who's called over a dozen times in the past day, including at around midnight last night, calls again, I asked badger how to say
"This is the wrong number"
No es el numero correcto
"No matter how many times you call, it still won't be the right number"
Usted puede llamar hasta el infierno se congelara, pero ya no estara el numero
The post I wrote about blogging about blogging being the most boring thing ever still hasn't scrolled of the front page as I write this. But, you know, if I can't be boring on this, my most personal and intimate of blogs, then what's the point of having it? If this is for anything, it's a place for me to jot down things that I may want to remember later; it's notes for my future self, not an attempt to reach an audience. I've got other blogs for presenting ideas to the public, such as it is.
It's not like anyone reading this blog expects to be entertained, you know?
The results of my experiment in concentrating on one blog are as follows:
It didn't make a difference. The best predictor of whether I post to any of my blogs is whether I posted anywhere in the past twenty-four hours. If I write a blog post, I'm more likely to write another; it doesn't seem to matter whether the post was to the same blog or not.
So it appears that if I want to keep blogging, the best way is to just keep blogging, to keep the momentum, rather than worrying whether the nonexistant readership of any of the blogs is getting any satisfaction.
badger pointed the above out, but since I'm behind in my Harry Potter, I'm trying to avoid spoilers for now. Once I've caught up, I'll take a look.
I've found a product that works to let me remotely control my Windows desktop from my Mac. It's a professional product, but there's a limited-utility free version that does everything I need; I might buy the pro version anyway, if it's not too expensive, just to encourage them, particularly since it involves using their website to log into the remote software. Basically it's a Java applet that can talk to a remote control server that you install on the host machine; pretty much what PCAnywhere does, but without needing both machines to be running the main software. It seems to have a bit of a problem in Firefox, which can't find the right Java class, but works perfectly in Safari, and that's good enough. Now, to bed.
I've finally found the right settings to let me print from my Mac notebook on my Windows printer, via my wireless network. It was quite a bit trickier than I had initially hoped, requiring installing software on both systems, but at long last it works.
My next interoperabilty project requires accessing some CD-ROM reference software that only works on Windows from the Mac. There seem to be two approaches I could try: running an emulator on the Mac, or running a Window Remote Desktop client on the Mac. I'm leaning towards the latter, since it seems like it ought to be the more robust solution--pretending to be a certain kind of TCP/IP enabled software seems like a simpler task than pretending to be Windows itself, particularly when that would have to include reading a Windows CD-ROM using the Mac CD-ROM drive. Plus the Remote Desktop software is free...
update Crap, you can only do Remote Desktop if you have Windows XP Professional. So much for that idea.