long time since I used MacOS regularly. I used to use Mac’s back in the 80’s when “Windows” was something you got only in either the “Vinyl” or “Aluminum” variety. Mac’s were an ideal platform to run Smalltalk-80 on.

So I’m reaquainting myself to MacOS, but I still enjoy it.

I can also report that Windows Vista runs great. I am using bootcamp so I can boot to either Windows or MacOS. I’m hoping that when Parallels next version comes out it will allow booting a VM from a Vista bootcamp partition.

I’m also running a virtual Fedora core machine on top of MacOS. It’s amazing. I used to have three computers on my desk at work. A laptop, and desktop and a linux desktop. I tied them all together with Synergy so I could get to them all with the same keyboard/mouse. Now I can do all of that with the same machine. Even some at the same time.

Anyway, I’m enjoying a new toy.

~nuff said

Non-Sequitor Comments

I just had my first “non-sequitor” comment. I guess I am glad that I have moderation set up for comments on this blog.

I realize that this blog isn’t the most active or exciting, but I guess I don’t understand what attracted someone to post a political comment on a posting that was very apolitical in nature. Comments should (for the most part) stay on topic.

I know it’s not monday. I know I haven’t kept up.

~nuff said

Non-Posting

Okay, I’m a geek. The reason I have a blog here is because I have been “playing around” with the WordPress software, and I figured that I ought to have a look at what sort of things have been done here on the “flagship” site.

But as can be easily seen, I have been posting here. Just not as frequently as some.

There are those who would disparage me for having “blogs I don’t post to”. At least for this week, this blog doesn’t fall in that category.

So much for the first of my weekly “Monday Blogs”