One problem I have with OSX: Lack of a UDF format reader. I spend half my time on my Windows machine, and because it has a burner with Roxio’s DirectCD, I burn a lot or stuff onto data CD’s with their software. OS9 has a reader extension, but Roxio hasn’t made one for OSX. Bad move, guys. What’s even worse is the fact that the CD gets swallowed when I insert it and I have to reboot to pull it out. Grrr.

Busy Busy Busy.
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been struggling/migrating from OS9 to OSX in the last few days, and attempting to document the problems/solutions I’ve found so far. As it turns out, I’m on a new project at work and they have given me a new PC to use; it’s a dual 1gHz P3, and it runs Win2000. So I’ve gone from WinNT>Win98>Win2000 in the last year. My head is spinning. I’m also sketching out cityscapes and beginning on some fiction for the backstory of the project.

Meanwhile, we still haven’t been paid.

Here’s a memo to insurance companies and the medical industry: make a simple barcode system for insurance cards. You issue me a card with all my stupid insurance/contact information on a magnetic stripe. I enter your office, and instead of making a copy of it, asking me to fill out the form (15 minutes of my time) and then paying somebody to enter in the information (20 minutes of your time @ $12/hr.), you have a simple stripe scanner which grabs the info off the card in some tab-delimited format which you can import into your data package. How hard is that? And don’t give me static about refusing to provide my Soc number, either. You don’t need that.

Good News Dept.: Dooce is back online. Rock on!