Time was when my girl would email me from work each day. Not excessive amounts of email, mind you, but a quick hello, sometimes a question or concern, sometimes a funny story she was passing along. Nothing the ordinary modern-day employee doesn’t do each day while at work. Apparently there is some sort of ban on any kind of email at her job, where some dude is sitting in an office reading other folks’ email all day, ready to narc them out for talking about what to eat for dinner or who’s coming over next weekend. Don’t companies realize this makes their employees feel mistrusted and paranoid? Sounds like a fine way to improve productivity to me.

Small Dog Electronics has 15″ iMacs for $999 with a combo drive. Must….resist….. They also have refurbished 30GB ’03 iPods for $379. Resolve….growing…weaker…

Progress… So last night I took about 20 minutes during a period of insomnia to try to enable WebDAV services on the iMac (and let me just tell you how nice it is to have a development box to play with, as opposed to breaking the Powerbook here); this involved setting up a root acount, logging in through ssh, farting around in httpd.conf (ahh, I remember the days on MKLinux…) to enable the services and set up the passwords. Restarting Apache this morning was unsuccessful though; somewhere the password functions I wrote were wonky. More research to come on this front.

Do Not Call. This morning I got a call from somebody at “Atlantic Home Security” who wanted to try to sell me something. As soon as I mentioned the Do Not Call list, she hung up. Dammit. I wanted to get their information and have them fined.