Me and Darin made it safely to his new place in Cali. I am working on editing the trip journal to make it into a cool Blogger.com 4 Page DVD Exclusive. With special formatting with time and color it will be great.
The power of a Mac and Tristan and Darin and Windows XP.
Ahh Free Wireless Internet Access is amazing.
Well I was laying in bed playing with my new laptop and I had Satellite Radio going and I heard this song by a group called O-Zone and I had been hearing it a lot on XM but never on Sirius. And I was like woah so I thought iTunes is always kinda behind on the times on Dance Music but suprise suprise they had it on there. It’s called Mai Ai Hee (Dragostea Din Tei) [Original Italian Version] I made it easy for you to click on this and it loads iTunes for you and you can listen to the 30 second preview I highly suggest you get the full version it’s only 99cents so what do you have to lose? It’s such a happy great song even though I can’t understand one word of it. 
This has to suck a lot I would imagine. I believe it rings in at just over 6 minutes. lol with a giant long pause in the middle because Andrea called me. Lots of Love to you Andrea.
Mwa ha ha. My Brand new 15” Apple Powerbook G4 arrived yesterday. I was so excited I busted open the manual’s to see if there was anything I really had to pay a great deal of attention to and it didn’t seem that way so I turned it on. I ran through the registration process and it got all the data for my address and so forth from my AppleID and then there was no worries.
The iPod also came today I have been working on re ripping a great deal of my CD’s because it’s good to do that now and then and plus some I had before in Mp3 and I wanted them all in AAC again. After the battery had charged the first time and I had a few CD’s ripped I plugged in the iPod. It recognized the iPod and it loaded iTunes and it automatically put all the music I had ripped into the iPod. I thought that was pretty sweet but sometimes giving up all that control is a little difficult.
I must say iChat blows AIM away I still have some more things to play with but so far it’s beyond awesome. I also love how this is based on Linux but seems ever so much more useful. I loaded a Terminal Window and was doing all the same normal stuff I can do in regular Linux. Some commands were a bit different but that’s not really a big deal I am a fast learner.
Downloading the World of Warcraft Beta to the laptop. 2.53GB But I have the 80GB HDD. I thought getting the MAC to interact with my Windows Desktop would be difficult but it just uses Samba. I don’t like the fact that I have to mount the Windows Share every time I need to access that folder but you can setup an Auto Mounting System. But some things Windows XP is being anal about such as Protected DIr’s and so forth. But I just have to lower the privacy level and get Service Pack to quit fucking things up.
Safari is awesome though I haven’t imported all my settings from Firefox on my desktop PC and but it feels like a 5 star hotel away from home.
Went to college yesterday and was surfing the net outside a building on wireless 802.11b 11Mbps not so great but T1 is only 1.44Mbps and Cable at home is 3.0Mbps and 802.11g is 54Mbps. So we will see how that works out. I like the idea of being cordless. Average checks on the battery life so far are 3-4hrs and if I am watching a DVD it drops to 2.5hrs so that’s not bad if you compare it to other laptops.
Anyway so far I am loving the Mac still have to hook up a digital camera and a digital camcorder to see how those work with Final Cut Express and so forth. I can’t wait to get Keynote compare that to powerpoint.
Darin’s going away party is tonight. Hope to see everyone there.
Delivered it a day ahead of schedule but I wasn’t at home to sign for it so it’s sitting at FedEx right now in it’s box. While I sit at home crying because I don’t have it. It will be here tomorrow so I just have to skip work and wait for it. I am feeling a little sick perhaps.
I signed that it was okay for them to leave it at the front and they will leave here for me tomorrow to come pick up. Then Darin is having me over and we are going to go leeching off free Wireless Internet Access from local shops and download to our hearts delight. I have to download all the OS X updates and some music off the iTunes Music Store on the Mac. Which I could download at home but why. =)
Sep 23, 2004 1:30 AM At local FedEx facility SEATTLE, WA
1:29 AM At dest sort facility SEATTLE, WA
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Well it appears that my iPod left China at 1:55pm and got to Alaska at 1:29pm the day before. If that makes any sense let me know. Have to love the International Date Line. Mwa ha ha.
Now it will go to Indianapolis, IN and then who knows where hopefully to my doorstep so I can take 20GB of my 56GB collection of MP3’s wherever I may Roam by Metallica.
Well FedEx makes me think WTF. My laptop went from China to Alaska and now it’s in Indianapolis, IN. Is this some cruel bitter revenge from Indiana that is still haunting me? More I tend not to think about that state it comes back to haunt me via Fed Ex. I wonder if my iPod will have to go to that state also. Luckily my laptop is scheduled to be here on Friday before 4:30pm. iPod monday is expected on Monday so I will have both before I go to California.
Anyways that’s the update with me keep on trucking.
Well my iPod shipped this morning from China. I am beginning to think WTH why from China why couldn’t they just send me an iPod from the Apple Stores in Bellevue, WA or the University District. I could have it today but no have to buy them online at the same time with a Student Rebate and they come from China.
I can understand the laptop since it’s a custom job but the iPod WTH. Anyway everyone have a great Tuesday.
I have Math tonight w00t. Hopefully me Alexis and Jimmy can get out of there early tonight.
Last night I got an e-mail saying that my laptop had shipped and I had a tracking #. Well I went last night and it said # had been submitted to FedEx but item had not been picked up.
So I get on this morning and it said the origin was “SHANGHAI CN” I thought whoa it has a long way to go. Across the Pacific Ocean and right to Seattle. So there is no est Delivery Date so I am kinda wondering as to when it will get here.
The iPod has yet to ship but I figure I am in the backstock list for that one. It’s supposed to ship before Wed. I hope I have it by the 29th before me and Darin drive down to Cali.
More on that later.
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