My little 2007 Scion has been really annoying me as of late: its lacklustre handling and high centre-of-gravity finds me wrestling to keep it pointed around high-speed sharp turns and linear in poor weather conditions. For some reason, though, the little car has been inspiring my actions in some of the weirdest of ways.
While my GTD Moleskine grew popular, I spent some time re-thinking my own productivity and organisation just in time for New Year’s. With resolutions being the usual January craze, I’ve got my three resolutions for the year; what are you doing to improve yourself, and how are you going to really accomplish your goals this time?
When Dreamhost crashed miserably in July, I switched to MediaTemple. When MediaTemple’s Grid Server database systems started to exhibit the same spottiness that I had seen with Dreamhost months earlier, I began to have terrible flashbacks. There’s a lesson to be learned in the way both the situations were managed.
A freak accident leaves my beloved 2004 iBook G4 incapacitated with a bad logic board. Since Apple has told me the wait for a new logic board may be up to a month, I’m forced to move to my backup laptop, a Sony VAIO VGN-FS660W. With a fresh Windows XP install and a full day’s worth of hacking, I’ve gotten Windows back to a usable state — and, still, Windows shows its nasty, aesthetic-lacking teeth.
With the PlayStation 3 going for nearly $2,000.00 on eBay, I’m left trying to figure out what kinds of people pay so much for what is little more than a bigger/better/faster PlayStation 2. Putting the insane consumers aside, though, I’ve learned that something in the economics of this Christmas is just a little skewed: the PS3 is not the real star of the season.