The video card in my Dual G5 Power Mac, my main development machine, just died. It just draws green vertical stripes all over the place, doing its artistic impression of astro-turf.

It was an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, with 128 MB, and had so much to live for, namely rendering C++/Objective-C code in Xcode (at least that’s what I tell my clients). It will be missed.

Unfortunately, that is the machine with my iTunes collection and RSS subscriptions, my two main forms of distractions. So until it is replaced, I will be forced to work.

..although I suppose I could turn on Voice Over and see how accessible all the different apps are…

No, no, work is what I’ll be doing. Definitely. Especially if you’re the one looking at my timecards. Please pay promptly.