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I’ve got two old beige G3 Macs in the home office, which are mainly used by the kids. Since they’re Apple hardware running Mac OS X, they’re pretty solid, even though they’re going on 8 years of use…

So today one of them had some problems starting up. Blank screen. We rebooted a few times, tried to start from a CD, and then tried all those things again. Finally, we switched monitors and determined it was a monitor problem. I can fix Macs, but fixing monitors? I don’t do that.

We though all was lost, but if you’ve ever fixed things, you know the last (or sometimes first) method you can try is the old “hit it” method. I gave the monitor a quick smack on the top, and it came to life. Success! It’ll probably die soon, but for now, it’s working just fine…

I recently walked in to a room of people voicing their complaints about Windows. One person said that their hard drive got wiped, and they lost everything, someone else said their computer ran slow, and I’m not sure, but someone may have even mentioned a virus…

It felt good to say “All of my computers are fine and running quite well!”

Of course, none of my computers run Windows. ;)

(Ok, “technically” my G4 does run Windows via Virtual PC, but it’s pretty simple to trash a disk image and copy a new one into place…)

We took the canoe out to Aztalan State Park for a short trip down the Crawfish River…

It was a great day for it, being about 70 degrees and sunny, in fact we even got a bit sunburned (which was not good.) The river itself was muddy as heck, and you couldn’t see into the water at all. We did manage to see a bunch of turtles, including a huge snapping turtle.

As far as a canoeing river, it was ok, but not great. I prefer a lot more twists and turns and clearer water…

(Oh, this was also the first attempt at strapping the canoe on top of the CR-V and I’m glad to say that worked out fine as well.)

Do you watch or create videoblogs? Help Andreas out with the Great Videoblogger Documentation ’06 survey. If enough people fill it out, it might just mean more cat videos on the internet…

I’ve been working on a site that will use osCommerce, which seems like a nice package, but ugh, the old HTML 4.01 needs to go… Aren’t most of us using XHTML 1.0 by now?

Other than that, I’m getting somewhat used to the way that osCommerce is structured. I’m not saying I like it, but at least I’m getting used to it. (Oh, and the Javascript really needs an overhaul!)