Darn, Barnes and Noble screwed me again. Once again I placed an online order and they insist on shipping it to me piecemeal even after I checked the "ship it all together" option. I can almost understand the last time, as the books were spread apart over six weeks. But this time the availability was within a couple of days so why not wait until they're all ready? Maybe they ship from different warehouses. In any case, the extra shipping cost kills any savings I could possible get from buying the books online and it's darn inconvenient to boot...

BBEdit Lite for Mac OS X was released and it's version 6.1. A bit surprising since BBEdit Lite hadn't been updated since version 4.6 while the commercial version had gone to 6.0, so I wasn't expecting an upgrade. It's now a real Carbon application, with more features than 4.6. And it's just as slow as Cocoa applications because it uses the Aqua windows rather than Carbon. So now I'm back to using BBEdit Lite. Unfortunately I can't make any file types default to BBEdit Lite. Every time I try it goes to Internet Explorer instead so I think it's some sort of Desktop Database or whatever is used in OS X.

It's got a weird bug. When I click out and back into BBEdit, if I have an unsaved document a dialog pops up saying that "one or more files were changed on disk, but were not reloaded because of unsaved changes". Kind of annoying but not unbearable...

I finally saw a Tomb Raider commercial on tv. Would have been much better in a theatre. Looks good though. Angelina Jolie is perfect for the role...

So I put all of my miscellaneous wargames up on ConSimWorld and Starfleetgames to see if anybody wanted them. Not too surprisingly, ConSimWorlders wanted the conventional wargames while Starfleetgamers wanted the scifi wargames. Lots of interest in Champion Hill, the only game by The Gamers that I have there. Strange that, as I didn't think it was all that popular. Next up are my miscellaneous RPGs and then all my old Macintosh games.

Speaking of which, I downloaded JZIP, which is a parser for Infocom games. So now I can play the Infocom games that I have. It's a Darwin port so no Aqua interface. If there was some way I could get Terminal to launch with a specified command line then I could make some sort of double-clickable application for the games. It's strange though. You just feed it the Mac application and it reads it fine. Probably because the code is in the resource fork. Couldn't get Zork Zero to work though since it has three files.

The other old game I got "working" are Defender and Joust. Well, not really the ones I bought, but I figured since I still have them and they used the original ROMs (Digital Eclipse used an emulator rather than recoding the games themselves) then I can use them on MacMAME for OS X. Wow, the current of MacMAME is pretty polished. After a couple of setbacks it works great now...

Man, Java in Classic crashes my machine constantly! Yesterday I must have had a half dozen kernel panics -- and I only get them when running our Java apps in Classic. I really need to get them working under Mac OS X's Java 2...

I bought airplane tickets for Chris so he can get back from GenCon. $530 on America West Airlines. Cheapest I saw was $300 but he'd get back at 01:00 and I'm not making my brother arrive that late. Delta Airlines, which I like for some reason (I think it's either their nice blue color or their nice web site) was like $900+ and it was three different legs.

The thing I hate about Travelocity and Cheap Tickets and some other travel sites I've been to is that they assume you're buying a ticket for yourself. So I go to the sites to look up prices, then go to the airline site to buy the ticket for someone else...