Starting today, my workload should

Starting today, my workload should be back to normal, and I can start posting again. Things also tend to be pretty dead on a University campus this week, the students only have class today and tomorrow, and the faculty/staff only work until Wednesday. The tape library that I manage ran out of tape this weekend, so the first thing on my agenda is to go and feed the robot this morning. At $100/each, I don't want to load in tapes we don't need, but due to some scheduling changes I've made in the backup system, we've gotten double copies of several servers around campus, and that's eating up tape.

Today is the last day

Today is the last day that I have to work in the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, as my replacement starts Monday. They wound up hiring Mark Dobie, the person who held the job before me, so the transition should be fairly painless. Time to clean the last bits out of my old office, format my PC, and clean out all that crap in my inbox I've been putting off doing, by sending it all to Mark. :)

I don't know who wants

I don't know who wants to buy an iMac with a 20" LCD on it, but I sure don't. Why would you want to spend that much money on a display you can't use with your next computer? I'd much rather spend $1000 on a separate LCD display that I could use long after the computer attached to it is obsolete. The 20" iMac strikes me as a product in search of someone who wants to buy it. Any pro users who really need that much screen real estate would be better served by a PowerMac, and most home users don't want to spend $2200 on a computer (with a one-year warranty, no less).

Wow, this week's episode of

Wow, this week's episode of "Enterprise" was great. It reminded me a lot of the story of H.M., one of the most bizarre stories told to Psychology majors, about a man suffering from anterograde amnesia, or the inability to form new memories. There's a BBC article here.

For those of you wondering,

For those of you wondering, Simon & Garfunkel put on a great show. They even brought out the Everly Brothers halfway through the concert, and they sang 4 songs. I'm glad I spent the money to go see them, it was well worth it. They sounded great, our seats were decent, and they played every Simon & Garfunkel song I know, and wanted to hear. If you can beg, borrow, or steal tickets to their show when it comes to your town, I suggest you do so.