I learned to rip mp3's using windows media player. I just needed to change my export format in windows media player. I got mp3 files for Woody Guthrie and Bruce Cockburn. I can play these on my new PSP. I also got a Pelican carrying case for my PSP. I can't play my iTunes yet on my PSP. The PSP screen really is very good and I have been watching the demo movie Spiderman 2.

I have installed the latest Apple security update on my eMac. I tried to install solaris 8 on my duron but the video card was not supported. I have installed scientific word and scientific notebook as demo copies. I have also purchased Notron Internet security 2005. I have downloaded Windows 2000 and Map Point 2004 from the msdn server. I will burn the mapping software today to disk. As a math student at Carleton we are given free copies of microsoft software.

I hot synced my palm late last night. I uploaded some pdf files about computer crime and also about using Perl for statistics to my palm.

I downloaded sceintifc notebook and scientific workplace as trial copies.

I updated my studies blog and burned a back up CD. I also transfered homework to my memory key so I can work on it at school. I printed lecture notes and meeting previous minutes for two meetings I have today as a volunteer.

I know a little bit more about using R now. I got some homework done in data mining using R. I also taught SAS coding this week just past. I also bought a second copy of the Little SAS book at a medical bookstore.

I printed out back up copies of my blogs. I should now be doing a back up of the data on my hard drives with CD's. I have been thinking of buying a DVD burner but find I need firewire or at least USB 2.0 to use a DVD burner. Just like CD burners more power is needed to get them to work properly.

I installed French for Dummies on my winxp laptop. I did try again to install WinXP pro on the duron but failed and then tried Win98 but failed then went back to Debian. I have been using R and Ggobi. To document my work with Ggobi I have used alt-print screen and pasted the active window capture into an Open Office presentation. I showed ggobi to my nephew and niece.

I am interacting with the federal government on-line. I took minutes of a large union meeting with my Palm W. I will also have a union meeting this week on Wednesday and keep minutes of this upcoming meeting on the union office's laptop as usual. I just hotsynced my Palm. I will prepare my monthly backups later tonight.

Saturday morning I began my data mining homework by printing some histograms and pairs plots. I also read about Tibetan Guerillas fighting the Chinese in the 1950'.

I read a little of the Linux journal. I ran my Fedora machine tonight just to chat with a friend using Gaim. Now I am going to read about laytex and tex and write a mini paper on privacy.

For some reason as yet unknown I have lost all my netscape bookmarks on my WinXP laptop.

I upgraded skype on my WinXP laptop. I also updated iTunes on the laptop.

I upgraded the Netscape www browser on the Quadra to v 4.06. This is the highest I think can go with a 68 K mac. I also installed Illustrator 6.0 on the Quadra. I also copied some other older Mac programs and files I had stored on floppy for about 6 years.

I have been working on the eMac more tonight. I priced an 8 port linksys switch and a net connected hard drive. I also need a license for Norton Internet Security. I also want a multi card reader from Iomega.

I am thinking of getting a new 8 port Linksys switch. I am also thinking of buying a 250GB net drive for off loading my WinXP laptop and doing email back up.

I am back on my mac and an old friend will be buying the Quadra 800.

I am just about to burn my monthly back up CD. I made hard copy of my blogs Tuesday morning.

I got the Macintosh Quadra hooked up to the Internet but need to download a more recent version of Netscape for this older computer. It only has Netscape 3.0.1 right now and it does not work on the apple.com homepage.

My computers are running fine. My eMac updated itself with iTunes 4.7.1 and a security update. My Quadra 800 is now running Mac OS 8. I have not yet connected it to the Internet. My laptop hard drive is getting full and is almost at 75% full. I do though have two Turbo Linux CD's on it I can delete and some Microsoft CD's I can delete. First, I must burn the CD's and then delete. I got ESS xemac working on the WinXP laptop.

I got a relatively inexpensive SD 64 MB card for my palm. I guess I should get a relativley inexpensive card reader now. The trick with a new card and a palm is to format the card for the Palm first. This can be done by transfering one file in the usual way when the card is in the palm. This formats the card and then one can add files using a card reader and a PC.

I got some more no name ink for two of my Epson printers.

The copy of Mac OS 8 arrived and I installed it on the Quadra with no issues. I used Disk Setup a Mac program to initialise the hard drive which was not an original Mac hard drive. So I now have another 68K Mac to give or sell to someone who needs a computer. It also has a nice colour monitor and colour printer.

My Palm Tungsten W works with Rogers AT&T wireless. I tested it with a Rogers sim card yesterday at a Rogers booth at the mall. Yahoo I can get it doing the Internet over the wireless phone network.

I am just a wanna be engineer at heart. Some of friends are also wanna be engineers. In fact, my ethinc background in Canada is full of engineers. I talked with another engineer who also has schizohrenia when I got off work on Sunday morning and he was off to church.

Yahoo is doing well and IBM is also doing well. There are service jobs at IBM I could apply for. In fact I need to focus my career a bit more perhaps not around computers but instead law enforcment.

I could not install Open Office on the Macintosh because of some Free Fonts issue. I could not get grass 5.4 to run under cygwin. I could do all the install steps for cygwin and grass 5.4 though. I did successfully install Open Office 1.1.4 on the Win XP laptop. I also was able to install a 10 day demo of Grammarian Pro x on the eMac. I have not tried my new version of grass on the eMac.

I learned a directory address with a space such as My Documents can be refered to by inclosing it in single quotes in a call directory command. Thus cd 'My Documents' works whereas cd My Documents does not.

I read a legal paper on cyber pornography that covered European legislation. I search Computers and Society and also some other ACS journals. I printed numerous articles at least 8 articles for my law paper and my data mining course. I actually read one article just now too. I loaded some new journal pdf's to my plam and would need a SD card to add more papers for my Palm. I tried to activate my Palm cell phone but I need a sim card for sure for that.