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(Well, I can forget my keys. In the car. At the ice cream shop. With all the family waiting. But that's a different story.)

Okay. The boss said it was cool to order some delicious memory for my computer. I did this.

I've now received the memory, and with a few twists of a screwdriver, it's been installed. Here's the screenshot:

To see how it affects the box, I've started up all my memory hog programs: Firefox, NeoOffice, PandoraBoy, VectorDesigner, and MS Word.

I'm giving all you non-Mac people an opportunity to stop reading now. Don't say I didn't warn you.

(As this is a post about an Apple Mac computer, I feel I must apologize for the slightly superior, somewhat arrogant tone in my writing.)

OS X 10.5.7 came out recently, and I've been very eagerly awaiting it. "'Eagerly?'" you say. "How can you 'eagerly' await an incremental update to an operating system? What could possibly make you wait for something like that?"

Mayday! Mayday!

It's May 1st and I have severe wrist pain generated from too much computer use and, I'm sure, bad posture.

I will be starting to write a novel in the coming weeks, so to prep for the strain on my limbs, I've switched my mouse to the left hand and started wearing a wrist brace.

I'm hoping that this will give my wrist a chance to rest so that I can write like a screaming fool when the time comes. Let's hope it works.

I wrote to Typematrix to see if the 2030 keyboard works with my MacBook Pro, but they have yet to respond. Sad for me.

As a side note, Ronn is moving, so we did not have our call this week. Good for him, bad for me. So sad.

When I worked at The Worst Job I Ever Had, they contributed to a technology purchase in lieu of getting me a laptop bag or Franklin Planner -- a Palm T|X.

I had a Palm III way back when, and then later, a Handspring Visor (which was tres cool!). I loved that Visor.

So when I had the opportunity to upgrade it to a Palm with wifi capability and a color screen that would allow me to watch videos streamed from SD cards, I jumped at the chance. I even purchased a better file manager and the Fitaly keyboard. It was very nice, albeit a bit buggy with the Blazer browser and such. VersaMail worked pretty well, though. I held on to it, using it off and on for a couple of years. Recently, I have been in an "off" section of time, though I have been watching Justice League episodes on it.

This last Sunday was my birthday. My wife snuck out a few days before and bought me a frivolous gift that I mentioned that I wanted (okay, I gushed about it like a little girl). In any case, I was surprised Sunday morning with a bag containing a bright, shiny, new iPod Touch 2.0, 16GB.

I just went to help my wife with SmartFTP, the program I've been lauding for several years. It's free, it works very well, and, well, its free. Heck, even LifeHacker promotes it as a great program.

They have this 72-day rolling upgrade schedule. If your install is over 72 days old, they want you to download the latest one with all the bugfixes. I've used this for many years, and I've updated it many times. Of course, now that I'm on the Mac, I use a different program, but for the PCs, it's been SmartFTP all the way.

So I went to help her with it, and it asked us to install the latest version. Cool. I did it. And then: Bing!

So they've converted to a pay version -- now you have to BUY it or it will STOP WORKING.