Never mind the fact that after mine was done recently, I had to re-authenticate iTunes, re-enter registration codes on some applications, and start over on my Time Machine backups, all because everything thought it was a new computer.

No, what I’m talking about are the things that aren’t supposed to be part of the replacement. On my MacBook Pro, there’s now a faint hum I can hear when I attach external speakers. Volume settings are all still the same, but that hum was not there before my original logic board failed.

Meanwhile, @rickmacmerc has also been experiencing issues after a recent replacement—more serious than just my little audio hum.

Further case in point, a good many years ago, the ethernet failed on a G3 tower at work. Since the ethernet was on the logic board and not a separate card, the whole board had to be replaced. When it came back, it would appear to boot properly, but start suffering random freezes after several minutes.

Is this a common story? Has it happened to you?

Good job with DL2. Two comments:

1. *Please* consider putting the information pane back on the right side, or give the option to do so.
2. HTML export needs to ignore articles (A, An, The) and such when sorting.

Today, they replied, not that I really expected a reply:

Hi Lee,

1. We are. =)
2. You’re definitely right on this one. 

Thanks!

I guess this means Delicious Library 2 is soon to be far more useful for me. The info pane at the bottom always seemed unwieldy, and I hate having to go to the letter T in sorting to look for movies like The Incredibles, The Princess Bride, and The Red Violin.

So now, I’m trying to make up my mind whether to go for a big list of singles on the iTunes Music Store, or just go nuts and buy several full albums.

Here’s my list of tracks I definitely want. I’d welcome anyone’s input on others that were popular that I should check out.

1. Baby, What a Big Surprise
2. Colour My World
3. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
4. Feelin’ Stronger Every Day
5. Hard Habit to Break
6. Hard To Say I’m Sorry
7. I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love
8. If You Leave Me Now
9. Just You ‘n Me (I’m on the fence about this one)
10. Look Away
11. Love Me Tomorrow
12. Old Days (I’m on the fence about this one)
13. Saturday In the Park
14. Stay the Night
15. Stone of Sisyphus (Maybe not as popular as past tracks, but it was recently released and I liked it, so I’m buying this one.)
16. What Kind of Man Would I Be?
17. Will You Still Love Me
18. You’re the Inspiration

While I’m at it, what’s the best Peter Cetera stuff? I already have The Next Time I Fall and After All. I want Glory of Love, but it doesn’t seem to be in the iTunes database. :-(

Update 1: Michael Tsai informs me that Chicago 17 is “solid,” and that if I don’t buy the entire album, at least get Only You and Remember the Feeling.

Update 2: Turns out that The Very Best of Chicago - Only the Beginning is $11.99 and the individual tracks listed above would cost more, and they’re all in the Best of album—except for the two Michael suggested. Maybe those two were hits as well, but I never really knew them growing up, so I’ll stick to just the compilation album—and a single of Stone of Sisyphus just because I really like its sound.

Here’s the addition I found for .htaccess:

<Files xmlrpc.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

Just fill in a comment with your name (or an alias I’d recognize) and say either whatever you want, or just “I’m here.”

Let me also take this opportunity to let you know that if you have any thought that you might periodically post comments in the future, feel free to sign up a user account on this site. That way, it’ll remember your information for future comments. Just use the Log In button in the left column, then use the Register link.

UPDATE: It was brought to my attention that I should’ve offered a link to Twitpress for those who wanted to check it out.

But here’s the scoop. Second Initial was created with the primary purpose of being a blog. At that time, blogging was an exciting new thing (well, new to me) that I really wanted to do. I had already begun posting entries in a more limited fashion at D.T.P. by Lee, but I wanted to set up a new page that was better managed. I also wanted to to get away from @dtpbylee.com as an e-mail domain. You can’t imagine how difficult it is to try to convey, “dee tee pee by lee dot com” over the phone! “What did you say? gee vee cee?”

So, here I am again making another break. Not that “secondinitial.com” was terribly hard to say, but that domain represented my intent to be a full-bore blogger. Yeah, full-bore, as in full-boring. I’m pretty sure no more than just a dozen or two people read my entires with any regularity.

Therefore, this time, I’m getting back to basics. I decided I wanted a site that catered more to my own needs than one that tried to be something that other people wanted. This new site is more like an online calling card. You’ll note right away that the front page doesn’t even have the index of my blog entries. Instead, it’s an online version of a college dorm room white board with pointers to the online venues I use more regularly.

Sure, I’ll keep posting occasional blog entries, but they certainly won’t come with anywhere near the frequency I tried to maintain on the older blogs. In fact, the motivation behind nearly all the entries will be that I can’t (or don’t want to) boil down what I want to say in a 140-character tweet.

So there you have it. If you’re into RSS subscriptions and want to keep up with me, you’ll certain want to pick up all the feed links on this site’s sidebar—especially the one for Twitter. If you’re on Facebook, give me a ping there, but note that I tend to only follow back people with whom I have some sort of vague acquaintance. Ditto with Twitter.

I’m glad you’re here. If you have any advice for adjustments I should make to this new endeavor, I welcome your feedback.