So Laura got me a Nintendo DS for Christmas, and my mom got me a couple of games to go with it. This is collusion of the finest kind, and I thoroughly approve.
I’m happy with the DS and would write more about it, but Mario Kart DS has completely eaten my soul, so instead I will simply note that my friend code is 408083-716202 and go back to racing a little pixelated cart against strangers online.
After eight years, the 233MHz Dell box I’d been hosting my mail and web stuff finally started making wheezy I-will-die-soon noises.
So instead of buying/building a new PC, I went to the Apple store and bought a Mac Mini. After a couple days of fiddling, it’s providing all of the old machine’s services (Postfix, SpamAssassin, Cyrus-IMAP, Apache, mod_perl, mod_php, MySQL, WordPress). It’s much faster, which pleases me.
It’s also smaller than some sandwiches I’ve eaten, which honestly kinda disturbs me.
I’m not sure I’m okay with a world in which I can walk into a store in the middle of a nice business district, plop down a couple hundred bucks, and walk out with a fully capable server that pretty much fits in my pocket. Isn’t buying a computer supposed to be, y’know, difficult? Shouldn’t it involve mail-ordering and waiting and irritation and not just “Yeah, hi, I’ll take that one in the middle. Thanks!”?