Trying to buy a Xybernaut computer.

Xybernaut computers are starting to show up on ebay.ca. I am bidding on a Mav unit now. This would be perfect for my bike. I was bidding on a Poma unit but am no longer interested in that model. I will see about buying the Mav unit and might have to spend about 400 dollars for this unit.

I was successful at installing Debian 3.0 r 2 onto the Compaq Presario 1210 Pentium 1 150 Mhz computer.

Well after numerous runs of tasksel the OS finally installed. I have an emergency boot diskette. I have a root account and a user account. I have gotten X windows working and set the background and random screen saver. I have also surfed the net with the PCMCIA ethernet card. I have also corrected the time on the system.

I am getting somewhere with installing Debian 3.0 r 2 on the old Pentium 1 Compaq Presario 1210.

I was able to get the base install and get to tasksel with Debian 3.0 r2. The real problem with this old laptop is the CD drive is not functioning very well. A replacement drive might allow better behaviour. I am slowly getting packages installed but the CD drive keeps getting a read error and I must run tasksel repeatedly. But right now packages are slowly being installed.

The problem now could come from the security updates from the Internet adjusting the distribution up from Woody to Etch and I don't want that to happen.

I am installing a trial version of Photoshop CS3 and also installed a graphic resizing widget for dashboard.

In an attempt to resize graphics for use at cafepress I downloaded and am installing a trial version of Photoshop CS3 on my Macbook and also installed on my eMac a Dashboard widget for resizing graphics. The widget worked and I have a custom T-shirt now with the R-project logo available to purchase but no money to buy it. I will now also install the resizing widget on my Macbook.

That darn Compaq laptop.

I tried in vain to install Linux in flavours of Debian 3.1, 4.0 and then Xandros and then Corel Linux. The Corel was the most successful but the lilo would not start on reboot after install. I may give one last shot today with Red Hat 6.2 and may be I will try Debian 3.0 before that last shot.

Toshiba 4010 CDT bought and then given away.

I bought a Toshiba 4010 CDT laptop for 30 dollars plus 20 dollars shipping. I had intended to use this laptop with French keyboard to install Linux. Instead seeing that it came with a fresh install of windows 2000 I gave it away to a poor friend.

Using my Palm Treo for music.

I bought a stereo adapter as it is known for the Palm Treo 600. I bought it from Bell World. It cost 11 dollars and change. I was able to listen to some Beatles songs but the other songs I had initially transfered to the SD card were mp4a's and would not play in Pocket tunes the application that the Palm uses to play music. So I searched out a file conversion tool and found Max 0.7.1 and am now converting some CKUT anarchism audio files I ripped this week. I bought them last week at the Montreal Anarchist book fair. I am also converting some Ry Cooder music from the album My Name is Buddy.

The Macbook back up is completed now.

I backup up the Macbook to an external hard drive again.

I checked the LaCie harddrives fior viruses.

I checked the two LaCie hard drives for viruses. It took a few days but it worked in the end. Most viruses found were in emails and were all windows viruses. These emails I never opened nor did I ever get infected with the viruses. Most were SoBig and Doom viruses.

I claimed this blog on technorati.

I claimed this blog on technorati.

Back ups.

I have an external hard drive hooked up to the Macbook. I am backing up the Macbook to the external hard drive. I have copied the Desktop and Documents folders to the external drive. On top of this I am using the LaCie back up software to back up the user account that I use on the Macbook.

For the eMac I copied the desktop and Documents folders to a different external hard drive. I will now use the LaCie software to back up the user account on the eMac. To do this I will need to delete the former back up and then do the back up.

I have trouble burning disks of files and folders on my Macs.

I was not able to burn back up disks of my Macs. For now I must do this with hard drives rather than DVD's. I had used CDs, and DVD's since 2003 with my Thinkpad and my first eMac. Macs: "it just doesn't work".

Social networking today.

I joined facebook today and added people with my last name and two coworkers as friends. I believe I need to respond to another coworkers invite from awhile ago.

Back ups today.

I am backing up my iTunes library to 8 double layer DVD disks. I am also backing up my Macbook and my eMac to double layer disks today.

I am giving up today trying to install Debian 4.0 r 0 on the old compaq.

