Archive for February, 2006
Karmic reality
If I was any other type of person I would probably have taken today as karmic revenge. I found out my new powerbook replacement is being shipped 27th feb, not what I would call priority one treatment considering this is the same time it took originally – although the last one obviously didn’t get any quality control. I consider this ironic as one of the (now many) arguments against my purchase of the macbook pro was the long shipping time. Looks like people will get theirs before me. I do however, stand by my decision for several reasons including the non commitment of adobe on univesal binaries and my not overly great luck that has already been proven with this powerbook saga… just imagine what a rev A machine would end up with my luck. So, all I can do is wait and then the fun game of compensation begins… oh what joy (never done compensation before so bit of new experience for me, so far along lines of bashing head against wall).
Going back to basics
I am currently working on a new design for logicalbinary (my portfolio) as part of css reboot. I have had various ideas that all built up from the mood switcher and format that it currently is in. However, soon into the design I was really not feeling what I was doing and it seemed oh so wrong. I found myself looking through some of my own photography and was drawn back to what got me started studying photography when I was at art school. For a long time, the only photography I took was black and white with sometimes sepia. On the whole though I got into art college doing black and white photography and my love of it stuck.
Taking a little time for yourself
Sometimes I really don’t take enough time out for myself. For a long time now I have eiher been working or asleep – that has been about the sum of it. Today, I have taken a bit of time out and although it was only a few hours I feel refreshed. As a result, I am going to do something I never do tonight and plan on an evening away from the computer. Whether the world will end or not as the result of this action remains to be seen…..
MacDud
It arrives, I am excited all day at work with it sitting behind me calling to me to open. Arrive home after driving at a speed of 10 mph so not to damage my precious cargo. Set up, boot up, wow what a great machine. Screen perfect – no lines, all is well. After a few hours of wonderment I then decide to install some software…. erm ok why won’t the cd go in? I think Ok, obviously having a blonde moment lets try again… nope that ain’t going to work. My powerbook is a macdud!
Macvert? Oh really?
Upon finding out I have purchased a powerbook (finally in the UK so just waiting now on it), many people have announced that I am a macvert. However, on this note I would like to just rain on a few parades. The thing is that I have been a linux (unix before that) user probably longer than most people have been fiddling with their apple eyes. Coming from a software engineering background (too long ago that I care to recall now), I was taught infact on a very early SUSE system. Infact, there was a time when the only machines I used were linux. The only reason I began using windows again was work related. I got a job doing support and had to bring my doze knowledge back up as my knowledge was biased to the mac. Due to various finanical and hardware reasons I ended up with a doze laptop and a half breed dual boot doze / mandrake box. In our house there is already a imac g5 so it is hardly a new system to me.
Feel the love
Seems today thers is a whole lot of love going on the web and not just in dodgy chat rooms. Apple gives the possible guniea pigs also known as macbook pro buyers, a free upgrade to a faster processor (yep I am choosing to ignore this is possibly to make up for the delivery being pushed back to 2009). My powerbook has reached Holland is on a merry jaunt across the channel to my side. Also, camino sees it’s first birthday and A list apart show that love and hate are close through their valentines for the web and valentine web massacre. It is all enough to make you have a warm fuzzy feeling really. Time to put on my magic numbers CD and feel the love. Makes a change this love, probably going to result in some karmic web realignment of a surge in spamming and pooheads.
