Had a long, drooling day at work. Basically working on all the busy work so that I can knock a couple of the long-standing items off my work order list and get on to more interesting projects again. Unfortunately the interesting projects are trying to hunt me down and trap me in meetings about them, so I've been playing project hot potato this week. Boss is leaving for vacation tomorrow, so I have to write up a few pages about everything that has my attention lately and present it to him tomorrow morning so that all the high level stuff is squared away before he leaves.

Got all the toys from Tiger Direct and everything is cool, although Suzy's iBook G4 is deciding to switch randomly back and forth between USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 and I'm not sure how to force it to recognize the new disk drive enclosure as a 2.0 device. Needless to say, the difference between 12 MB/sec and 480 MB/sec when it comes to backups and video is not an insignificant one.

Also got a BAFO BF-7030 USB to IrDA dongle for use with the cell phone. The drivers create a cu and tty device in /dev on both of the laptops, but neither will respond to direct input from either ZTerm or CCLEngine. The Bluetooth cu device works like a charm, and the IrDA connection between my Handspring Visor Deluxe and both the Nokia 6310i and Nokia 6800 gets a net connection just fine, so I'm thinking there's either an issue between the /dev/cu.IrDA device and the USB Bus, or the Infrared simply isn't putting out any signal. I'll be testing it on other machines and profiles in the next few days to try and figure it out.

I broke up the 41,818 messages in my inbox into ten seperate inboxes, sorted by the last digit in the timestamp of when they arrived in the mailbox. That gave me ten boxes with anywhere from 3700 to 4300 messages in them, and makes using Thunderbird tolerable again. If I can keep my energy level up and my carpal tunnel irritation at bay, I could be caught up on the last few months of e-mail by the end of the week.

Cross your fingers and watch your inboxes.

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