Green & Black

Well, as you can tell I'm up quite late again. I'm busy playing the Fall of Saigon. What do I mean? I should clarify. I'm busy trying to get the data off my secondary hard drive of my G5 because the damn thing has gone belly up again. So, yes, I'm busy transferring files very slowly in firewire target to disk mode. The first signs of something amiss it stopped burning DVD's again. Then it became unstable. Then it just started taking like 15 minutes to boot and 10 to get to the desktop. Applications where beach balling sporadically and then the hard drive started clicking. What does this all mean. I have to take the damn thing back in again. Tell them once again, replace the darn processors like you should have when I took it back in circa September. Blasted 5th Ave. The thing will also prolly need its hard drive replaced, logic board, sata controller, etc, oh yeah and don't forget the casing because the last time it was in they mishandled it and dented and dinged it up. As you can tell not to found of the 5th Ave store. Anyways that's going along slowly the transfers because the G5 is limping along and sometimes having to get restarted and restart transfers over again. It can't transfer anything larger than about 10GB's or so at a time.

So, in the meantime I got productive. I started working on my I.C.M. final project. I started working with parsing the names of the soldiers who have been killed by I.E.D.'s in Iraq thus far. I have a preliminary text only visual of it. NamesGRNBLK The green and black a throw back to the computer commandline. I'm not sure what I think of this, but I almost am interested in just the text itself and the names alone without anything else. We shall see where it goes. Now I sleep.