Trillian Astra
/I got invited into the Trillian Astra alpha test today, and so far I like the software, though I haven't gotten the new MySpace chat plugin to work. Time to dig for some documentation...
Free upgrade
/While on our trip to Europe, my old Canon PowerShot S230 digital camera suffered an image sensor failure. I'd given it to Holly to use when I got my new Nikon Coolpix 5200 a couple of years ago, which she promptly claimed as her own when the Canon died. When I got back to the States, I found out that the image sensor failure was a "known issue" and that Canon would fix the camera for free, even though it was looong out of warranty. Yesterday, I drove to the Fed Ex depot in Waterloo to pick up the camera ("In-Person Signature Required"), and discovered that Canon upgraded me from my old 3.2 Megapixel camera to a refurbished 5.0 Megapixel SD400. Fortunately, I even had a spare 2GB SD card on hand, so I wasn't even miffed about having my old Compact Flash card now rendered useless...
Relocating
/I'm spending today relocating my cubicle to a cube that I occupied several years ago. On the plus side, I no longer have to share, but sorting through nearly four years of accumulated tech crap is a lot of work.
New commenting authentication
/Ok, so I'm no longer requiring a TypeKey account to comment here, we'll see how this new [[Akismet]] spam filtering does at keeping the spam out. If it gets bad, I'll probably move to an [[OpenID]] system.
Pardon our dust...
/This site is being slowly reassembled on my new hosting provider, but it's going to take some time to get everything reassembled. I need to pick a design theme for this blog, upload all the old HTML files generated by Movable Type, and figure out what I'm going to do with Holly's blog that was here too. The rest of the static files are easy to upload, but I'm very tempted to re-do the whole site... If only I had the time...
