Tuesday, June 27, 2006

I'm a mac person

Last night I went out and bought me a nice new macbook. It's a tight little 13 inch thing.

I'm so unbelieveably clumsy with it. But its cool. I'll get used to it. I like it so far. I was up real late last night using their video conferencing with Bob. Its pretty cool cuz the macbooks come with a built in camera. Dig it.

In related news I also got a 4gb black nano and a printer. If anyone cares, apple is having a big sale for college students. Check er out!


The downside is that the little thing does run pretty hot. I was reading some article about their thermal grease which didn't make me happy. Oh well. It's not a big deal. Kathy's run's hot too. Anyway, I'll post more later. I wonder if I'll end up getting a mac blog instead of this. That would make the graphics part of my site less of a hassle.

I think one of the things I like the most is that you can get a terminal in OS X. That kinda makes me happy. I can't imagine life without that thing.

Anyway, I'm a mac guy...cuz its fun to not know what the hell is going on.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

More FEMA issues

Wow.

The rundown:
Fema issued debit cards to people who needed help. But there was no policy set in place as to how to distribute them. Some people issued fake addresses and p.o. boxes as damaged property and were offered money no questions asked.

People who were living in Hotels paid for by FEMA were offered temporary housing assistance while staying at the hotel. $200 bottle of champagne from Hooters and $300 worth of "Girls Gone Wild" videos were among items bought with debit cards handed out by FEMA to help hurricane victims, auditors probing $1 billion in potential waste and fraud have found.

Wow. In retrospect it was a bad idea to handle things that way. So its funny.

On the other hand. What would you do if you were assigned the task of handing out cards to the needy and everyone said they were needy? And there were cases where people were dying as a result of no food or water.

Sucks to be in that situation.