Last night I got my AirPort Express working with my Linksys WRT54G as a streaming client for AirTunes. What does that mean. From my WiFi link i can stream my mp3s into my stereo in the living room - without wires. This is Unbelievably Cool (tm). As my sister said today when I spoke with her “…[you] have a lot of toys.” Amen. King Cocadom is continuing and progressing nicely. I am still trying to figure out why I am getting this stupid warning: ‘CLASS’, may not respond to SELECTOR My sense of design aesthetics won’t let me simply ignore this irritating warning - I mean the thing compiles fine, but still I get this warning.

It’s going to be a busy couple of weeks leading up to the big move. This week was the only day I’m going to go to work as I will be spending the rest of the week in INTRO training. INTRO is a class that teaches the basics of networking. It’s a bit funny that I work for a major provider of networking gear, yet I don’t really know much about networking theory. I took a class on it in college, but that knowledge has not persisted. I’m going to try to learn a lot and take the exam associated with the content this month before I leave.

I know a bit more about internetworking than I did a day ago. I’m pretty tired, I couldn’t sleep very well last night. I decided to re-christen the Flash Card application “Memory Bank” and I got a cool icon for it done like HAL’s Eye from 2001. I got the idea because the instructor was talking about pluggable modules for large-scale network switches. These are essentially memory or task plug ins. This got me thinking about that scene where Bowman goes into HAL’s brain room and starts unplugging his memory banks. They were holographic cubes that looked like three-dimensional note-cards.

Today I finished my training class in INTRO. I really learned a lot ( by the fourth day your brain is mushy goo running out your ears ) and am very pleased now with my ability to do funny tricks with binary numbers to understand networks and their configuration.

I think the balance has shifted again, I think I’m going back to Firefox as my default browser. The add-ons are amazing. Mozilla as a platform for new ideas simply rules ( from a user perspective ) I always liked type-ahead find, an emacs thing that I think should be everywhere The render time isn’t notably better on Safari anymore Safari keeps barfing on the JavaScript on my netflix queue. I visit that thing often enough that barfing on the site and taking out my browser state is a major problem. The issue that ruins my Firefox experience when i’m forced to use a PC experience, memory leaks, doesn’t seem to be a problem on OSX.