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[2005-06-22]

Yay for software that forces you to agree to the GPL to install it,
thereby showing a total lack of understanding of what the GPL actually is.


In apparently unrelated news, NeoOffice/J is still crap and still better
than MS Office [for reference, when I was bitching about MS Office on
here a while ago, it was on OSX]


[2005-06-07]

Because everyone's not heard enough of Apple in the last couple days,
how's this for a fucking stellar piece of design:
If you plug in an iPod shuffle to the powerbook, it's too wide, and
covers up the other USB port, and one of either the video, or the
firewire, ports.


[2005-05-31]

Ten-day review of OSX.

Well, shit. There's not much I can really say, I gotta be honest. The
system, as a whole, rocks. I've been compiling a shitlist of features
that I want, or things that I genuinely don't like.

Features that I want are mostly all solved by installing a third party
app. Which is fair, because that same list of features are arguably 3rd
party in most linux distros.

The only two things on my real shitlist are:
1) That brushed metal thing; double clicking the title bar skooshes down;
but I don't know where the title bar is, because the brushed metal is
everywhere, seamlessly. iTunes, I'm looking at you.
2) Does dragging something in an app to the trashcan delete it? Who
knows? XCode sure doesn't. Most apps seem to do the same thing, though.

Basically, consistency. Exactly what Apple is meant to be good at. And
ten days later, I literally have those two [real] complaints, and
that's it. There are other minor gripes, but they're mostly penny-ante
shit that only matters in the context of my previous workflows.


In somewhat related news, only Apple would have the sheer balls to create
a product with no features, and then sell it as if it's a good thing.

I'm talking about the iPod shuffle.

"You can't actually choose what you listen to"
"Once you're listening to something, you can't tell what it is".

These are not stellar pieces of design philosophy when you're working
on an mp3 player. And yet, I love it.

See, having bought a mac, and having discovered that iTunes is really
nice, I ripped all my music. Woo. So now I needed an MP3 player. And
truly wonderful bugger that he is, Greg [aka treke] gave me a shuffle. I
didn't feel too bad, since it was given to him for free and he didn't
like it much. So that was pretty damn nice of him.

Anyways. Turns out that I have a *lot* of jazz. And a *lot* of soundtrack
material that's instrumental, boring, quiet, and long.


In conclusion, I have tasted the Apple Kool-Aid thoroughly, and it tastes
Goooooood. It has pleasing flavor, odor, and looks [even the carton it
comes in looks nice], and is only addictive in a "I choose to be addicted"
kinda way.


[2005-05-26]

I feel absolutely, unequivocally, completely and utterly, validated.

Tonight was the last episode of Lost. While I missed most of the series
due to reasons previously described, the end... Didn't. Big cliffhanger.

What a surprise. No-one found out shit, and everyone will have to wait
until the next series to find out anything. I'll lay down cash that the
same thing happens next time, and you *still* won't know the answers.


[2005-05-22]

I joined the dark side yesterday; I'm now the proud owner of an Apple
Powerbook. Woo.


[2005-05-06]

I remember when I was in 6th form [in the UK, that's two years until
you're eighteen and go to university]. I had a bunch of friends that I
hung out with *all* the time. I've not really kept in contact with them
as much as I should have, mostly because I'm an asshole. I strongly
doubt any of y'all read this, but if you do, hi!


Anyways. My point. Ever since I started using Linux, I've dumped pretty
much everything I had that was windows-related. I literally haven't got
much use for CDs of windows or dos programs, so I gave [or threw] them
all away.


Only one CD ever survived. That CD is Worms United. You remember, that
game from Team17, the one that was the original Worms, with the expansion
pack? Basically, Worms before it suffered the second-system effect and
turned to poo. I always had this dream that I'd play it again.

I played Worms United for HOURS and HOURS in 6th form with that crowd. I
remember wasting more hours doing that than pretty much anything else,
in the whole world. Well, the other day I dug that one CD out again.

Obviously it's not native to linux, but DOS emulation is pretty much a
solved problem as far as I'm concerned, so I'm prepared to choke down
dosbox. And damn, it works WELL.

Well, anyways. That was just a random happy memory that I suspect no-one
but me cares about.

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