my so-called blog (redux)

So I think I might go ahead and get ridda a whole bunch of toys I have. I’ve got this XBox I never use and two computers I could part with pretty easily (a 1GHz Celeron and a 2GHz Pentium 4). Heck, I may even get rid of my decent PC - I have a Sempron 2800+ that I only really use for TiVo transfers. I have a whole room dedicated to computer stuff that I’m hardly ever in nowadays (though there’s a lot of stuff in there, much of it not stuff I’d want to part with) so getting rid of all this crap would be nice. Plus, I could buy more shiny afterwards.

So I think NaNoWriMo is a complete failure for me, as I haven’t actually bothered writing anything. Maybe next year, when I’m not so freakin busy.

So I got some new toys - through work managed to get a nicer PowerBook than the one I had. The new one’s a 1.5GHz G4 as opposed to my 1.0GHz TiBook, and has a full 512MB more RAM and 20GB more disk space too (the old was 1GB and 60GB, the new 1.5 and 80). I lose out in SuperDrive but win in warranty. I also got a first-gen white iBook - a 500MHz/128MB machine with nary but a DVD reader (no burning at all!) and an additional 128MB SODIMM. I DIY’ed an Orinoco card into it and scrounged up some more RAM and now it’s a pretty nice machine. I’m pretty amazed at how usable this thing is, given that I have OS X on it and all. The Orinoco card, being quite a bit longer than the reg. Airport card, gives my keyboard a bit of a bulge, though, but it’s still usable. I got a freakin’ awesome deal on both machines, and I’m very happy with them both. (The TiBook still worked well but it’s getting a bit long in the tooth, and you can sorta feel it. I’m sure the iBook will feel worse once I start trying to play music on it.) Now I want to see if I can scare up some cash for a 20″ widescreen monitor and/or a laptop stand - then I could use the new G4 as my desktop too. I’m kinda thinking of tasking the iBook as a development box, since it draws very little power (45wt) and I can have the stuff I need on it. It’s not terribly fast but it really doesn’t have to be, either. I’m going to start using my PCs less and less, I think..

Speaking of toys, I need to get rid of my Xbox. Doesn’t do me a whole lot of good.. I haven’t turned it on in like 4 months.