I’ve had a whole mess of problems here lately and I’m sitting here right now really frustrated.  The biggest problem being that for some reason, whether a software update or the beginnings of the dreaded macbook shutdown problem, my Macbook has just started dying.  This usually isn’t the case unless the battery starts getting low.  At about 50 minutes remaining, instead of even getting close to giving me a low battery warning like it has done in the past, it just dies.  No hibernating, sleeping, nothing, just a cold stop.

I’ve lost a bit of data because of this and it’s getting on my nerves.  As long as I watch the battery and don’t let it get below the 1 hour mark, I seem to be just fine.  However, I’d like to know what has made the computer just recently start this.  I guess it’s time to try and maybe reset the PMU and if that doesn’t work, off to the Apple Store and my local Genius Bar.  Yeah (sarcasm).

Other problem that is aggravating me is my upgrade to XCode 2.4.  I was able to use the app just fine for one night, then the computer died because of low battery life, and now I can’t get the app to run at all.  The only thing that I can find that won’t hang the app is using the “About” box, everything else, opening projects, reading text files, just messing with the Preferences, locks it up cold turkey.  I installed this release off of my September Developer DVD, so right now I’m at the library using the campus bandwidth to download the almost 1 gig disk image and see if a reinstall with this one helps.

Last little bit of complaining is totally unrelated to my Mac, but we’ve been without power since about 7pm last night when a storm took out our side of the street (about 7 houses total).  I went to bed early and didn’t get anything accomplished, so I came down to school early this morning to get some work done.  Haven’t heard anything from the power company and no one has showed up as of 10:15 this morning.  I know the people have lives, so I wasn’t really upset when they didn’t show up during the night or anything, but at 10:15 in the morning, the work day has already started a few hours ago.  Only thing I can assume is that there must be other places that lost power that were a larger area than us.  I hope it’s on when I go home today, or I’m never going to get anything accomplished.