I gave up trying to install Debian 4.0 r 0 on the old Compaq Pentium 1 laptop for today.

For coworkers today.

I searched in iTunes just now for jazz records for a coworker. For another coworker with really bad health luck meaning rare disease issues, I am burning a driver CD for a wireless Linksys card I gave her.

Both of my Mac's are working well but my Linux laptop will not install Debian 4.0 r 0 cleanly.

I have been using my Macs every day now and they are both working just fine. I have been trying to install Debian 4.0 r 0 on the Compaq Pentium 1 computer. This is a very early model Pentium with the Pentium flaw. So far the install does not work. It can not get beyond the base system install. I think it is the CD drive that is broken on this computer. It is old but has not seen a lot of use.

I was tested on my ability to use Excel, Word, Page Maker and Distiller at work.

I wrote an exam at work on a computer to see if i can use Excel, Word, Page Maker and Distiller. I think I did ok but not perfect.

I used Word Press again today.

I used Word Press to archive some union meeting minutes. I am using Word Press recently but not for personal blogs only on the union site. I have an account at an educational blog site that uses Word Press but barely use it.

I was able to make a link to Konquorer on my KDE desktop.

I was able to create a start up link for Konquorer the KDE browser and start the browser and surf the internet.

I bought PageMaker 6.5 for the Mac.

I may have to use Page Maker at work. For about 30 dollars I was able to buy Page Maker 6.5 from an ebayer in California. This is totally legal reuse of software. I installed it on my eMac. I have not run it yet.

More success with KDE on the Macbook

I started X11 again and started the KDE desktop again. I apple clicked the desktop and up popped some choices. I opened the configure the desktop choice and changed the background and created 5 desktops. I am now installing Kartwork and will have a screen saver soon. I also tried using the combination apple key with the Q key and sure enough X11 quit. So I can now just start X11 to get to the KDE desktop. Of course navigating in XTerm to sw/bin and then issuing this command ./kdesktop. I can also and quit it so I have in and out access now to a standard Linux desktop on my Mach Linux Mac. I am now going to try to use Fink to install more programs and then might try kPackage.

I am working on KDE for the Macbook this morning. I got KDE desktop started!

I was not following anyone's instructions but by moving to the root folder in x-term then moving to the sw folder then the bin folder I ls'd the folder and tried starting a few things. Using this command ./kdesktop I got the desktop to start but what happened was all files and folders on the Mac book appeared on the desktop as icons.

I search google for "mac kde fink" and found www.racoonfink.com Tales of the Racoon Fink. I sent the author of that blog an email.

I reconditioned my Macbook battery and my iPod battery.

I ran my Macbook on battery power until it was drained and then powered it up again. I also ran my iPod down playing over 3000 classical music pieces to itself overnight. This should recondition the batteries on both Apple products.

I burned the 8 Debian 4.0 r 0 CD disks and will now burn the one net install disk.

I burned the 8 CD's I downloaded today and yesterday. I decided to also download CD disks 9 and 10 but had BitTorrent errors on disk 10. For now I will only burn the net install disk and try to install that on the Compaq after work. Right now I am busy studying probability notes from my applied probability course.

Debian 4.0 has been released.

I am only a few days late for getting Debian 4.0 but this is probably a good time to download it. I am using bittorrent and have downloaded the first CD and almost all the second CD now. I will only download the first 8 CD's at first. I will leave my bittorrent on now overnight so I am sharing the CD's as well as downloading them. This copy of Debian will be installed on my old Pentium 1 Compaq laptop. This laptop does not connect to the Internet after a Debian install but will connect as it installs. Perhaps the new version of Debian will fix this Internet connection issue for this older laptop.

The Macbook battery from Futureshop was dead and did not work.

I phrased my last post about the Macbook battery with the words "I hope to" because I had my doubts about buying a battery from Futureshop. And sure enough the battery was dead and did not work in the Macbook. So I returned it. Futureshop are generally good with new technology but batteries have limited shelf life and I suspect they bought this battery almost a year ago from Apple. I have bought both PSP batteries and camcorder batteries from Futureshop with no issues. So this is a first.

The battery for my Macbook

The battery for my Macbook does not seem to be working. I will call Apple support to see what is wrong. Perhaps I have not installed it correctly.

I have all but one part to affect the solar powering of my Treo 600 now.

