Frances became hurricane #4 earlier today. This one will need some watching over the next few days to see where it decides to go.
The White Screen of Oblivion
With Windows, you have the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). On the Tungsten T3 (and probably other Palm models), you get what I call the White Screen of Oblivion. I’ve also seen it called just the White Screen of Death. That’s when while you’re doing something with your Palm OS PDA, and all of a sudden everything on the screen slowly fades away to a bright white. It invariably ends up with a hard reset of your PDA, although a lucky few survive with a warm reset.
Happened to me this morning when I inadvertently opened a 6 MB DOC file with DocsToGo. Meant to open another one, but my tap went awry. In the middle of opening, everything faded away to a blank white screen. Hitting the reset button brought me to the screen calibration dialog, meaning my T3 had just hard reset itself. My first non self-induced hard reset. And today of all days is when I leave my cradle at home. Just as well I suppose, since home is where my most recent sync is. Good thing I sync regularly and often. I suppose one of these days I ought to get an SD card and BackupBuddy or something.
Bring it on, spamboy
So for the past few days, I’ve been pestered by some annoying spammer who appears to be going through each of my posts and leaving spam comments. Nothing heavy yet, only about 7 or 8 a day. Thanks to MT3’s comment moderation, nobody has to sully their eyeballs with the spam because all I do is just go into the database and dump the comments.
There’s a pre-release of MT Blacklist for MT3 which I’ve been thinking about installing. I just haven’t found time to get to it yet.
In the meantime, I’ll just do the comment filtering manually.
How Canadian are you?
Take the test and see how Canadian you are.
I scored 92, which makes me a
Member of Parliament
Congratulations! You scored 92!
You may very well be one of the Founder’s of Confederation. You’re proud of the True North Strong and Free, you can drink beer with the best of ’em! You follow hockey like a religion and may actually have your name etched on Lord Stanley’s grail. You can tell the difference between a moose and a caribou at 100 metres and if we looked we’d probably find a maple leaf tattooed somewhere on your body.
The questions are pretty easy. If you really are Canadian, you ought to be pretty embarassed if you score less than 90.
They’re gone at last!
It seems every time we have my wife’s family over, it’s like having a tornado blow through the apartment. Her parents come, her brother brings his small village over, they stay for a day or two, run us all over the place and then vanish, leaving a trail of destruction. Her brother’s mother-in-law does the dishes for us though, which is nice.
Proud parents posing with the future physician after yesterday’s White Coat Ceremony.