If you haven’t tried out Google Earth yet, you should. It’s free. It’s a program for Windows and Mac that lets you fly around a 3D globe and look at satellite images. It even has 3D terrain, so you can get a cool view of places like the Grand Canyon.

Jeremy up and gave me his old G3 iMac that was sitting around. He said he didn’t want to invest the time to get OS X running on it (since it needed a firmware update). I gladly took it from him and set it up this weekend. It turns out it didn’t need the firmware update after all! It’s a 400MHz G3 and it came with 384MB of RAM and a 10GB hard disk. It came with OS 9.1 on it, so I upgraded it to OS 9.2.2 and installed OS X 10.4. Amazingly, 10.4 works great on it, in lieu of the fact that it’s 6 years old. It’ll be great to have a machine with OS 9 on it for Julie’s older music software. My challenge now is to get my MOTU Fastlane USB MIDI adapter working on it so she can plug it into the piano and write music using the keyboard.

Something that’s annoyed me lately: You check your email and open a message from someone. The message is a memo about something or a laundry list of tasks to complete. Instead of just writing the memo or the list of tasks in the email, the sender insists on putting it inside of a Word document.

Dan was kind enough to point me to del.icio.us. It took me a while to find out that del.icio.us = Delicious! Well, it certainly is quite a tasty site. You can download a small utility for your browser (usually it’s a bookmark) so that when you’re on a page you like, click the bookmark and fill out a small form to add it to your list of delicious links.

Ever since I set up Movable Type on my Fedora Core 4 server, I’ve been having issues with MT not being able to perform basic tasks, like trackback pings, Typekey authentication, Technorati updates, and some plugins that fetch data over HTTP (such as RPC calls and RSS).