I have purchased the car charger for my Treo 600 and it is in the mail to me. I have also purchased a solar charger. I now just need the charger to 12 volt car adapter cable. Then I will be able to charge my Treo from the sun.

I am hoping to buy an extra battery for my Macbook.

Futureshop.ca had a sale this weekend and I hope to be getting a Macbook battery I ordered just last night.

I am using LaCie's back up software to make a back up of my eMac.

I used LaCie's software to back up my eMac. I will also back up my Macbook now on my other LaCie 250 GB hard drive.

Real Sony stuff.

I now own two Sony PSP UMD disk cases which hold 8 UMD disks each. I may buy two more as these are now on sale.

On-Line Chess Kingdoms

I bought the game On-Line Chess Kingdoms for my PSP. It was on sale at Future Shop.

Programming studies continuing.

I did more programming in R this past few days. I now have successful random walks in 1, 2, 3, and 4 dimensions and have interactive plots for 1, 2, and 3 dimensions stable for runs of 1000 steps. I can not get a stable interactive plot in 4 dimensions. I also tried diagonal and axis walking random walks. This should be 4 walks with both diagonal and axis walking for 8 walks but for each walk I have an interactive and non-interactive walk for total of 16 R programs. I have 11 done now and must do three more 1 dimensional walks and 2 more 4 dimensional walks. The interactive walks plot the steps at each step and the non interactive draw a plot at the end of the walk showing the path of the walk after all steps are taken.

I again was sucessful progamming in R.

I did manage to complete the second part of three parts of a programming assignment in R. I now have a 2 dimensional random walk programmed. I have two versions of the presentation one that meets the professor's requirements and one that shows the tendency to return to zero well. But R crashes when running the simulation 100,000 times.

My idea now is to have two random walkers and start one walker later and see if the two walkers meet.

About two weeks ago now I installed the Matrix on-line game on my eMac under Win2K

After I cleared off the movies from the hard drive of the eMac I was able to install the game the Matrix on-line. I just was able to sign up for an account then could not find my credit serial number so did not play. I would also like to learn the rules of this game before playing. I am not happy that it is fighting game but really interested in the on-line nature of gaming as a research area. Recently I have studied hackers and on-line computer crime. This was a topic of study for my fourth year honours paper in legal studies.

I programmed in two different languages this morning.

Although Stella is not really a language but more of an environment I did some programming in Stella yesterday evening. It really just involved conditional statements to create a game simulation which is the main part of my term paper in my economic systems design course. So having done the base game last night I must now add populations and algorithms for choosing game strategies based on our course material. For now I have a different strategy selection rule and maybe I could examine this strategy selection rule and describe the solutions and pay offs as an original alternative to copying the course material.

I also programmed in R and again made a simulation but this time did in fact copy the code from a professor although I did the copying from memory and actually researched in R help files each command and created more to the program than the professor had written quickly on the blackboard on Wednesday. So it may not have taken my complete own initiative but in the end I programmed in the sense of implementing some code and getting it to work. To complete this R project I must design a graph of the results and then do a write up for a general non expert audience.

Since writing my first entry today on this blog I have rewritten my web master resume using

and printed and proof read 1 copy of the new resume. I will now email it and some other documents to my work email and go in early this morning to work to complete this job application.

Just perfecting a resume this morning for a publication job.

My publications career is opening up a bit. I maintain one job as a publisher of a web site. I did some social work yesterday for this job. I talked on the phone and in person with bloggers who will in the future blog on the site I publish. I also am applying for a publications job at my present workplace. The wages would not be that much more than I am earning now but the work could be more challenging in a creative way I hope. I also see more future in this and this application will be my second this month for publications work.

I deleted some movie files after backing them up to CD and also an external hard drive.

I don't like taking files off my main machine. I realize keeping everything on my main machine is risky. I do this though. Today I hope to burn my first double layer DVD. But I need hard drive space to get the files together for burning in a burn folder. I also planned to delete these movie files and had begun to back them up last week.

Today's computing

I am burning some back up DVD's on my Macbook and will also use the LaCie software that came with my LaCie hard drives to back up the Macbook user account. I am backing up the Macbook user account regularly because it is a small enough folder to save multiple copies on the external hard drive. I am also mailing back up DVD's to my father today along with a family copy of iWorks 2006. I also am doing the usual email and blogging and web surfing today.

