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My friend Stephen Gleasner is leaving Appleton today to race in the Tour Divide - a race from two hundred miles north of the Canadian border down to the Mexican border. You can read more about the event here and you can track his progress here.

After a long break (since December) I sold my first computer in quiet a while. Please check out the store to see what we have. I’m working with some other ex-AABA people, and it looks really good.

Think about your “Data Shadow“…

I’m happy to announce that I’m selling computers and peripherals again - now as an agent of Mac2o. You can get to the store by visiting hs.mac20.com or clicking the Store link in the Nav bar above.

It looks like the Auto-update feature in Quickbooks for Mac OS X is doing something very bad -  erasing all files on your desktop, after warning that your disk does not have enough space.

Shortly after getting the new laptop, which came with 10.4 installed, I did an erase and install of 10.5. Shortly after doing this, I noticed the keyboard started freezing, while the touchpad and button worked just fine. “Oh no”, I thought, this is where I come to regret getting the refurb. But a little digging around found an article at MacFixIt.com. One of the posters suggested the following command:

sudo update_prebinding -force -root /

If you have this issue, copy and paste this into a Terminal window and hit return. Wait for the command to complete (you’ll get a prompt back) and reboot. This fixed the problem for me. I see the same issue is mentioned at AppleInsider but they say that no fix has been found. Perhaps I was lucky.

Well - it had to happen. After more than 5 years, lots of work, several bad drops, broken hinges, and perseverance, my old 800 MHz G4 PowerBook died. For Good. I’ve replaced it with a new Mac Book Pro - and I love it. I got a refurbished model of the 2.4 GHz 15″.   

From the Village Soup:

Award-winning Slim Goodbody Productions announces open auditions for Coastal Star Search. This talent competition for children and adults will be presented Sunday, November 18th, at 2:30 pm in the Camden Opera House at 29 Elm Street. Tickets are available in Camden at HAVII and Owl & Turtle Bookshop; in Rockland at the Grasshopper Shop; in Belfast at Fertile Mind Book Shop; and at the box office the day of the show. Or to reserve tickets in advance, call 975-STAR(7827). Ticket prices are $12 for adults and $8 for children with a maximum price of $35 for a family.

This is a benefit for the Ashwood Waldorf School in Rockport, Maine.

Jon Whipple has a very nice comparison of Pixelmator, Acorn and DrawIt, three new image editing applications for the Mac. Take a look, I think you’ll find it interesting.

Ars Technica has John Siracusa’s review of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It’s amazing thorough and well worth the time it takes to read all 16 pages.