So it didn’t work, and it did, and after 5 minutes or so, it stopped working again!! 😉

Amazon Prime was kindda broken during lunch, I just went there to check the status of my orders and looks like they fixed the problem:

It’s weird, for some reason parts of Amazon’s site thinks I don’t have Amazon Prime…

See, you don’t see the Amazon Prime logo at the first tab… I tried to add something to my cart and complete the checkout process and I was able to get the free 2-day shipping… something’s still messed up though… Everywhere I went it asked me to join Amazon Prime… 😉

Photo_091005_002.jpg

Originally uploaded by andrewyng.

That’s 1TB of storage, it has 4 250GB drives inside, diam! Should be enough for your pr0n data…

How To Deal With Change
This is a really good blog, highly recommend subscribing to this RSS feed…

Fedex delivered my AppleCare Protection Plan (APP) for my PowerBook, I just activated it online. I’m not sure why they actually have to send me a box that contains the number, instead of just giving me the number online, or better yet, ask for my serial number and personal info, and add it to my records when I pay for it. Strange it seems…

This is actually the very first time I bought any kind of extended warranty, I always thought they were waste of money, like those they try to sell to you at Best Buy, and they always made me feel like an idiot for not buying it. Another reason I’ve been buying stuff from Amazon instead. APP is different though, especially for a portable. Sherry bought her dual-USB iBook G3 from eBay and it turned out the it had AppleCare, she had sent it in for repair so many times that it paid for the cost of APP several times. And they even gave her a brand new iBook G4 in the end. Well, she could’ve got one without APP, but she probably wouldn’t have sent it in for the repairs that were not related to the logic board problem.

Katrina’s real name: global warming:
Xeni Jardin:
Snip from Boston Globe story by Ross Gelbspan:

Although Katrina began as a relatively small hurricane that glanced off south Florida, it was supercharged with extraordinary intensity by the relatively blistering sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico. The consequences are as heartbreaking as they are terrifying.

Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.

The reason is simple: To allow the climate to stabilize requires humanity to cut its use of coal and oil by 70 percent. That, of course, threatens the survival of one of the largest commercial enterprises in history.

In 1995, public utility hearings in Minnesota found that the coal industry had paid more than $1 million to four scientists who were public dissenters on global warming. And ExxonMobil has spent more than $13 million since 1998 on an anti-global warming public relations and lobbying campaign. In 2000, big oil and big coal scored their biggest electoral victory yet when President George W. Bush was elected president — and subsequently took suggestions from the industry for his climate and energy policies.

As the pace of climate change accelerates, many researchers fear we have already entered a period of irreversible runaway climate change.

Against this background, the ignorance of the American public about global warming stands out as an indictment of the US media.

Link (thanks, Bruce Sterling)

A related item, from a 2001 National Geographic story:

[T]he North Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico regions can expect increased hurricane activity in the next 10 to 40 years. The number of major hurricanes has more than doubled in the last six years. The increase is part of a long-term climate shift that is likely to persist for several decades (…)

Link (Thanks, Ole Eichhorn)

Found Hot Shots Golf Open Tee for PSP on eBay for $25 with Buy It Now, so now it’s on its way to my hotel room. 🙂 Seems like it’s a fun game…

Tonight I signed a lease for a condo, I brought Sherry and Fee-Fee with me, this place is brand new, I liked it when I first saw it last Saturday, and Sherry loved it too. Moving in on the weekend of 9/17. 🙂

It’s located near Rivermark, a new development in Santa Clara. It’s about 3 miles from Atheros‘ office, I might get a Vespa to drive to work…. I’ve always wanted one… 🙂

I finally joined Amazon Prime, as I would probably be ordering quite a bit of stuff from them with the move and all… 🙂