So I've fallen into my old patterns...I'm not posting blogs; I'm not posting links; I'm not running my cron job to update the feeds; I'm a bad person. What can I say? Nothing. I'm lazy, and sometimes I just don't feel like being responsible for things.

I need to change that. I'd started out the year all "GTD! GTD!" and I was going to enhance my digital life and centralize everything and make it all wonderful and shiny and easy to use. Instead, I got bored with that process and moved on to doing other, more fruitful things: watching LOST.

I've kicked around the idea of nabbing an old Xbox, a copy of Splinter Cell and the Action Replay 8mb Memory Card for a while. Is it because I long for the exploits of Sam Fischer? No. Not even a little bit. That game is like dremmeling my own teeth, as far as I'm concerned. No, I want to do that to build an Xbox Media Center (XBMC).

Apparently they're porting it to Mac OS and they've got v0.1 up and available for download:

http://www.9to5mac.com/xbmc-xbox-media-center-mac-apple-macintosh-mini-a...

MacHeist gets a bunch of nice shareware apps and makes them available in an unbelievably low-priced bundle, and makes you solve clues all the way through. Some money goes to charity (you can pick from a list of 10 or so), some goes to the developers...so everyone gets a chance to win, here.

Something weird has been happening with my PowerMac G5, and at first, I wasn't sure what the hell was going on.

Situation 1: I leave the G5 alone and it goes to sleep, hours later I'm roused from sleep (or Sarah is, who THEN rouses *me* from sleep) only to have the Mac completely unresponsive and necessitating a hard shutdown.
Cause: Unknown

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