This Week's Special: Get two Mondays for the Price of One

Yep, today is Monday Part 2.

We start with the lack of sleep last night, combined with the knowledge that tonight will also involve very little sleep.

Then we add to it the discovery that the only bug remaining in the OSX EOL installer is actually the result of Safari (and Netscape, but since Netscape isn't shipped as a default browser, it doesn't matter, especially since AOL fired the entire development team last week anyway, basically killing the product for good) not using the standard file://localhost/Volumes path to get to installer, but instead using file://EOL_FALL2003/etc as its path. Grr.

And then, we discover that the OS9 installer has a bug in a client that looks to be purely the result of recompiling with a newer version of VISE. Double-grr, especially since this will require more work, and only five people will be using OS9 (we're dropping support for it after this version, which is why time spent fixing a bug for it is even more of a waste).

On the Windows side, the bugs are all cosmetic. I can deal with that.

I feel very much like Steve on Monster House (huge props to voltbang for getting me addicted to this show) usually feels halfway through each week.

DVD happiness, present and future, and other random linkage

I spent a good portion of the weekend enjoying my Futurama DVD set. I not only watched (and loved) all the episodes, but I also watched each one with the commentary track (by Matt Groening,, David X. Cohen, and a host of others). This DVD is why commentary tracks are worthwhile (and they're much stronger on tv shows than movies, imho, simply from an attention-span pov). From easter-egg revelations to studio memories to nifty technical details, the commentary tracks were all just a blast to listen to.

From gmcaddicted, comes the link to the Gothic Miss Manners Guide to Livejournal

And Firefly fans might want to read taraljc's entry over here, which is the best argument in favor of ordering Showtime that I've ever heard.

Oh, and Firefly is now available for preorder on DVD! As is Buffy Season 5. Yep, I've updated my wishlist.

Interestingly, Fox's Firefly site is still up. Kind of a depressing memorial for the show.

Finally, Slate (which, since it's owned by MSN, couldn't possibly have an ulterior motive for their story, could they?) has an article on the flaws of Google. Conflict of interest aside, there are some valid points there.