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My copy of Windows XP runs on an 8 GB disk. At one point, I'd increased the size of the disk to 10 GB, but I've just now discovered that the 2 GB are unavailable and are in another partition.

I'd like to add this space on to the main (C) disk, and this article seemed promising until I got to "From the drop-down list choose a letter to be assigned for the drive, and click Next." I don't want to make an "E" drive. I just want to make Windows XP recognize that my C drive is larger.

In other words, is it possible to re-partition (to add the new 2 GB to my "C:" drive) in Windows XP? Or even to just create a new (larger) disk using some Parallels tool and copy my (existing smaller) disk to it?

Tip calculators are now available for the iPhone.

Seriously, is rounding, doubling, and moving the decimal one place that difficult that people would rather pull out a phone, click a button, slide their finger, scroll to the right page, tap an icon, type some more to enter the bill's total, and read a result from a chart?

If you want 15% instead of 20%, either take 1/4 off or just move the decimal over one on your bill and add another 50%. I usually just try to tip to the nearest whole dollar between 15 and 20% unless an adjustment for poor or spectacular service is needed.

Come on! How stupid do you have to be to need a tip calculator? I'd say lazy, but it's lazier not to use a tip calculator.

Greg Norman, at the age of 53, nearly won the British Open. I kept a live blog for The Sand Trap, but wow. Is this what a Tiger-less world looks like? 53-year-olds nearly winning major championships?

That Michelle Wie simply cannot catch a break. She's on her way towards her first LPGA Tour victory when it's discovered that she didn't sign her scorecard yesterday. Rules are rules, and Michelle was disqualified.

Guess I'll cancel the DVR recording I had set up for tomorrow.

Question: What psychology experiment would you love to carry out if neither ethics nor practical reality stood in your way?

My Answer: I don't know off hand, but I'm going to think about it. I have one in mind that doesn't quite fit the question, and the ones I'm thinking of that would fit the question need some refining. Basically, I'd love to devise an experiment that plays off the rampant sense of entitlement that a lot of people seem to have these days, or one regarding the lack of self-awareness and awareness of those nearby.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

For about a year now, we've had a small albino catfish in our fish tank, and for a year now he's acted as if he's been near death. He'll lie upside down on the bottom of the tank for hours. Or he'll lie pointing straight down. Or on his side. At times he'll go crazy and spin around, dash to the top of the tank, to the bottom, and spin around ten more times.

Carey left the light on in the tank all day a week ago and he was acting even more bizarrely. He had a small cut on his side, too. She thought he was really on his way out this time, but now, after spending a few days with less of the overhead light on, he seems to be back to normal.

Strange, strange fish.

Carey was away on a short vacation recently to Ohio, and I stayed up late one evening to watch three movies I rented from Blockbuster (hey, I had a coupon). They were The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Vantage Point (2007), and Definitely, Maybe (2008).

All were surprisingly good. Rotten Tomatoes gives them 41%, 36%, and bizarrely 73% currently. I'd probably rank them in a similar order but with much higher ratings. None are destined to become a favorite of mine (though D, M may have three of the best lookin' gals in a single movie), and perhaps the ratings I've given them are tainted by low expectations, but if you can nab one cheap (to rent, or on Netflix or something), and they're up your alley, give 'em a try.

I have to quit Safari 4 preview at least once a day, and often several times, because occasionally the app will just bog down, even with only a few tabs open in one window.

Commands - clicks, hitting "cmd-T" or "cmd-N," etc. - take a second or two, and even things like scrolling and switching between tabs become very, very slow. Even dumb stuff like selecting text becomes slooooow.

I like the JavaScript speed version 4 offers, but I wish a new beta would come out soon that addresses the overall speed issue(s).

P.S. Plus, though Inquisitor works, I can no longer use option-return to search Google Images. I'll have to think of another shortcut.

I'm looking to get a few (perhaps four) 1.0 TB drives for my Mac Pro (ouch). Does anyone have any suggestions on which kind to get and where to get them?

Also, any suggestions on what to do with four 500 GB SATA hard disks? The Drobo takes SATA drives, right?

11:19:56: My Drafts folder has 34 saved messages.
12:20:50: 15 messages await. Three were deleted, two or three new ones created (and sent), and the others sent.
12:53:54: 1 message left, and it's a message I can't send for a few days anyway (more of a reminder). So, woo, only about 90 minutes. 🙂

My iDisk was updated (see previous post), but Apple still seems to be having trouble with .Mac and MobileMe.

One
My ".Mac Homepage," which I currently use just to store my scores, still exists at http://homepage.mac.com/iacas/Scorecard/. Replacing "mac" with "me" in the URL doesn't work, so are these sites going to continue to exist at mac.com or are they going to move over to "iacas.me.com" or something? The answer becomes even more unclear when you realize that iWeb publishes to "web.mac.com" (see this).

Two
My calendars don't appear in the me.com site (http://www.me.com/calendar/ ((Apparently, the "www." and the trailing slash are required. If I type anything else, it redirects to /mail/, which is essentially the home page.))).

Three
My "Gallery" (I think it's empty, but who knows) never loads. It just keeps bouncing around between URLs, one of which looks like https://auth.apple.com/authenticate?service=DockStatus&realm=primary-me&returnURL=[80-character string]&destinationUrl=/gallery

Four
MobileMe? Me.com? What do we call this crap? It's only "Mobile" if it has to do with my phone, yeah?

I wish it was blue. Oh well.

P.S. I had to reboot my Mac to get this. Logging out likely would have worked too but I wanted to fix a USB issue ((After a brief power outage that left the Mac Pro on but not my Sound Sticks, I couldn't get sound to play from the Sound Sticks.)) that a log-out wouldn't solve, so I rebooted.

Update: My Mac Pro control panel lists only a 10 GB iDisk, but the MobileMe (me.com) site says I should have nearly 20 GB. What's up with that?

This is the first year I've really fertilized my lawn, and man am I paying for it! I've already mowed more this year than all of last year. I'm firing up the lawn mower once every 2-3 days. Ouch.

I want a Roomba for my lawn. Slap an anti-theft thing on it, modify an invisible dog fence, and voilà! No more trudging around the yard in 80° weather every other day.

Heck, I could even do without the anti-theft device. I'd volunteer to watch the thing if I could program in a pattern or something so it completed the job in 30 minutes. No need for bags - I'd use the thing every two days like I do now and just leave the clippings ("recycled" is what the lawn mower people call it - really it's just thatch).

And the service is currently down.

But I've got the software update, which didn't require a restart thankfully, and my System Prefs show the new icon and wording.

Ho hum.

Oh, and http://homepage.mac.com/iacas/Scorecard/ still works, but http://homepage.me.com/iacas/Scorecard/ does not. Maybe later?