perldiver

Yesterday, I secure-deleted a bunch of files to free up ~20GB of space on my disk.  First I threw everything in the trash, then I nuked 'em.  As they were deleting, I remember noticing the Yahoo Messenger icon in there; I assumed it was the original installer program and didn't think twice about it.  Today, when I went to fire up Messenger, my machine couldn't find it.

My take-away from this is that, at some point, I accidentally dropped the Yahoo Messenger program in the trash...and it kept working anyway, right up until I actually erased it.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Windows.  I am so glad I switched.

As you all know, Mac OS X v10.4 has just been released.  The codename is "Tiger".  Tiger incorporates 'over 200 new features', some of which are really impressive.

You know the most utterly, staggeringly, mind-blowingly amazing thing about Tiger?  I'll tell you.

The most utterly, staggeringly, mind-blowingly amazing thing about Tiger is that I can order it at 11:40pm EST on a Tuesday and have it in my hot little hands at 4pm EST that Thursday...without paying for fast shipping!  What the heck? The darn thing must have been being shipped to me even as I was taking my credit card out of my wallet to place the order.  What, did Apple outsource their Sales and Shipping department to the Psychic Hotline when I wasn't looking?

I can just see it...somewhere, there is a stereotypical large African-American woman wearing giant loop earrings and swathed in gypsy scarves, staring intently into a crystal ball.  Suddenly, she sits bolt upright and picks up the phone, speaking with a heavy Jamaican accent:

Woman:  Yah, Ohdahs Depahtment?  Da loa done tole me dat Mr. Joseph Smit' of 547 Meadowlahk Lane, Hamden, CT, 06511 will be ohdarin' a unit tomorrow at 6pm.  Best you get dat out da doah now.

Phone:  <low wah-wah noises, like a Peanuts adult talking>

Woman:  Yah, I said Jo-seph Smit'.  Dat's J-O-S-E-P-H S-M-I-T-H mon.  Yah.  547 Meadowlahk Lane in Hamden.

Phone: <wah wah wah>

Woman: Yah, Meadowlahk, like de bird, mon.  Yah.  Ok, you got it?  It go out today, right mon?  Ok, good.  T'anks.  Yah, mon, you have a good day.


Ok, back to work now.