Cameron's Thoughts

Man, Movable Type 3.1 looks like it rocks. Now there is a lot of good plugins, especially MTBlacklist, the greatest plugin of all. Might almost be worth paying for. Dynamic PHP pages, made by the coolest MT guy and now employee of SixApart, Brad Choate.
Yes, I am very tired while writing this. Long day at work, and a long week taking care of a sick daughter, all equaling no sleep, lot's of drain. At least I have tommorrow off of work.

Today I had the exciting job of taking care of Hailey on a sick day of hers. She wasn't miserable or anything from what I could tell. But, I couldn't believe how disgusting milk can smell after it's been thrown up. I had to give Hailey a bath, wash her hair twice with baby shampoo, then I also gave her a shower, and used apple scented Suave, just to get the smell out of her hair. I almost barfed a couple times. Basicly, when she woke up, she had puke in her hair, and diarrea in the bed that was leaking out of her diaper. After giving her both a bath and a shower, the diarrea doesn't stop, it just get's runnier, and decides to leak out of the diaper when Hailey is sitting on my lap.
Oh, the joys of fatherhood.

Don't have a high speed connection, or just want to have a back up copy of XP Service Pack 2 ready for whenever you need to do a Windows reinstall? Microsoft is now sending out free CD's, no shipping or anything required. Not a bad deal at all. There has been a lot of talk of possible compatibility problems after installing SP2. I wouldn't worry too much about it. Really, the only difference externally is the new firewall and security center. By default, they really bug you if your security isn't up to par. I actually like the fact that the firewall is automatically turned on. I made sure to promptly turn off the firewall and virus protection monitoring. But the average person would never worry about these things until there computer is messed up and they call tech support. Now they have a nag.

Never mind on the Gmail invites. Last time I was given two and it took a couple weeks before I got rid of them, I got six this time, and traded one yesterday. Then, this morning, there were five requests in my inbox for invites, so apparently the demand is a little greater now. So I have handed out all my current invites.

Have a ton more Gmail invites now, so if anyone is lacking one, just click the Contact Me link on the right side of the page.

I have been using GTray for a while now and it has been a very useful app for keeping me informed on new Gmail messages. It looks like Google is also aware of the need for such a program, and now Google has a beta of their own notification app, Gmail Notifier. Just downloaded, and while it seems to offer the same types of features, such as setting up mailto: links in websites to redirect to Gmail, it's nice to have an offical app. I will have to keep an eye on GTray and see what kind of new features they come up with, but since Google now has there own app, I will probably trust that a little more. For instance, a week or so ago, GTray stopped working. This was due to Google changing the authentication method of Gmail. A new update to GTray came out shortly and everything started to work again, but who knows when this will happen in the future. Seems that Google's own software would be updated ahead of time for any such issue.

You are George Costanza - Jerry's paranoid best friend. Elaine Benes describes you as "a short guy with glasses...looks like Humpty-Dumpty with a melon hat."

Which character are you? Find out at Starlocity.com!

I was just browsing through whois records of domains (I had nothing better to do ), and I noticed that Gmail.com was originally registered back in 1995. So, I wondered what was originally on that domain. I went over to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and saw a copy of Gmail.com from December of 1996. Just a basic site offering an e-mail forwarding service. But, I have seen this a lot, "get a lifetime e-mail address". So, I wonder if anyone who signed up for that is trying to get their old address back now on Google's Gmail service.

Design your very own Bush.

Build a Better Bush

Bought a new computer today. A Toshiba Satellite A75-S206. It's a fairly big machine, but is very powerful. Especially since every spec outdoes my desktop, including the screen size. Some of my favorite things, nice 15.4" widescreen XGA LCD and the 802.11g wireless. While I love the 54Mb speed, I was suprised that I was able to get 108Mb connections sometimes too. The Atheros Wi-Fi has one of those unstandard 108Mb modes, but I was under the impression that the router would need to be from the same manufacturer. But the shiny new Linsys router seems to support that too. :D Heres the spec list:

• Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor 518 supporting HT Technology (2.80GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 533MHz FSB)
• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
• 512MB (1DIMM) fixed PC2700 memory module
• 15" Wide-screen XGA display (1280 x 800)
• ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP w/64MB shared video memory
• 60GB HDD (4200 rpm)
• DVD/CD-RW
• Integrated Atheros Wi-Fi (802.11g)