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FTPeel 1.0.1 is out. The changelog is quite extensive, with fixes, improvements, and new features. No SFTP support - that's coming in a free 1.1 update - but some very nice touches, some nagging things gone, and overall, a very solid update. Everyone is encouraged to update (or buy for the first time of course!).

Nick did most of the work on this while I continue working on a freelance project with Andy. Soon, he and I will get back to working on PulpFiction and MailDrop 2.

Chin Monkeys was one of the funniest things I've seen this year! Ed was good this week. West Wing felt a little cobbled together - it didn't have the cohesiveness of most other episodes, and it felt rushed at the end when they found Zoey and reinstated Bartlet. It was still a good episode, and hopefully they'll get back to their wisecracking ways shortly. Next week, who knows, Leo pisses some people off I guess? William Devane becomes the VP? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

But man, those Chin Monkeys were outrageous!!!

Nearly two weeks ago I won an eBay auction for a GPS. I promptly paid - within minutes of the auction closing - plus $18 for USPS priority shipping and $5 for insurance. Today, my money was refunded to me.

On the 23rd, my item was shipped. The shipper/seller did not provide a tracking number as is given to those who ship USPS priority (with insurance). The "your item shipped" email stated that I should contact them if my item was not received within "7 business days" (substantially longer than USPS priority mail). I did so last night. My auction was one of several similar auctions running at the same time by the same seller.

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I went to bed around 3 this morning, with the alarm set for 6:00. Around 7:45, I woke up. I vaguely recalled shutting off the alarm. So much for being on the lake at the crack of dawn.

Around noon I got my stuff together and headed over to Lake Ida, where I've previously fished alone and with José. On both occasions (and one other to which I don't feel like linking) I caught a "mystery fish" of some kind. See the previous articles for an image or two.

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Question: Do you have Bluetooth anything?

My Answer: I have a Bluetooth PowerBook. I have Bluetooth G5. I have a Bluetooth module (USB) that I used to use on my dual G4. You want it? $25 and it's yours. For the USB module, not the dual G4. Once again, a technology flounders until Apple takes up the charge.

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My dock:

You can see the Finder, CPU Monitor, SpamSieve, Entourage, Safari, Adium, BBEdit, Terminal, Terminal Pal, iTunes, NetNewsWire, and Camino (open here only to view IGN.com, which blows monkey chunks in Safari). I'm not going to link to any of those because, frankly, you know where to find them. And if you don't, you probably know how to type "G-O-O-G-L-E" into your browser's location bar.

Judi has exposed hers in response to an O'Reilly article. Like this chap, my dock is centered on the bottom of my screen with a small magnifying effect. I keep only "always-open" apps in my dock and launch other apps with LaunchBar (whose icon I hid from the dock).

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Someone called me today offering me a chance to win something if I did something. I said "yeah, I'm on the National Do Not Call list, and that started today, so you can be fined." I got the phone number and headed off to the "How to File a Complaint" page at donotcall.gov.

Unfortunately, that page doesn't actually tell you how to file a complaint. Any ideas? For my own knowledge, the phone number is (hidden), and once I mentioned the fine, the guy sure hung up quickly.

The Montana Fucktard, errr, Family Coalition plans to launch a campaign against the TV show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. They call it "trash" that should not be on TV. They go on to say this:

A really good reality show for gay people would be five gay men dying of AIDS.

Though I admire their desire to get AIDS back in the spotlight (sarcasm here, folks), this MFC is so completely fucked in the head that they are the ones dying of a disease. One called "stupidity."

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Every month (since February) I post my site's referral search terms (not what people search for on my site). It's an interesting peek that illustrates "how people are finding me." Here's September's…

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Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 is out now, and I don't know whether to buy it for the GameCube or the PS2. The GameCube version would allow me to play my character against my friend José's character when he buys a copy and brings over his memory card. The PS2 version would allow me to play others online.

I think I'll get the GameCube version. Just not today. I haven't been in a very "video gaming" sort of mood for months now. You can bet your ass that Mario Kart GameCube will awake me from my semi-retirement, though!

For the past year or two I've said quite a few times that I'd move to Canada if it were just a bit further south. I think Chuqi would too given his most recent rant on the government, Bush, and the billions of laws broken. Like Chuqi, people saying "love it or leave it" simply don't get it - that this country should be about the freedom of speech, opinion, etc. to say "I don't like what you're doing right now."

Why can't we recall the Presidency like they recalled the governor in California (right or wrong)? If Americans could have foreseen the current state of affairs, by how much would Gore have won the last election?

Through the years I've tended to align myself with the Republican party pretty nicely - preservation of family values, that sort of thing - but nothing could push me further away from any party than Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft.

Y'know, one of the things I miss about the old OS installer is the ability to install the OS from the CD without having to boot from the CD. You could double-click an installer and install the OS onto another disk while continuing to do your work.

Right now I've got a Firewire drive aching for an OS installation, yet I don't want to kill 45 minutes of my time booting to an installer CD and running the installers. I want to get work done during those 45 minutes.

So what gives? It's not piracy protection - a disk image, if burned properly, is just as bootable as an OS install disk. It's not that the install spans multiple CDs - several software packages handle this properly. What are the reasons that prevent me from being able to launch the installer as we did back in the days of yore?

Question: How fast can your computer rip your MP3s or AACs?

My Answer: 20x.

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I stopped in at a Cingular store today to see what new phones were available. The answer: none. My Motorola v60t is still quite nice in comparison to the "lineup" of TDMA phones that Cingular tries to push on people. It would have been a fruitless trip had I not noticed the eight or ten new phones on the back counter, including some of the Sony-Ericsson phones (like the T610).

I asked the manager why he had those phones (they ain't TDMA!) and he said "we'll be GSM next Tuesday." I asked if he had any phones in (I'd buy one!) and he said "just these dummy phones for now." I asked if they were sharing T-Mobile's network (I'd heard that previously), and the manager emphatically denied that they would be sharing. He said "T-Mobile uses GSM 1900, and we're using the better 850 standard. Your coverage will be as good or better than it currently is on our TDMA network."

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Question: Do you have a land line or just a cell phone?

My Answer: I have a land line, and it's the only number I give out. I forward calls to my land line to my cell phone when I'm out.

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