Computer Woes
It's been a few days since the last post but that's because my laptop blew up and it's taken a while to rebuild it. Apple's new MacBooks got released this week. They look pretty sweet, although I'd really like a smaller machine -- I love the size of my 12" Powerbook, just would like it a little thinner and lighter. Instead, Apple is pushing the bigger screens -- 13" for the MacBooks and 15" & 17" for the MacBook Pros. We'll probably pick up a MacBook for my daughter (she needs one for college in the Fall). Just waiting for SUNY Geneseo to post it on its site to see what educational discount Apple is offering. If I like it maybe I'll see if work will swing for one of them for me this fall so I can start playing with the Intel chip machines.
Not much going on at the moment. Work is crazy -- just finished two weeks of non-stop meetings giving a three-man team from North Plains their marching orders to build our ad agency's new digital asset management system (they market a product called Telescope which is far more robust that the print studio's Xinet system). I get stressed just thinking about this summer; the studio is upgrading its Xinet system (SGI to Sun), switching to a new workorder system, upgrading its software from InDesign CS to CS2, throwing out my homegrown Applescripts and using Triple Triangle's Mechanical Cubed software, and putting in a pilot Telescope setup by August. I don't think I'm going to be spending a lot of time lying around the beach this summer.
Got to go -- I only mowed the front lawn yesterday 'cause I really needed to do some trim work in the front (the neighbors on both sides of us use a lawn service so we were looking a little ragged compared to them). It's suppose to rain today and I need to at least hack the lawn down a bit before the sky opens up.