Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Watching Dallas vs. San Jose, installing software

Check out my Twitter feed for info about my experience with backing up my machine.... short version: backup to USB2 drive failed at about 90% completion after over 10 hours of copying, bought a FireWire 800 drive and finished the backup and verify in 1.5 hours.

I installed Mac OS X this afternoon after finishing the backup, and after a busy day I'm finally installing software. I have installed Xcode/WO, iWork, iLife, and finished all the software updates. Still have to install Office, CS3 and all my other apps, as well as my documents/media.

I'm doing all this while watching the marathon Dallas vs. San Jose game on TSN. It's now intermission between the 3rd and 4th overtime periods. Wow, and I was feeling sorry for myself being on the ice for 4 of Cyan's hockey practices this weekend. Not anymore!

Re: Spam bounces ‘o plenty

Here's a new term I hadn't heard before: "Backscattering". That's what the pros call it when you get mail delivery failure messages as a result of your email address being used in spam's "From:" header...

PC World, May 2, 2008: 100 E-mail Bouncebacks? You've Been Backscattered.

Bastards. Someone remind me, spammers have no human rights protection, yes? They're clearly enemy combatants, just waiting for their own comfy cot at Gitmo.

Spam bounces ‘o plenty

I've got dozens of "Mail delivery failed" messages in my Inbox this morning, looks like a spammer decided to use my email address as the "From:" address. Gee, thanks.