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Backing up most of my significant files yesterday ended up taking much longer than I had hoped. So I haven’t installed Panther yet, but I should get the opportunity tonight barring too many Halloween related interuptions. I decided to go ahead and buy both Panther related “Take Control pdf-lets”:http://www.tidbits.com/takecontrol/default.html this morning and make sure that I’m properly prepared for the big upgrade. I’m excited to get things rolling, but I made sure to leave my Panther discs at home so that I could actually be productive at work today.

I recently upgraded a couple Windows 2000 machines to XP Pro and discovered that Remote Desktop didn’t work (login attempts always yielded a message about my profile not having permission) even when properly turned on under the Remote tab in System Properties. It turns out that you have to go into to Local Security Settings application and set “/Local Policies/User Rights Assignment/Allow logon through Terminal Services” to the users you want (or simply Administrators if you want to match the XP standard).

Kind of a pain, but I learned about Local Security Settings in the process of solving the problem and that should prove very useful down the road at work.

My copy of Panther (”MacOS X 10.3″:apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/) showed up today a little after lunch. That’s fairly exciting, but now I have to figure out just how I want to go about installing it. Tidbits has a “$5 guide”:http://www.tidbits.com/TakeControl/Panther/Upgrading.html providing in depth coverage of the process, but the pdf has been so popular that they ran into bank problems and had to stop processings order until tomorrow morning. That’s not going to work for me since I want to install tonight.

25 points, 9 assists, 12-20 from the field, and only 2 turnovers. Um, yeah it looks like LeBron James is for real. The really scary thing is that despite the gaudy numbers it looks like his game has plenty of room for growth. He and his young Cleveland teammates just need to learn how to finish a game out.

Yesterday’s high winds (60-70mph) ended up knocking out power to our block for about an hour and a half between until just after 6:30PM or so. It was kind of fun to sit around and view our house by candlelight for a while, but I was pleased to get power back in time for “24″:http://www.fox.com/24/index2.htm

This year’s 24 season looks promising so far, although I’ll admit I’m somewhat dubious about the tech-cred that Jack’s daughter Kim seems to have acquired in the three years since we last saw her. Jack’s partner Chase seems like a pretty cool customer, especially since Jack actually seemed to respect his input at times last night. Of course Chase’s relationship with Kim looks like it’s going make things a bit more complicated.

With Fox delaying so many of their television premiers I almost lost track of the fact that “24″:http://www.fox.com/24/index2.htm opens its season tomorrow night. I’ll definitely be tuning in.

Although, I still haven’t watched the first season, I got hooked on the second season two thirds of the way through and then got caught up on everything thanks to the power of “BitTorrent”:http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/. It’s definitely going be a lot more fun to be on top of things from the beginning this time around.

Well, my copy of “Panther”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/overview/ should be ordered on Monday (work’s paying for it– yay!) so I probably only have a week or so to start getting my PowerBook ready. It looks like there are some pretty significant “issues”:http://macintouch.com/panreader03.html with external Firewire drives under 10.3 though which is disappointing. Hopefully they’ll develop a fix for those problems quickly.

The weather today here in Spokane is looking a lot closer to normal after a few days of unseasonably warm weather. It’s pretty amazing that just a couple days back we had a high in the mid 70’s. It’s almost November for goodness sakes.

Unfortunately today’s abrupt return to temperature normalcy came with a lot of wind overnight and my Monday leaf blowing handiwork has essentially been erased. On the other hand I actually enjoy using my trusty “Weedeater Barracuda”:http://www.weedeater.com/products/blowers/electric/prod_2595.asp quite a bit after twenty odd years of raking. There’s something innately cool about being able herd leaves with the barrel of a roaring 195 mph wind blaster.

Speaking of weather, “rssweather.com”:http://www.rssweather.com/ is a very cool new weather service for RSS newsreader junkies like myself. It’s very easy to set up feeds to monitor multiple cities that you may be interested in.
In my case: “Spokane”:http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?config=&forecast=zandh&place=spokane&state=wa&zipcode=99201&country=us&county=53063&zone=WAZ036&alt=rss20, “Olympia”:http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?config=&forecast=zandh&place=olympia&state=wa&zipcode=98501&country=us&county=53067&zone=WAZ011&alt=rss20, “Tempe”:http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?config=&forecast=zandh&place=tempe&state=az&zipcode=85280&country=us&county=04013&zone=AZZ023&alt=rss20, “Jersey City”:http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?config=&forecast=zandh&place=jersey+city&state=nj&zipcode=07097&country=us&county=34017&zone=NJZ006&alt=rss20, “Seattle”:http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?config=&forecast=zandh&place=seattle&state=wa&zipcode=98101&country=us&county=53033&zone=WAZ007&alt=rss20 and for a little international flavor: “St. Petersburg”:http://www.rssweather.com/rss.php?config=&forecast=zandh&icao=ULLI&alt=rss20.

11 innings of neck and neck baseball “end in a walk off home run”:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2003/baseball/mlb/specials/postseason/2003/10/16/redsox.yankees.game7.ap/index.html. Sooo lame.

Go Marlins.

I’m feeling both tired and sleepy at the moment. I think the long meeting that I had this morning contributed to this state, but I did stay up a little later than usual last night. Not to mention the fact that my morning slumber was interupted around the 5 o’clock hour by an unnecessary request to take the dog out. I got out of bed and started walking down the hall to our back door, expecting Gitte to follow and instead she just moved into my spot on the bed. Doh!

I could really go for a nap right about now.