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First Night We are spending our first night at the new condo. It was kind of late by the time we got done with dinner, so we decided to stay instead of driving back to Bellevue. We just had the microwave/hood and dishwasher installed. The range was delivered on Monday. We're still waiting on the new fridge. Our first pick turned out to be too wide. We found another model which should be delivered next week. DSL from Verizon is working too, even though they sent me the wrong DSL modem. I should have gotten the wireless one instead of this USB/Ethernet piece of sh*t. The proper one is on its way. Nevertheless, for $29.99 a month, 3MB/768K is really not bad. I really can't complain.

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Erik's Pulse has been published. This pulse was written in the new condo while waiting for Ikea to assemble our new furnitures. I originally though I would have to use a dialup connection, since our DSL won't be installed until the 13th. Luckily I was able to piggyback on a neighbor's wifi. Open wireless networks rule!

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Mac OS x86

So Apple announced Mac OS X for x86…

Hardly a surprise. Apple has been working on x86 support for many years, off and on.

If you're expecting to be running Mac OS X on your next Dell's… Keep on dreaming. I'm pretty sure you'll have to buy an Apple-branded PC in order to be able to run OS X.

What I'm wondering is… Who is going to keep on buying the current PPC-based Macs? Is Jobs really willing to forgo sales in order to insure that developers have plenty of time to convert their applications?

There isn't much information out yet, we should get more details in the next few hours.

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Paint & Carpet I met with our painter/repair guy this morning to finalize everything. He came highly recommended by our home inspector. His bid was right within our budget. His company is going to repaint the condo top to bottom, re-carpet, fix a few minor cosmetic things as well as perform the move-in cleaning. The next step is to pick a carpet style/color. All of it should be done by the end of next week. Furnitures We'll be heading to Ikea over the weekend (tax-free) to buy our new furnitures. So far we've decided on the following: We'll try to have it all delivered and assembled at the end of next week. The Pulse

Erik's Pulse has been published.

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Recall Apple is recalling a bunch of Powerbook/iBook batteries. Vicki just filled out the form for a replacement battery for her Powerbook.

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15K My linkblog has reached a new milestone, 15K worth of links. Undoubtedly, one of, if not, the largest non-community-based linkblog out there. New Digs! It's official. We now own the new condo. The title was transfered/recorded on Monday night around 6pm. Now the fun really begins… packing and moving… The Pulse Erik's Pulse has been published.

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GooglME 0.4.2 I've just released GooglME 0.4.2. This version includes the latest round of fixes for the Sony Ericsson T616. Since I don't have a T616 to test with, it took me a while to figure it all out. In typical Java-fashion, write once, test everywhere. The T616 JVM doesn't seem to like it when you attempt to store data in a separate thread. Moving the data storage calls outside of the thread fixed the problem. To download simply point your phone to:

http://mobile.thauvin.net/j2me/