I noticed the iPhone commercials end exactly the same way as each Utopia period ends. I think that is interesting.

I’ve become a huge fan of Lost recently. I watched a smattering of seasons 1 and 2 and watched all of season 3. I really caught up on Lost by reading all of the epsiode synopses on Lostpedia.

During season 3 every time I would get angry about how an episode turned out, my boss would always remind me that it is the journey that is the reward.

Like any fan I have my predictions on how the series is going to progress. Since new episodes are a long way off, I am going to record them here.

It has been said there are three seasons left. I feel Locke’s last line at the end of season 3 is very telling, “Jack, you’re not supposed to do this!”. The flash forwards telling of jack’s demise into his own abyss, and his final, “We got to go back!” make it clear to me that season 4 will start on the island just after the phone call. Over the course of the season we will learn how correct Ben was in predicting the death of everyone on the island (Ben is prone to a little hyperbole). How Locke becomes the new leader of the others and how the Dharma Initiative regains control of the island.

Season four will end just where season 3 did. At that Airport, with Kate. But this time Jack will either send himself, or be sent, back to the time just before the phone call was made. Then season five starts with him not making that phone call. We progress through the entire season 5 with events just a little bit different for Jack to become the hero he is destined to become. This time he will be able to save everyone on the island.

This leaves season six. I predict a sort of clean up season explaining how the island works and other details not to crucial to the story.

I do hope Tom is still alive.

This weekend I painted Megan’s room. A few months ago she and her mother picked out officially licensed Tinker Bell colors. It turned out real nice.

Just now, Megan sneezed five time in a row. She proudly proclaimed that it was the most she has ever done. I said we should write it down and Megan agreed with me.

Look to the side bar for an update to emubrk.

I am currently using my Catweasel MK4 in my PowerMac G4 computer. The card is not compatible with the PowerMac G5 computers. The G5 does not provide the 5 volt power and signaling the card requires. It turns out the previous statement isn’t true. There are three types of PowerMac G5s: PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express. I just tested a Catweasel MK4 card in a PowerMac G5 PCI-X machine and the floppy I/O functions worked just fine. I did not test the SIDs or the keyboard/joystick functions.

The Catweasel MK4 is not a PCI Express card. So it work work in late model PowerMac G5s or any Mac Pro.

I’ve been wanting to attach a 5.25 inch floppy drive to my Mac for a very long time. I have many disks that need to be saved. Including some disks people have sent me. I have been using an ISA Catweasel on an old PC I have (a Pentium 90). But now I can finally recycle that monster. Last week I ordered and recieved my brand new Catweasel MK4!

Here is a picture of the card inside the Mac:

Since there is no room in my Mac for a 5.25 inch floppy drive I run the cable thru an unused card slot and have the drive units resting on top of my Mac:

Currently I’ve ported Tim Mann’s cw2dmk software suite to Mac OS X. It required a driver to be written. Since I am still using a PPC Mac, I had to add some endian detection to Tim’s code.

I plan on extending the driver to allow the use of the MK4’s joystick and keyboard/mouse port. And also ad an interface for the SID chips. Maybe I’ll finally understand why the SID is so popular.

The ink on my hands. Take cyan and magenta, sky blue does not make.

Last weekend my brother and his wife went on a trip out-of-town. He asked me if I could watch Sophie while they were gone. Since I have not had much time getting to know my niece I jumped at the chance. My wife was also going out of town that weekend, taking my younger daughter, Megan. My older daughter, Bethany, would be gone most of Saturday at a church event. So it was going to be just me watching my two year old niece. It has been a long time since I’ve watched a child this young all by myself. It turned out to be a lot of fun. Sophie really liked the pets we have here. Three cats and a dog. You can imagine how much the cats liked being hugged by a two year old. But the dog actually enjoyed all the attention. Sometime she hugged a little too hard, but Sophie was very receptive to suggestions to ease up a little. Twenty-four hours later my brother and his wife came to pick up their daughter and the Lindner household became just a bit quieter.

I have two users on my Mac, myself and my wife. One of the things that really bothered me with iPhoto is sharing photos between users. Depending who dumped the camera, that person would get that roll. Some photos are under my user, some photos are under her user.

With every new iPhoto release I would hope Apple would address this issue. Well, it turned out they addressed it a long time ago. iPhoto has the option of sharing your library using Bonjour discovery. I always associated this feature with sharing photo albums between two machines. But with fast user switching, you can have one iPhoto sharing its albums between users.

Just turn on photo share under one user and the other user will see every shared photo. It’s fantastic.