Dood.  It's not a dry heat.  I don't know what the current conditions are at my desk, but I do know it's flippin' hot in here.  I think this must be what it's like to live in Alabama or Georgia or something.  Regardless, I think I may need to go to Walgreens and get a little desk fan.  This sucks and blows all at the same time (not in a good way). 

Happy Birthday to Mr. Bill.  I beieve he's 36 today.  If you see him on the streets of San Francisco (not the TV show), wish him well.

Me: I.T., this is Morgan
Him: Who is this?
Me: This is Morgan
Him: Is this Rico?
Me: No, this is Morgan
Him: Oh, sorry
<hang up>

I just saw this over at Lifehacker, and thought it was cool enough to share.  Everyone knows that a pint is a pound the world around.  But how many golf balls make a pound, or wireless computer mice are in a kilogram?  Well, now you can figure it all out at http://sensibleunits.com/ You can also do normal conversions, if you don't know how many feet are in a yard, or how many cups are in a gallon - you can punch it in and figure it out.  Pretty slick!

Hey, anyone remember RocketMail?  I used to have a RM account… damned if I remember what my login info is anymore.   RocketMail was the cooler verison of Hotmail back in 1996.  Actually they were both pretty cool until they got bought out by the big guys. 

Well anyway, when Yahoo! aquired RM in '97 they stopped allowing people to get RM addresses…. until now!  Recently Yahoo! has decided to allow people to create RocketMail and new YMail accounts.  Of course, I don't really have a need for any of these accounts, but it's cool to see it's back.  So if you're in the market for a new email address, and you hate the ease of use of GMail, or you're tired of the ads on Hotmail, consider getting a RocketMail account. Sure there will be tons of ads on the page, but they will be DIFFERENT ads.  Just signup for a Yahoo account, and you'll get the option of creating a yahoo, ymail, or rocketmail.com email address. 

God, I love CraigsList.  I found a guy on CL selling a Dell GX270 (Pentium 4HT 2.8Ghz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, and other goodies) for a whopping $35.  I didn't have change so he got the whole $40 that came out of the ATM.  Still a screamin' deal. 

I've been experimenting lately with installing OSX on PCs using the guides from the OSX86 Project.  I have a slower Dell (2Ghz P4 - without hyperthreading) PC that I installed OSX on.  However, it ran like crrrap!  I'm really more a PC/Windows guy, but I like using Apple stuff for my music production.  So, I reluctantly installed Windows on the 2Ghz PC, and I was going to start using that.  But now with my latest CL purchase I think I should have a PC that runs OSX well enough to do some tough recording.  Nice!  The real test will be this weekend when I try to load up some old projects to see how well it runs…  if it still craps out on me…  then back to Windows I go. 

I've run Xbench on the Macs I've previously used.  Xbench is a benchmarking system performance rating application.  Basically it tests the computer and gives it a score based on how well it performs.  Here's how they've fared…

Dell Pentium 4 - 2Ghz - 1GB RAM
Score: 21.02

PowerMac G4 - 533Mhz - 768MB RAM
Score: 26.98

Mac Mini G4 - 1.4Ghz - 512MB RAM
Score: 46.51

Dell Pentium 4HT - 2.8Ghz - 1.5GB RAM
Score: 52.82

Mac Mini Intel Core Solo - 1.6Ghz - 1GB RAM
Score: 72.77

So, there ya have it.  The $40 Mac scored higher than the Mac Mini G4 (which was $300), but not as high as my fairly new work computer (which would cost closer to $500 used). 

Howie says I made a good deal.