• Worked on bug#8117: Minicalendar not aligned at startup and got very close to a solution.
• Spent most of the 3 day weekend working on my conversion to a Macintosh that began almost exactly 90 days ago -- mostly rebuilding 3 PCs for use by new owners.
• Tuesday morning my new Macintosh died -- looks like the VRAM failed. Spend most of the remainder of the day trying to get an appointment at an Apple store to get it fixed. After talking to a genius at the Genius Bar, the told me it was dead and I should take it in to the Apple Store in Utah since I planned on leaving for Utah the next day. They also said I should assume that the disk would be erased when it was repaired. Fortunately, I do weekly backups. But in this case I could access the computer's disk as an external firewire drive, so I decided to pick buy another disk and make an exact copy the drive since it would save me time doing a restore.
• That evening Apple called me to say 90 days had passed since I bought the computer and that my complimentary support was up.
• I left for Utah on Wednesday and arrived at noon on Thursday. The first thing I did was stop by the Apple Store. There they told me they couldn't take my computer for repair because all the appointments at the Genius Bar were booked for the day. So instead I called Apple Care -- whose number is amazingly hard to find on the web -- and asked them to send me a box so I could mail it in.
• The genius in Palo Alto said the repair shouldn't take longer than 8-10 days. However, my neighbor recently had his Mac repaired and it took more than a month.
• Fortunately, I had my old Shuttle mostly set up. It was missing one drive that had my home directory and the Linux partition. I set up a new home directory and restored my work environment. So I'm finally able to get some work done, but won't be able to easily test on Mac or Linux until my computer is repaired.

-- JohnAnderson - 23 Feb 2007