August 23, 2002
It's going to be a busy weekend. First, the Jaguar release party at the Apple store. I wasn't going to go, but when I stopped by the store to pick up an AirPort base station, I decided that it looked cool and fun enough, and besides there'll be free stuff. I'm kinda hoping that Jaguar will be discounted for those of us there, to help alleviate my frustration at being charged full price for what seems to me should be an upgrade price.
And face it. Were I not there, I'd just be at home watching Farscape.
Then I'm scheduled to get cable modem Saturday morning. Woo-hoo! I had really hoped to get DSL instead, but it's not currently available in our area. So cable modem it is. With a new broadband connection, I'm finally motivated to set up a home network. Being the forward-looking guy that I try to be, I decided to go wireless. For those older machines that don't support the wireless connectivity, the new AirPort base station has an ethernet port I can use. I'm not really interested in stringing ethernet cable all over the house, but so be it. Hopefully I can minimize that.
And the recently released Perl Exegesis 5, explaining what'll be happening to regular expressions in Perl 6, will keep me occupied for the rest of the weekend. That is, if I don't dig into the Visual Studio .net materials that a coworker handed me today. Not sure why he did that, really, I think he's trying to convert me.
And I suppose that I should finish stripping wallpaper in the soon-to-be nursery. Sigh.
