Now that I’ve got a ‘Book back, I’d much rather hit all of my email in one place, so with the help of Hawk Wings, I discovered this handy-dandy guide for getting your gMail in Apple Mail. So now I’m downloading six months worth of gMail into my ‘Book… Wish me luck. 😉
Well, it looks like it was just the power adapter after all, thankfully. The guys at MBS left the MacBook connected to a known good power supply overnight, and eventually it charged up. Plus, I got my new power supply via Airborne this morning— and surprisingly enough, they actually rang the doorbell and handed it to my wife, instead of just throwing it at the door and running like they usually do. So, good news all around.
Even better than Macintel, I am enjoying the new acronym ICBM— in this case meaning Intel Chip Based Mac.
Which begs the question: Is it really an acronym if you can’t actually pronounce it, or is it then just an abbreviation? If so, is there another special term for those? (rummage). Well, looks like Merriam and Webster will allow it. Acronym it is.
So, yay! —upgraded to WordPress 2.0. Expecting the minions of hell to overrun my system any time now, but for the moment, it feels good, it feels clean. I hope the spammers aren’t drawn to its scent. Colophon’s screwed up, but… Meh. I’ll fix it at some point. It’s probably not even accurate anymore.
Soon after I had plugged in my brand new MacBook Pro, it died. Sorta. Film at 11.
UPDATE
As best we can piece it together, what happened was this: Thursday morning, when I first plugged in the MagSafe connector from the power adapter, it went from green to red, not amber like I thought. I […]
My first 48 hours with the new Intel CoreDuo Mac mini have unfortunately been somewhat disappointing. Don’t get me wrong—The mini itself is great, I love Front Row, and the fact that I’ve got an optical audio out built-in instead of an Edirol box hanging off the side of the mini is amazing. (BTW, if […]
