Yeah, it's a piece of shit...I have regular backups once a week. Back up My Documents, email etc. The error that i mentioned on my big drive in that last entry? Yeah, just 'happened' to be right square in the middle of My Documents, took out my iTUnes Library. No music gone, just the damned XML file that tells iTunes all taht juicy information that make it and iPods so slick. *thought* i had lost all my playlists, play counts, ratings, etc. Well from my weekly backups i recovered my rating

Well i became fed up with Windows XP increasingly over the past few months, ever since SP2 came out and seriously fucked up my comfortable little world. Everything, and i mean EVERYTHING was running like a top. I could play HALO whenever i wanted, i had bookoos of MP3s to listen to, i had over 420GB of storage to fill up. Then SP2. No more HALO, even after the hotfix was released. Programs ran on a sketchy basis, sometimes they would, mostly they didn't. So i decided something musta gotten

The little logitech laptop mouse i usually keep teathered to my laptop, with it's cord that wraps around teh body and USB plug that snaps in place over top of the optical sensor. Really nice deal from newegg for the 14 bucks i gave for it. Anyway, I took it to campus today as an experiment. Here at Purdue there are several labs containing macs, all of them using the standard mac keyboard/mice that are really starting to show their age. some of those keyboards are getting downright disgusting

Does anybody know of any nicer-than-most places to get used apples from? I'd like to have a G4 iMac just as a toy more than anything, to broaden my horizons, get a more intimate feel for OSX, and add a mac to my ever growing stable. My next laptop purchase will be a powerbook, i have made that decision already, but that is also a long ways away before i will be able to drop that amount of money down the proverbial well. Is there a decent way to get started now on a shoestring budget? I.e. sc