The scanner is working and nothing seems amiss.

I got the scanner to work and did what I had to do using jpeg images from the scanner and printing these files opened in safari.

I am making some backup DVD's of my documents folder today.

I have made a number of backups but am making some documents folder back up DVD's this morning.

I ran out of ink for my Brother copier and am installing my Canon scanner model FB630U.

I was browsing the canon.ca web site for drivers and did not even see the MacOSX drivers. I am now downloading those and will try those instead of the Mac OS 9 drivers and Canoscan tool box I just installed. The problem is that my Brother multifunction printer is out of ink and can not copy right now. So I am reverting back to my scanner for photocopying.

I am backing up my eMac user account today.

I am using LaCie back up software to back up my eMac this evening.

A total of ten DVD's burned.

I made five copies each of two DVD folders. Three copies will stay here in my office and the other two will be sent to a trusted secure off site location. In other words to a family member for storage. These two DVD's contain back up copies of my Macbook and eMac Desktop folders from various periods during last year. So they are sort of archived folders rather than quick back up folders. Quick back up restore files are on external hard drives in my office.

Stella 5 and 9

I used Stella 5 and 9 at school last Tuesday. I will investigate paying for Stella now.

I have two school provided softwares now installed on my Macbook.

I have installed Norton Anti-Virus 10 on my Macbook. I also run a Cisco VPN now on my Macbook. Both of these were provided by my school and I downloaded them to the Macbook while in the library at school.

Teaching a friend about MySpace.

My friend has problems with spy wear and stuff like that on his PC. Meaning he has trouble operating a PC. He is now using Firefox which may help him a bit. I showed him MySpace on my Macbook connected to my TV so he could watch me surf. I gave him warnings and showed him the friends links in MySpace and I also showed him MySpace music and how you can play music on band page at MySpace. Literacy is the issue.

Vista will not work on a virtual PC on my eMac.

Aparently the virtual PC on my eMac is not enough of a machine to run Vista. So for now this copy of Vista I have is being saved. I am thinking of buying another used IBM computer but might also buy a refurbished machine from futureshop. A used Desktop from IBM might be about 400$. A used Thinkpad might be about 700$.

KDE on a Macintosh

Using Fink I installed the base KDE system. Now when I start X11 X windows displays an xterm window. I still don't have KDE in all its glory but I am closer to that goal.

Nothing much new on my home machines, but I did continue with the redesign of my home office.

I have not been doing much new with my home equipment. I just did some back ups of the Macbook. I will also check on doing some back ups of the eMac too this weekend. I may play some Second Life later today or over night.

I did help my neighbour by transfering the old files and folders from her Win 95 machine to her Thinkpad. I also got the Thinkpad outlook express working for her email. She paid me a bottle of alcohol which I gave away to another radical graduate student.

In my web master job I set up some blogs for more people using moveable type at yahoo hosting. I also gave these people a teaching session in person to explain blogging and get them interested. They gave me their on-line nick names during the in person session and I set up most of thier blogs now and just need to set up one more blog.

I cleaned up my office some more and am getting a fresh look to my office.

My iPod is up to date and powered up for a day of listening at work.

I thought my iPod was broken as two pairs of earphones did not play the right side of the stereo tracks. So I tried different earphones but they were dead too. I thought my iPod was broken but it still played stereo on the Harmon Kardon receiver. Instead, I used my PSP and also on the PSP the right side was dead. In the end it turned out two pairs of earphones were dead. I am now using my original PSP earphones with my iPod and this works fine. So my next computer related purchase might be some new iPod earphones and at the same time I might buy from Apple a mini-DVI to DVI adpater to use with my Macbook.

I now have a copy of Windows Vista Business Edition burnt.

My school pays Microsoft so students can have legal copies of microsoft software. I was able to download and burn a copy of Windows Vista business edition. I am not sure how I will use this copy but perhaps I will save it to use with Leopard on my Macbook. For now I can only install it in my virtual PC on my eMac but since I only have one copy of Vista I may save it for the Macbook.

In other OS news I am trying to install KDE on my Macbook which is a major challenge I am finding.

