Spike lives!

And so does Willow!

No, not the “Buffy” characters... the hard drives. Willow, my iBook’s hard drive, died a few weeks back, and then Spike, my 80 GB LaCie hard drive, died a few days later. It was some bad times for awhile. Fortunately, I didn’t lose any data, so it wasn’t so bad. Plus Pooz and Geoff came through with some spare drives, so I’m back up and running.

So, on that topic, I think it’s finally time to share the naming schemes of my devices. Back when I had PCs, I never changed the name of the hard drive, because, well, Windows doesn’t really like you doing that. When I got my first Mac though, I had to call it something more than just “Macintosh HD”. At the time, I was working for The Towerlight, and all our Macs there were named after Shakespearian characters (and our server was Shakespeare). My work computer was Lear (as in “King Lear”) so I named my TiBook “Cordelia” (how prophetic that would be), Lear’s only trustworthy daughter. That was in June of 2001. In January of ’02, I got my first iPod (the original 5 GB with the moving scroll wheel) and named it “Regan” (one of Lear’s other daughters). Then, that March, I got my Power Mac G4 and named it “Goneril”, the third daughter.

OK, see, then I graduated, so I moved on from Lear, and dropped that naming scheme. In fact, I changed it to “Charmed” with my TiBook becoming “Piper” my iPod becoming “Phoebe” and my tower becoming “Prue”. When I added an extra internal hard drive to my tower, it was “Paige”. Then I got more computers, and more iPods and more hard drives, and they got names like “Cole” “Darryl Morris” “Leo” “Patty” and so on. I actually almost didn’t sell my TiBook, just because ti was “Piper” who was my favorite character on the show.

Then, when I got into “Buffy”, I decided to change the naming scheme again, in part because I liked “Buffy” more than “Charmed” and because the main cast of characters is bigger, giving me more to draw on. So here’s the lineup as it stands right now:

Power Mac G5 - Buffy Summers

iBook G4 - Willow Rosenberg

Power Mac G4 - Xander Harris

Power Mac G4 Cube - Rupert Giles

400 GB LaCie FW HD - Angel

80 GB LaCie FW HD - Spike

250 GB FW HD - Dawn Summers

120 GB ATA HD - Tara McClay

30 GB ATA HD - Anya Jenkins

80 GB FW HD - Riley Finn

60 GB iPod 5G - Faith Lehane

4 GB iPod nano - Darla

40 GB iPod 4G - Drusilla

20 GB iPod 4G w/ color- Wesley Wyndham-Pryce

10 GB iPod 3G - Cordelia Chase

4 GB iPod mini - Daniel “Oz” Osbourne

AirPort Network - Sunnydale

AirTunes - The Bronze

Cordelia Chase had been my iMac G3, but I sold it (I had no need for 5 computers). I managed to pick up an old 3G iPod though, so she’s back in the lineup.

Well, that’s it for now (if you’ve read this far, I’m impressed). I might have more later.

Fixed!

OK, short update here... I’ll try to have more tomorrow...

For now, I just wanted to let everyone know that my iWeb site seems to be working again. The photo gallery is gone for now, but the jersey collection is already back up.

Also, I finally saw my family again today. Sadly, it’d been a few weeks since I saw them. Eli is getting pretty big. I’ll try to post some pictures of him soon.

Also, it looks like my plans are getting more firm for Chicago, and I may join Pooz and Geoff for a day trip to Philadelphia if my schedule works out.

That’s it for now...

Falling behind...

OK, I know I’m falling behind on updating my blog, and my website in general, but I have a good reason. Well, a few actually. First off, I’ve been working about 60 hours a week, between my two jobs, so generally, when I’m not working, I’m sleeping.

On a more technical level, my iWeb Domain file became corrupted, so I had to rebuild much of my web site. The corruption actually stemmed from some bad files in my iPhoto library, which is why the photo gallery had to be completely rebuilt, and the jerseys section is still sparse (I’ll fix that over the next few days, I promise).

I did get both my Slayer’s Scythe and my Vampire Spike Bust this week, and pictures of them have been added to the Buffy Collection section. I hope to get the Becoming Buffy bust soon, to add to that. Also, sometime in the next couple weeks, I hope to update both my condo photo gallery and my Displaying My Buffy Collection page.

Other updates coming soon: My thoughts on the TV appearances of former “Buffy” and “Angel” stars this season, and my official NCAA Tournament picks for 2006 (last year I picked UNC to win, as Marco’s $1 can attest to, so go me!).

One last note before I attempt to hit publish in iWeb and hope for the best: I am planning to go to Chicago this summer for both Slay-a-Thon and Wizard World Chicago. However, there are six days between the events. Any suggestions as to what to do in Chicago (besides baseball games, I know that already) would be appreciated.