Progress Update X, or How I Seem to Fail at Crossing Things Off
Another week, plus a day, and another week of not getting things done. Well, at least from the list. I did get other stuff done.
Here are the items I wanted to get done last week, and how I fared:
Finish archiving files and move the old computer off my desk. I did finish archiving the files, but have not yet moved the computer. But, halfway done!
Take product photo for my eCommerce site and put it on the site. Took the photo but didn’t get it on the site yet.
Setup printer/scanner. Since that required removal of the computer, that didn’t get done.
Do some work on the redesign for my flagship website. Nope.
Order a new hard drive for my server. Nope. Did some archiving, and that seems to have made it better. Still should probably order a new drive to have on hand, just in case…
What did I accomplish?
I did manage to keep putting up new sections of Practical Points in Nursing. I’ve not done so in the past couple days, because I reached a page where I need to scan something…
I also managed to put together this little gem: “50 of the World’s Greatest Blogging Links.”
I also did some general cleaning at home and the office.
I also started monetizing another blog, though I should probably update it!
I also did my first article on Associated Content: “Money Doesn’t Always Follow Your Passion,” which has finally gotten some readers!
So, despite not crossing much off my list, all-in-all not such a bad week for getting things done.
I have a similar computer story. Since I’m the most computer-savvy in the family (extended family included), that makes me the support department by default. After purchasing and setting up a new computer for my brother-in-law, he bestowed upon me the old one, burnt motherboard and all. I removed the hard drive (a whopper, weighing it at 40GB!) and put the box on the floor, where it immediately became a table.
After a few weeks (months) of this, it was time to take care of business and send the box to the graveyard. But first, it has to make a stop in the staging area for computers on their way to the graveyard. It now resides outside my glass doors, weathering the elements and waiting for its next move, which will probably be about ten feet from its current location.
If you had one of those all-in-one computers, you could make it into an aquarium.
And, why are you mocking a 40GB hard drive? My primary computer at home has two 1.2 GB drives.
There’s a third drive that I think might be 80GB, but the 1.2 GB drive is the boot drive! The 80GB is just used for backup and storage.
No way. 1.2GB? Wow. Dual 1.2s at that.
I guess I can’t really mock too much - I purchased another memory stick for my G4 Powermac yesterday to max out the RAM. Get this - there’s 4 slots on the motherboard allowing for a total of 1.5GB RAM.
After some research, I also discovered that this G4 retailed at $3000 when it was new (way back in 2001). It’s hard to believe how fast technology ages. I can get the same machine on eBay for under $300.
Actually, I think the internal is a 1.0GB. I had an external 1.2GB until it burned up. I kid you not. Good thing I was there when it happened, else who knows whether it could have started an actual fire. Anyway, the innards of the external enclosure literally burned and melted, which was very disappointing considering most of the stuff wasn’t backup. But, I opened up the enclosure, discovered the 1.2GB drive itself seemed okay. So, I removed the internal CD drive that didn’t work anymore anyway, and made the external an internal drive. At some point, I added the larger 80GB(?) drive, that was on a Sonnet hard card from another computer.
I really ought to add some more RAM to the thing while RAM for it is still cheap, and available!
G4, you say? The computer of which I speak is a PowerPC 604. I tried a G3 upgrade, but that turned it into a Macincrash, or Crashintosh, so out it went!
Dual OS’s too. Mac OS 8.1 and Mac OS 9.1.
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