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Trying NetNewsWire for the first time. Not sold, very definitely not sold. Glad that I was able to export/import the blogroll from blogrolling.com. No beef with the app, it’s the way the content is sketchily available. I also miss the site formatting, although I clearly understand the advantages of leaving it out of the feeds.

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Disk Tool reports the internal hardware testing status (“S.M.A.R.T status”: may the marketeer that came up with this abuse of the acronym be long between gigs) of the Powerbook internal HD to be “failing,” which made me realize that although I purchased backup software at Christmas, I have not yet implemented it. Nor have I defragged the drive. Nor have I, in fact, performed any sort of maintenace at all upon the drive.

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My trusty DiskWarrior 3.x CD will not reboot many late-model Macs. An update is available but you must order a new CD from the manufacturer if your disk won’t boot the box. For $12.95, which, well, OK. And expect to wait up to three weeks. Grrr.

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Very little makes me more angry than confronting a pissant electronics repair shopman noting that the television set I have lugged in is beyond the 90-day parts-and-labor warranty. In fact, it makes me so very angry that I did not realize while in the shop that the warranty was out by THREE DAYS on the day we brought it in, and furthermore, that the failure happened within the warranty period, and that we had we contacted the manufacturer at that time.

I haven’t decided if I am going to call them up and yell at them before announcing a William S. Burroughs inspired campaign of shame surveillance or if I’m going to call them up and try to learn more about what sort of shitful souls they possess before announcing my global campaign of utter revilement. It being Easter, perhaps egging would be a fruitful option to consider.