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My Powerbook is back! My glorious, glorious Powerbook. I missed you so much!

They did replace the logic board. Tested it all day today and the display problem never came back. Hooray! No more electric fan pointing at the back of the machine all the time!

While at the Apple store I bought car power adapters for the iPod and for the computer. One of the guys there helped me pick out an adapter for the computer that could be used at the same time as a DC inverter. Which I need for the bubble machine. He made some comment about how my car was going to be all wired up so I told him about the parade. He was suitably impressed!

Spent most of the day running around to various appointments. Which was boring so I won't go into it any further. What little time I was home, I spent trying to get mt-moblog working. It's supposed to do exactly what I want: receive an email message that contains a photo, creat a thumbnail of the photo, then create a Movable Type entry with the subject of the email as the title, the body of the email as the text, then the thumbnail which links to the full sized photo. That is exactly what I want.

Unfortunately it's a Perl script. And since I know absolutely nothing about Perl, when it didn't work I was completely at a loss. Luckily Lisa and Jason came to my rescue. Jason fixed all the problems (and diplomatically avoided telling me that they were all my fault, but I think that's how it was) except that the script can't get into my designated email account.

I'm sure that the email address and password are correct. The only thing I'm not sure of is the script asked for my "localhost." I didn't know what that meant so I wrote down the POP server. What else could it be? Well, maybe something else, because it ain't working like this.

Pair.com has a function to save email to a folder. Might be that I could get around this POP problem by moving the email messages and then having the script just read the files. Except, I still don't know anything about Perl.