"Mac go oops!"

After owning Macs for 2.5 years, I finally got my first ever kernel panic earlier tonight. Wow.

Apparently the removable mass storage driver in IOKit managed to take down the system when I removed my USB stick. (I know this, because the system was nice enough to let me look at the traceback after restarting it. It even resolved all of the symbols!) Since I've done that dozens of times before without incident, and was unable to reproduce it after the restart, I'm guessing that it was some obscure bug.

Not too bad considering that this is across two different major OS releases on two different pieces of hardware. I'm surprised that I didn't find anything like this happening sooner.

Oh well, that sucked. I think I'll go to bed now.

Broadband comes to Antarctica

Seen in Wired Magazine

For related reading, I recommend checking out the website Big Dead Place, a satirical look at life and politics in Antarctica.

That's one HECK of a first date!

The story behind this picture can be found here.

Crossposted to lion_furs.