Networking a virtual PC

I was able to network my virtual win 2K PC on my eMac with my laptop. I am doing this to transfer the Vista ISO image to my macbook for burning onto DVD.

Using Fink Commander and trying to install gimp and also KDE.

While trying to install gimp and gaim using fink commander I got X11 windows working on the Macbook. Inspired by this I am trying to install KDE on the Macbook. But I am having problems.

I am also downloading Vista business edition for my eMac. I will run this windows version in Virtual PC.

Working with dreamweaver on the youphone.ca web site index page

I added a small logo to this index page and started entering the footer information. This page will become the template for the other pages on the web site.

Social networking web site use today

I used Linkedin today and linkedin with someone new whom I don't know. He picked me based on some comments I made about wall mart. I also created an account for our band at myspace.

I have registered a new domain and have started to work on a web site for it.

I registered www.youphone.ca inspired by cyberpsych and the PDA guy in their iPhone podcast. Apple computers have already managed to buy www.iPhone.org to point to apple.com.

I used dreamweaver to start to design a web site for my new domain. Right now www.youphone.ca points to my radical www.cyborgcitzen.org web site. I had also thought of buying the French translation www.vousphonez.ca but held off on this for now. I am becoming more of a bilingual web master these days and have at least one bilingual web site I publish.

I am now using Firefox more often.

I have started to use FireFox more often. It is a very good web browser and seems to perform better than Safari.

Latest tech purchase: a 17 inch widescreen monitor.

I purchased a 17" widescreen monitor that also has a TV tuner. So now I can watch TV at my desk. This monitor has a small desktop footprint. It is also looks great and is a Sony MFM-HT75W. It has all the monitor connections it needs like VGA, S-video and DVI. It also has component, coaxial and RCA, TV inputs. The only connection in modern TV connectors that it is missing is HDMI. But I could do HDMI via the DVI with an adapter. So some of those cables I bought for the projector are now helping me hook up this new small HDTV/monitor. It works with my Macbook.

Adding titles to posts on this blog for better rss feeds on my screen saver.

I added a title field to the post editor on this blog. I also have this on my other blogger blogs. This allows a better view when I use the RSS screen saver in Mac OS 10.4. This helps me proof read the beginning of blog posts without having to use my hands. I can watch the posts float by on the screen saver. But without a title field this blog was problematic on the screen saver. This is finally fixed.

I am thinking of buying a cheap work bench for my office.

I am deleting over 1,200,000 files on my eMac2. It has taken about 100,000 files / day to secure delete these files.

With my Garmin foretrex 101 GPS unit I have collected 12 waypoints. This morning I edited the numbered waypoints to names and chose appropriate symbols for each waypoint.

I have thought of having a blackboard for second life that could be used to write LaTeX. I would then sell this Blackboard and market it in Second Life. I posted this goal on the second life blog under the open source announcement on that blog. Because most of the software involved would be open source I would also need to give the Blackboard away for free at the same time.

A fellow has commented on my blog about a technique for using LaTeX on blogger. I may spend some time implementing this solution this morning.

Here is a link to his original post LaTeX on blogger http://servalx02.blogspot.com/2007/01/latex-on-blogger.htmland the same post I think in French LaTeX dans blogger at http://wolverine-mathematic.blogspot.com/2007/01/latex-dans-blogger.html.

I accidentally flagged his blog as objectable content because I forgot what flagging meant on the blog pages at blogger. I meant to add it to a blogger bookmarks system which of course does not exist. I hereby appologize to this blogger user.

I am setting aside this evening for computing. This reminds me I should phone someone and help her with computing tonight. I just called and she is tired tonight, so this help will wait until tomorrow or Sunday.

My office redesign continues. I am using the new computer desk and one of two desks that are being taken out of my office is now out of the office and waiting for a friend to pick it up for her use. The other desk has still not been moved.

The office will possibly get a new TV that will also function as a second computer monitor.

I copied the user folder from my old eMac to another location on a different external hard drive and also to the computers folder in the documents folder on the new eMac. So I now have three copies of this user folder in back up. I also copied the entire computers folder to the new LaCie hard drive. I believe I also have burned this computers folder to DVD in the past so many files in this folder of older computer files are well backed up.

I also used the LaCie back up software to again back up the user folder on the new eMac, eMac2. But I can not yet make multiple copies of this user folder but only have enough space for one copy at a time.

