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This is one of those mornings where I think I should be in a better mood than I am. There’s a beautiful sunrise, I had a pretty good weekend (full of doing nothing), and I’ve got happy feet, since my new slippers arrived. But there’s change a-comin’, and that always leaves me a bit on-edge. Some of it’s good change, and some I’m not sure about, but it’s knocking me out of my nice comfortable rut, and I’m never thrilled about that.
Part of the change is something you’re going to see. I’m not sure when, but I think I’m going to quit doing the blogging first thing in the morning. I’ve been with the morning schedule for quite a while, but I realize that it’s not working as well as I’d like. Even if I wake up at 5:30, like I did this morning, I’m not ready to head out the door until nearly 9am. And that means that I’m not ready to get out and enjoy a beautiful sunrise like the one this morning. I’m not sure of the details, and I’ll probably continue to spend at least a little time surfing the web each morning, but I think I’m going to try putting off the posting until evening. Probably change over next week, but maybe as early as tomorrow.
Another change is that I think it’s finally time to upgrade my Mac. Just a software upgrade of the OS, but that’s never as simple as it sounds. The driving force behind that is my frustration with Safari. I see the spinning pizza of death something like a hundred times every morning. Most of them are short, like five seconds or so, but over the course of my regular morning surfing, that’s a lot of frustration. I’m hoping the upgrade will improve matters, but I suspect the problem lies in something like the auto-complete text thingie that I need to trash, if only I could remember where it was. But there’s other reasons to upgrade too, so I’ll try that first and worry about other issues later.
As for the weekend, there wasn’t all that much excitement. I made the National Ammo Day run on Saturday, but that was about it. I’ll have a picture of my purchases sometime this week, but the total was pretty respectable.
- Huh. Hackers Cracked Gmail back in mid-October, and the word’s just gotten out recently. [shelley]
- Cory says a Sony insider emailed him saying that DRM is discredited at Sony. I don’t think it really matters. I’ll be thinking extra-hard before I buy anything from Sony again. I won’t exactly boycott them, but I won’t be as quick to think of their products as superior anymore. [boing boing]
- In the war on pork, Pork and Principles Fly As Congress Appropriates, Dances The D.C. Two-Step on Spending, and the Senate adopts ‘exit strategy’ from reality. And now it’s time for a two-week vacation, because they’ve done all the hard work of naming buildings after themselves. [instapundit and fark]
- Oh goody! Lie detectors may be next step in airline security. They say one in eight people are likely to give false-positives. That’ll definitely speed up the airport experience. I guess they’re just part of the new false sense of security system. [claire and schneier]
- Wally’s right, if the film’s as great as its posters V for Vendetta is going to rock. Then again, it’s already been delayed by at least four months, so instead of already having seen it, I’ve got to wait until at least March. Grumble. [claire]
- jr’s got a list of Very Wrong Gifts you may want to get for that special someone. [jr]
- Davezilla started an Evil Twins pool on Flickr that
features straight-on portraits (yours or anyone else’s) split into two mirrored halves, creating two entirely new people, or perhaps you and your EVIL TWIN.
The effect is pretty cool, and I find myself wondering why nobody’s thought of it before. [davezilla]