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We got a DVD player on Friday. I was actually just looking at them trying to find one that played DVDs, audio CDs and MP3 CDs. It seems like most of them do. Anyway, the female says Do you want that to be your Christmas present? so I say Sure and toss it in the cart. It’s a Phillips, and I don’t know if it’s a good model or not, but it seems to work well so far, and it was fairly cheap. We watched a borrowed copy of Pearl Harbor (which we both liked) and I was amazed at how good the picture was. I didn’t know our TV could look so good…

Supposedly it’ll also play Picture CDs, which it describes as a CD with JPEG images on it. I’ll have to try that.

At work the mail server is down. I suppose I can still do some sort of work. I mean, a mail server is a critical piece of the puzzle here, and it sure ain’t easy getting things done. I guess I could use the telephone, and since I can still access our LDAP server, I just might have to. Dear Server Admin, please fix mail server soon. Please.

We’re working on making more of this site XHTML/CSS compliant, which seems like a never-ending task. I’m sure it only seems that way though. We’re also working on making things look similar between browsers and platforms, and walking the line between full compliance to the standards, and what we like to call living in the real world. Interesting times indeed…

From Daring Fireball, That Finder Thing:

In the OS X Finder, double-clicking on a folder produces completely different results depending on the visibility state of the current window’s toolbar. This is madness.

I miss the old Finder. As is the Mac-way, under pre-Mac OS X, the Finder just worked! And it worked fast, and it worked as you would expect it to work. And you could use labels, and… That’s probably one reason I spend so much time in the terminal, because the Mac OS X Finder is problematic. It’s gotten better, but I was hoping Jaguar would see massive Finder improvements instead of minor ones… I did use NeXTSTEP a bit, and I’ve got nothing against it, but right now I’m using Mac OS X, and I want to be using Mac OS X, not NeXTSTEP. Apple, fix it dammit!

Oh no! Used Mac parts reseller Shreve Systems closes. I always looked forward to seeing their poorly designed bargain basement ads in the Mac magazines… I mean, who knows when you might need to replace the power supply in your original Apple ][+ or get a logic board for a Mac Classic?