I helped my neighbour again on Sunday morning. I copied files from her old computer running Win95. I copied about 12 MB of files using 9 floppies. These files were from her volunteer work and the volunteer work of a deceased person. I now need to bring my USB floppy drive over to her place and copy these floppies to the thinkpad. She has agreed to buy the Thinkpad and started to pay for it yesterday.

I did go ahead with getting a GPS unit.

The IBM Thinkpad has been loaned to a neighbour. She did not have a computer so I loaned her my Thinkpad. I swapped out my Linux hard drive and put in the original 20 GB drive with Windows XP. I installed Office 97 and Publisher 97 on the computer.

Annual Backups continue

I just now copied the Desktop and the Documents folders to one of the new LaCie hard drives. I did yesterday burn three DVD's with the documents folder minus movies and the computer(s) folder. The computers folder contains all the old files from previous computers.

I am not buying the projector after all. I need to stop all this spending on computer parts and debiting at 28% interest. I was so prepared with cables and researching adapters and already having the portable screen. But the projector is so expensive I would rather buy a gas powered vehicle or fix up my bicycle with fenders, racks and a GPS.

Annual backups

I am just backing up the eMac to multiple locations but mainly today I am backing up the documents folder to three copies of DVD's.

I was lucky or again predicted that the projectors would be on sale at the electronics store. I am having to borrow to buy this item and the money won't be ready until Thursday or Friday. I am now just hoping the store does not run out of projectors. The deal is a 200$ less price and a bonus 72 inch pull down screen. Home movies here we come. Of course, at the cost of new debit.

I backed up my two present macs to the new LaCie hard drives using the LaCie back up software. I also copied files of the failing Iomega firewire drive to the new drives. I also double backed up the old user account from the old eMac which I now call eMac 1.

I used stfp and vi on my eMac to update a web page. I had few issues and everything went well and took less than a hour.

I am developing a positive on-line relation with another computer scientist in Second Life and she has shown me the ICT library where I finally got a free URL launch script. She also stopped me from shopping in Second Life and it is a non sexual reationship. So good clean fun is happening in Second Life. So now I will add this URL launch script to the computers I buy for my virtual offices. I also cashed in Linden dollars to help pay for my account fees. Thus at the moment I have lowered my Second Life costs. I still don't make sales or have a job in Second Life but I am really enjoying the design of my offices and some seemingly random visitors have said the place looks cool. "Cool costs me money? as the IBM TV add goes but it is also fun to build this on-line office.

I really know what's going on at computer stores these days. I rightly predicted or waited for sales of LaCie 250 GB hard drives and thus we got me two for christmas. I also managed to put away until January a Linksys USB hard drive Lan device at another store now that these are coming off the market and have dropped 30 dollars in price. Thus the two hard drives will be network accessible. I am using a lot of space now on my present hard drives with movies and also multiple computer backups. Also one drive is about to fail and gives me slow operation on my eMac when the drive is connected.

I did internet computing for the last few hours. Including joining U Tube. I converted some videos and updated our iPods. My brother has launched a small graphics site here (http://www.timusk.com/desktop/).

I uploaded a home weather video to UTube today. It should be here.

I installed Brother printer drivers for my MFC420CN on my Linux laptop. I also bought yet another printer this time for its duplex printing abilities.

The eMac is ready to go. I have set it up with Mac OS X 10.3 and have installed X code and X11.

I am just doing a regular back up for my mail folder on my main master computer my new eMac. I am thinking of getting a Mac Pro machine but this would be about a 5,000 dollar investment including monitors and hard drives.

I first backed up the user on the eMac and then reinstalled the original MacOS X 10.2 software. Then I upgraded to Panther Mac OS X 10.3. I then installed X Code and X11. This computer is now ready for my friend to take home. She is presently the volunteer web mistress for the Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group. I hold a sort of membership in this group.

I was given a Second Life script that launches a web browser and opens a URL. I want to use a few of these scripts in objects in my Second Life design offices.

I upgraded BootCamp drivers on my Macbook a week ago. This means I can now use my iSight and my microphone on my Macbook while using WinXP.

I am giving away my older eMac to a young web designer. I decided I do not need to use my older eMac and will give it away to an old friend who is actually a young web design student.

