Sometimes the world is cruel and other times everything goes your way. Sometimes something good happens despite all odds against it. Or sometimes good stuff just happens quietly.
Good Things
Buying something and getting more money handed back to you than expected.
A car repair that only costs $300 instead of the $800-$1100 you expected it to cost you.
You S.O. waking you up with coffee for you in hand.
Meeting people you've seen around, and finding out that they're pretty cool.
See old friends and aquaintances, and being greeted warmly by both groups.
Seeing the HTML/PHP page you just wrote displaying correctly the first time.
Seeing a band you've really liked for ages live for the first time.
Finding a $5 bill in the pocket of your jeans when you're broke and hungry.
Finding an extremely cool freeware application.
Discovering how powerful your computer is, even though it's already 3 years (or more) old.
Streetlight Records Employees. They know their music and they seem genuinely nice in stark contrast to other record stores standoff-ish, often clueless staff.
Leopard up anrunning without only minor hiccups.
...And of course, Clan Lord
Cool Software For X
Folder Icon Maker X:
This little piece of software does one thing quickly and easily. It allows you to make cutom icons from two other icons (one small for the foreground and one larger for the background) jut by dragging an icon in the proper bounding box. After that's done the small icon becomes an object that can move, scale and rotate.
It's great for customizing generic folders for applications that came with generic folder icon.
You might think that having a cutom icon for Application folders is like flair: prety but useless (you could just read the text below to figure out what is in the folder, right?). Wrong. When you use a lot of different applications, it helps to have a visual clue that tells you at just a glance without having to stop and take the time to read all you folders to find what you want. Because of the ease of identifying folders it decreases the time you work on navigating the system and anytime you do that your productivity increases and those few seconds saved each time add up to, well a smile in my case. Oh that and I get a purdy system. Because of these things I'm giving F.I.M.X 5 out of 5 Stars.
Apple's Mac Pros
When the G5 Power Macs were anounced, the specs. were completely drool-worthy. The styling is remeniscent of a cheese grater or a HEPA Air filter, but the speed destroys the PCs lead. I ended up Getting the G5 2.3GHz machine a few years ago and now I'm saving up for a MacBook Pro. After that then I get a Mac Pro (preferably 8 core!) Apple just released new 8 core machines (standard) and they have an option of an 8800GT (which is a pretty damn good card!). We're talking WOW at bout 60FPS... in Ironforge.
Opinion
it was recently reported that Apple's market share has increased back up to 4.5%. It'sup 37% over last year. Sales aren't slowing down because of the intel switch coming next year, they're gathering steam. I can imagine in a year, being able to triple boot a PowerMac into OS X, Linux AND Windows XP (or whatever they're labeling it as).
Update: It's at about 6% now...
There's more but I sense people have already nodded off....
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When the G5 Power Macs were anounced, the specs. were completely drool-worthy. The styling is remeniscent of a cheese grater or a HEPA Air filter, but the speed destroys the PCs lead. I ended up Getting the G5 2.3GHz machine a few years ago and now I'm saving up for a MacBook Pro. After that then I get a Mac Pro (preferably 8 core!) Apple just released new 8 core machines (standard) and they have an option of an 8800GT (which is a pretty damn good card!). We're talking WOW at bout 60FPS... in Ironforge.