San Diego Fires

Sunday afternoon while my wife and I were running errands, we noticed smoke to the north and my wife found out there was a fire. Later that evening, I walked into the garage and smelled the fires; that's when I knew things weren't good. We were glued to the TV watching what was happening. Monday morning, I decided it was a wise idea for us to goto my parents' place on the coast, so we packed up and left.

It's now Tuesday morning and we just got back from picking up more stuff from our house. While the air was a bit clearer at our house (the winds are pushing the ash and smoke west), for the time being, we're going to stay put in La Jolla as it is farther away from the fires. We're all safe and sound, but I'm a little on edge as everyone can imagine.

I've been following KBPS's Twitter feed as well as the Google map showing everything.

The GSM buzz isn't all that bad, now

I previously wrote about the GSM buzz on my speakers and decided today that maybe my 10 year old Apple Design Speakers might be part of the problem; a lot has changed since I got those speakers. I picked up a pair of Altec Lansing VS2320 speakers. I plugged them in and haven't heard a buzz! I'll see how things go, but knock on wood that the buzz is gone. Wow, what a difference a decade makes in electronics.

Burglars got what they deserved

About 2 weeks ago, my dad brought his iMac G4 (the goose neck one) over for me to look at as it kept kernel panicking. After examining it, I pretty much determined that it was toast and time for a new one. My father saw this coming and actually wanted to replace it with an Intel based machine so he could run Windows stuff, if needed. I yanked the hard drive from the iMac and set my parents up with a Mac mini until they could order their new one (I wanted them to vote until Leopard's release was imminent so that they could get it for $10). My parents received their new machine on Friday and my dad had placed the iMac in his car (sans hard drive and barely put back together, but definitely not working). My mom called me today to tell me that burglars broke into my dad's car and stole the iMac. That's all that took; unfortunately they broke 2 of the windows. The burglars will sure get a surprise when they try to use the computer! Stupid burglars.

Not very helpful dialog

I currently sync my Mac with Google calendar using Spanning Sync and sync my iPhone. Occasionally I get sync conflicts that I have to resolve, but today, I got a dialog that was completely unnecessary.

The conflict resolver is a background app; so it simply didn't have to do anything and not bother me. Oh well, at least it wasn't bad, just not useful.