I used a global find and replace in Dreamweaver to finally change my timusk@magi.com email address on all my personal home page site pages to the correct and permanent National Capital Freenet email address. I do not like changing email addresses because of this web site email links issue.

I paid for a license for documents to go version 9 yesterday morning and this is now functioning on my Palm Treo 600. I have not been using my Palm much as Palm but it is now my main cell phone too. I had some trouble with the filing of contacts on the Palm being all wrong and I am pain stakingly refiling everyone.

I have been using Second Life(SL) successfully quite a bit for the past few weeks. I have tonight been pointed to GNU sites in SL.

I have had connection problems with my network printer on both the Macbook from the beginning and the now the eMac recently. I have been using the new Canon IP90 for most of my printing in the last few weeks. I am giving my mother my Epson 820 printer. I will only have one Epson printer left my 440 with its parallel port connection.

I am making some classical page of links pages for one of my web master sites.

I did some video making and made a family film and then made three copies of a DVD movie which was basically only raw footage of a family reunion. I also printed some family pictures.

Back ups

I was successful at burning a DVD of my email. I now have most of ten years or more of email backed up to 1 DVD disk. I figure before my email back up size becomes bigger than a DVD I will be burning larger dvd's of 8 GB size. I am not sure if my present computers can already do this. I will now try to import all this email into my Macbook mail but not right away.

My computers are working fine. I have learned how to keep my Debian computer updated. I updated windows XP on my Macbook. I also installed the IP90 printer on the windows side of the Macbook. I also hotsynced the palm on the windows computer side of the Macbook thereby installing some medical palm applications but that is not completed. I paid for these medical softwares. I also downloaded a trial version of Documents To Go version 9 and have it working on my Palm Treo 600 now. I took some photos with the Treo of a union picket I attended.

I also made a profile picture with the Second Life viewer camera, of my Second Life avatar and wrote a little blurb for my avatar. I had used Second Life almost every day this past week as I build the web design offices in world and met people in world and through email.

Backups

I am going to back up my mac computers today and start a DVD disk back up process as well as the usual hard drive back up.

Data and TV projectors are indeed coming down in price. I will be able to buy one for Christmas I hope. Already a good quality model that functions for my plans is only 900$, down below 1000$. Speaking of shopping I am thinking of buying an Itronix T5200 for about 60$ plus shipping costs of about 50$. But really I don't have 110$ to spare right now I am still paying for my new TV, the printer, and an iPod for my wife.

I now have a Canon IP 90 but have not used it much yet. It prints perfect photos. I really should buy some more ink for it though and some more photo paper. I should also set it up for use with the WinXP side of this Macbook.

I have been using Dreamweaver regularly now. I did some web mastering this week including using Moving Type at Yahoo for paid work. I have been paid for about 13 hours work on my new web master contract. I am preparing to bill for another ten hours. I also have some work on an older web master contract that must be done. I will get to that this weekend.

I installed a trial copy of Documents To Go version 9 for the Macintosh. This is actually a palm application that allows creation, viewing and use of Microsoft doc, exl, and pps files on the palm. I use the docs feature for keeping minutes at various community group meetings and union meetings. I have not used the Treo that much as a palm although I did some calendar updating, contacts updating, and have also installed all my purchased ebooks and also free ebooks. I have only purchased about three ebooks for the Palm and one was Count Zero by William Gibson. I have though been using the Treo quite regularly as a cell phone. I learned some thing this morning from the palm web site about setting the incoming call sounds. I only really use my cell phone for incoming calls from my wife and in one of my volunteer roles.

Playing Second Life is inspiring

I did some on-line design in Second Life. Really what I did was pay a designer and worked with him to create my SL web design offices. He sold me some desks and then build some cubicle dividers and shelfs. My offices are in Sociaria if you need to look me up and my on-line name is Peter Korgstad. The office is Crystal Computing Web Design. The designer's studio was quite inspiring and had music video screens which I could watch and also a Reuters news feed which always crashed my SL game when I tried to work it. I linked my RL identity with my Second Life identity as I am doing here. This means I am not that worried about on-line privacy. I worry more about the spam from my recent joining of MySpace more than SL. I am now going to test view my new web design offices on my LCD TV.