I guess I never noticed it, but I have a lot of menu icons! In order from left to right is:
Adium
Waveboard
Tweetie
BetterTouchTool
Alfred
Dropbox
Google Notifier – Calendar
Google Notifier – GMail
Caffeine
MobileMe Sync
Time Machine
Bluetooth
Wireless
Audio/Volume
Time
Spotlight
Check out a screenshot of all of them on my desktop:
After almost a month without a laptop, I finally got one again. You’d be surprised how much wish you had a laptop when don’t have one. It is a 15″ Macbook Pro. 2.66 GHz processor. 4Gb RAM.
Now I get to go through and install all of the software and set up all of my preferences.
My home command center is almost complete!
I have some kind of obsession with Darth Vader. I don’t even like the Star Wars movies, but I really like Darth Vader. At work, they changed my name of my phone to say ‘Darth Vader’. So when I call someone, their phone says like Darth Vader is calling them. How cool is that!
Not sure how it happened but Google thinks I am a bot. I typed in the CAPTCHA and I haven’t seen the message since. The only thing I can think of was our network was having problems connecting at the beginning of the day. Maybe something got thrown out of whack at the same time I went to Google?
I don’t really want to go into all of the details, but about a month ago my apartment was broken into. They got a lot of my computer equipment. They also left a lot of it behind. They did take both of my computers though. How long is 2 1/2 weeks for a web developer without computer? It’s a lifetime. Time passes very slow.
Thank God I had renters insurance. For $7 a month, it’s almost dumb not to have it. It’s the price of eating at a fast food restaurant. Skip the fast food for one day out of the month and you just paid your renters insurance.
When I finally got the check from insurance, I went to replace my Macbook Pro with another Macbook Pro. No one seems to have any. Well, people have the 17″ but I wanted the 15″. So I have to hold off on get the Macbook Pro. So I started looking at computers to replace a Sony Vaio that was also taken. The only reason I use a PC is to test things in IE, so I wasn’t looking for anything fancy. Then it hit me. Why get a computer that I really won’t use much? I can always get another Mac. Install Windows on a virtual machine or Bootcamp it. This allows me to get a computer I want but still be able to test things in IE. So I got a Mac Mini.
For now it is in my bedroom because it is the only computer I have. When I am able to get another Macbook Pro, I’ll put the Mini in the living room and hook it up to the television. The Mini will by my entertainment computer with light IE testing. The Macbook Pro will be my primary computer.
[Update @8:00PM Feb 21, 2010] And a picture of the Mini on my desk.
I had a car accident last night. This morning I woke up and thought that I needed to make sure I reported it to my insurance company. So I called them up. Half way through telling them my policy number I stopped and realized something. This is how the conversation went;
Me: (half way through telling them my policy number) … Oh crap!
Insurance: What is it?
Me: I just realized… I didn’t have an accident. It was a dream.
Insurance: … What do you mean?
Me: My little sister was in the car with me. She lives in Texas and I live in California. It had to have been a dream… I’m really sorry.
At that point she started laughing at me. She wasn’t happy about having to work on the weekend but that just made her entire day.
So the dream was that I was in Texas. And my little sister and I were in my Mustang. We were stopped at a stop light. We were in the left lane to turn left to go to my parents house. Two motorcycle cops that were headed in the other direction flipped on their lights and sirens. The light turned green and the guy in front of me went. I decided to stay were I was so the cops could go by before I went. They headed over toward my side of the road. The first cop went by me and started weaving in and out of the cars. The second one started to do the same thing but lost control of his motorcycle and scrapped the entire passenger side of my car.
I pulled over to the gas station on the corner and started trading insurance with the cops. They were being complete jerks to me saying it was my fault somehow. Suddenly, Dylan, my sisters stepson, appears in the back seat and wants out to see the damage. I let him out. He starts laughing at me and I said “Shut up! Get back in the car!”
We finish trading information and we drive off. That’s when I woke up. That’s when I decided to call my insurance agent. I felt like an idiot, but at least my car was fine.
