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Ah yes, living the decadent life! Right now I am reclining in bed, stuffed with Thai food, editing poetry– scratch that, attempting to edit poetry because I am on my 12″ PowerBook and it can barely load a webpage, let alone maneuver around word processing.  Open Mail.app and the spinning beach-ball of doom appears. This makes me sad; my trusty PowerBook and I have been together for over 5 years.

What I want not to want for Christmas this year is a replacement laptop of a new MacBook, but it is so shiny and lovely and fast. Perhaps I will treat myself with one if I get into grad school. I just submitted another application over the weekend, so here’s hoping.

The heat radiating from this thing is lulling me to sleep. Here I go, where visions of Apples will dance through my head.

I didn’t think this day would ever come.

Thanks to Mark/Space’s Missing Sync, my T-Mobile Sidekick II now syncs with my PowerBook’s iCal and Address Book.

The timing on this is particularly excellent, as I spent an hour organizing my Hipster PDA last night, complete with index cards, colored labels and a pocket Moleskine memo-pockets holder.

I keep glancing over at my Sidekick, as if, now that it is as functional as it was advertised when I bought it, I expect it to explode.

For my fellow compulsive correctors of iTunes info: “This program takes songs that you’ve chosen in your iTunes Library, that have incorrect or missing information for Title, Artist or Album, and then uses the sound of each song to match it with the correct information maintained in the MusicBrainz Database.”

The best part of this program is that it’s called iEatBrainz.

If you are running Panther (OS X 10.3), read and follow these instructions right now. Apple will undoubtedly release an update for this eventually, but you should protect yourself in the interim. This Wired article has more information.

Update! The brand-new Paranoid Android from the wondrous Unsanity is another option. From their website: “Note: Paranoid Android is designed to shield you from a different exploit approach than described in the recent Wired article and other sources (we do not disclose the details of the exploit method publicly, but Apple has been notified of the issue). However, it will aid you with the above mentioned exploit as well.” Let’s hope so!

After several unsuccessful attempts with iChat AV and our iSights, FunkyPlaid and I got a full audio/video chat going. And damn, once we had iChat configured to use the iSight microphones and limited the bandwidth to 500 Kbps, the quality was excellent.

If friendships had credits, ours would have to thank both LiveJournal and Apple.