October 29th, 2002 §
Airport job insecurity: When feds take over, many Filipino screeners will be unemployed.
I find the focus of this article kinda funny. It’s true, pretty much all the security screeners at SFO are Filipino… my family has made many the off-color cracks like “nosy pilipinos, always in your business”. I know, but hey, it’s our own kind, we’re allowed, right? 
But seriously, folks, I find it a little scary that there were over one thousand NON-CITIZEN security screeners working at airports around the bay area. I had no idea… that’s a LOT. I think that this is a job more suited for trained citizens that can communicate well with the people they deal with every day.
(via MeFi)
October 29th, 2002 §
No, I didn’t get the dreaded Sad Mac icon, but I do have a sad mac today. My Titanium PowerBook G4/400, to be exact.
Read some of the grisly details (and some relevant discussion) on this thread on the MacNN Forums from a little while back. Here’s the screenshot of what the Ti eventually regresses into… it is only now a mere few minutes before this happens these days. Is it possible that trying to install Jaguar fried my VRAM? Say it isn’t so! 
Anyone out there have any idea what could be going on? This is messed up, man.
Well, I don’t have that AppleCare for nuthin’… gotta use it now!
But sleep first, would be good.
October 23rd, 2002 §
The power of the Jaguar continues to tempt all geeks.
On the most recent episode of TSS, they featured a House Call at Wil’s home in SoCal. The spot was silly, but it was the phone interview that made me grin.
He recently got an iBook running Jaguar, and is loving it. Do I smell a switch commercial in the works?
Go Team!
October 21st, 2002 §
In relation to my post the other day about consumerism, I just found a pretty cool online documentary called No Logo (based on a book of the same name) discussing name branding. Good stuff.
I guess it’s time for me to pick up this book… funny that Amazon is offering it with a copy of Culture Jam (which I already own). Excellent observations on our culture and consumerism.
October 14th, 2002 Comments Off
I gave in.
I upgraded my now-defunct iTools account to a .Mac account. And yes, I did wait until the last minute of the last day for an upgrade.
Funny that the half-off offer ends today, a federal holiday. Federal holiday means banks are closed. Closed banks mean that the deposit I made on Saturday has not gone through. Deposit that hasn’t gone through means not enough moolah on the check card to upgrade.
I had to do it the old fashioned way. I called the 800 number, and was able to do a electronic check. Score!
Watch me pull the same crap next year, when I shall debate whether to pay $99 a year instead… oy.