Happy & Sad

Posted by stephen on Monday, 03rd October, 2005 @ 11:23

Well, I'll start with the sad news. Thor, my PowerBook, has developed a rather odd spacebar key. It's all a bit squishy on the edges and only works if I strike it in the dead centre. So, technically it still works, but it means I have a habitoftypingthingslikethis, and then having to go fix 'em after. I think that counts as unusable. I've had the key off and it all seems clean, etc underneath, so don't really know what's up.

Fortunately I managed to convince people on several different continents (as I got passed around Apple's tech support phone service) that resetting the PRAM wasn't really going to help. Unfortunately they can't send me a replacement keyboard (having an iBook would have qualified me for that, but I'm incapable of removing the four keys necessary to get at the screws apparently), so they've sent me a box and Thor's been nicely backed up, formatted and installed with a default Tiger install, not that I'm paranoid or anything. I'm more afraid for my keychain than I am for my web browsing habits!

Anyway, it's been in it's security sealed box since Thursday night, and apparently UPS will be around today to pick it up, hence I'm working at home. So I'll be without mobility for a few more days yet. Fortunately I'm coping with Linux quite nicely. It's really moved on lately and Ubuntu is fantastic.

On to the happy stuff. Well, I hadn't noticed, but the second series of Lost has begun in the US as of a couple of weeks ago, so I've acquired and watched them, and I have to say, they are fantastic! For anyone who hasn't been watching the first series on Channel 4, what are you thinking?! Fortunately the third ep is on Wednesday night, so don't have to wait too long to get my fix. I obtained the last series in one go, so was able to watch the whole thing over about 3 days. I'm going to have to be more patient this time. Oh well.

I've covered it before, but I feel like I should cover it again, Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning is now available for download. And downloading it I am. The BitTorrent is coming in at the full speed my cable modem will allow, so only 15 mins to go! But I'll watch it later, after I've done some meaningful work today. And no doubt I'll have something to say about it when I've seen it.