We went shopping today in town at several of our favorite places. First stop was American Spoon to get a few treats and stuff for the grill. Next was Symon's General Store for Cloudberries!!!.

Cloudberries are Sweden in a jar. They are yummy on ice cream, yummy on breakfast starches …

Yes, it's true. Khazad-dum (Mark IV) is dead. Some sort of hardware failure. I have a suspicion it's motherboard damage, possibly brought on a by an ailing power supply. At least, that's what killed the last one.

The short version of the story is that I found some unrelated trouble …

So, I was a bit surprised at the choice to release a 32-bit iMac to succeed the G5. Most experts seem to be saying this won't matter for most people, but I disagree. The 64-bit capabilities of the G5 are pretty important for editing home or professional video, and that …

Went to see the Bloodrayne movie. If you aren't familiar with Bloodrayne, it is loosely based on a video game about a half-vampire, half-human young woman who sympathizes at most closely with humans. At least, the non-evil ones... My bottom line is that this movie was better than average, at …

So, the young Master comes in to get his breakfast this morning, toting the DVD case for Bambi and says "Hi Daddy. Want get my Bambi on!" ... As far as I know, he's never heard that particular construction of speech and it just sounded too funny coming from a 3 …

Monday we heard back from OnTrack. They say there's nothing more they can do. It's dead, dead. No bits to scrape off. All gone. Apparently it suffered massive head crash and the surface damage was too severe.

However, there are some other prospects for recovering some of the data. For …

So... as of this afternoon both of the wee ones are eating normally and sending things through ok... That's probably enough said, but YAY! Let me just say that again... YAY!

All (remaining) Beavis and Butthead jokes aside, this rather nifty looking device is the perfect gift for any tech wizard with a desk that wishes it were in Hawaii. Admittedly, I think it would be a bit more useful if it were a touch larger and housed a 2.5 …

At least... that is the way it has seemed for the wee lass and her brother. He started on Saturday morning with some symptoms too disgusting to describe in detail, followed quickly by fatigue and a general lack of energy that lasted until late today. Most of the fatigue and …