Darn it, I killed my Angband character again. That's what I get for watching television when I'm playing. My best character yet, 37th level Warrior with four artifacts who got down to the 35th level. She had an AC of 103, five attacks a round at +43 to hit, +57 damage. Rods of Recall, Detection and Speed. Max Strength and Charisma, almost max everywhere else. Ah well, time to start again...

We had a power outage Monday. There was this great lightning storm that a bit after 17:00, though it didn't get really fierce for a few hours. But then I was working at the 2nd floor lab and the power went out. It's almost 21:00, practically no one around except for a couple of the QA girls. Well, can't do any work now. Too bad my computer is on the 9th floor. Trudge up the stairs, turn off a couple of items, trudge down the stairs. And today they mention that the elevators were working at the time. Aargh!...

Speaking of which, Thales died again. A bit of a hard disk failure, a couple of bad blocks. But now it won't boot. So I spent a couple of hours Sunday night setting up Jennifer to start taking Dave's mail and redirecting web requests to an error page. It's so sad that we only had one drive in Thales. And now with Dave gone for at least another month, well at least I don't have Thales sucking up electricity.

And I forgot that Thales is a backup nameserver for chaosium.com, cause now Jennifer is getting a lot of those requests. I thought that dns requests went to the primary server and then on down -- Thales is number three and last on the list. Of course since Jennifer doesn't have the chaosium ip addresses it just goes back to the Net to look up the requested address. At least after that it caches it for a while. Boy chaosium gets a lot of requests...

Mac OS X 10.1 will be available Saturday. You can either order it for $20 or pick it up from an Apple retailer for free, though I'm sure those copies will quickly run out. I may just buy a complete copy so I can do a clean install in one go, much easier than installing and the upgrading. This will be an opportunity to start fresh since I've installed so much software on Mac OS X. It was such a new system that I downloaded anything that looked interesting, much like I did with Mac OS. Then with Mac OS I learned not to just download everything and I'm sure I'll learn to do the same with Mac OS X.

And with another copy of Mac OS X I can install that on Jennifer too. Not that I know how to set up anything other than Apache, and even that is a bit iffy. But then again it would open up Jennifer to being hacked. I'm just glad as I see the nimda virus trying to hack into Jennifer that of course it fails since Jennifer isn't Windows NT. I don't have the time to make sure Jennifer remains patched up and secure. Though it would be great to have only one operating system to maintain...

Once again I'm up late watching my tapes. Way too much tv means I have to watch at least three or four hours a night just to have only a dozen hours to watch on Sunday. I'm pathetic. It's tough and used to be much easier when I worked less and didn't have a long commute either. I saw the JAG season opener. Hmm, looks like they're going to develop the Mac-Harm relationship. Too bad. They're great friends in an almost platonic relationship. Rare in television these days...

Apple announced this really cool product. AppleScript Studio. It looks like an IDE for AppleScript, including a GUI builder. Not too many details yet since it won't be avaiable for another couple of months. But you're supposed to be able to make full applications with it. Well, technically you could do that already with ScriptEditor. But with Studio you can have a nice interface too.