I’ve been making a bit of an effort in recent entries to start adding a related image to my posts. Obviously my redesign is a way off, but I’ve found that they do serve to brighten the place up a bit. It’s also helping to alleviate some of my ‘colour block’ I spoke of recently.
Windows has a ghastly love for prefixing the word ‘My’ to the names of various folders. It’s a pain to type and it’s unpleasant to read. You can, of course, rename most of these in the usual Windows way. On my systems, ‘My Computer’ quickly becomes ‘Computer’ and ‘My’ is culled from all the other ‘My’ folders too. You can use a tool like Tweak UI to change the location of Pictures and Music.
Just a small post. Anyone who’s keeping track of today’s ongoing terrorist events in London may be interested in watching the following links:
As Colly is all too aware, I am something of a Super Furry Animals nutjob. It’s a love I share with my brother Nathan and my Dad and we make a habit of attending SFA gigs together whenever we can. They’re the first band I ever saw live and they’ve never disappointed me.
As a short follow-up to my obligatory ‘should I get a Mac’ post, here’s an update.
My iBook arrived on Thursday, as predicted. It’s a glorious feat of engineering, I must say. Every part of it says ‘well built’ on it (figuratively, I mean). I love OS X like it were my child (I’m not a parent. If I ever have children I expect to revoke that statement immediately). I love the way I can select the word �figuratively� and look it up in the integrated dictionary to make sure I picked the right word, I love the integrated spell check, I love the Adium instant messenger and I’m very impressed with Safari.
The small problem with buying an Apple portable, is that using it is so much more of a pleasure than using the desktop PC I have. Being a small notebook it is by definition less comfortable to use and a combination of looking down at the desk and using the smaller keyboard too much will ultimately do me an injury.
The more I play with my Mac, the more I like. I vow that I shall write something not about the Mac soon. But for now, read this. It’s stupidly cool. And I’ll try and keep it shorter, too.
This is my promised �not about the Mac� post.
The long awaited first beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 7 has surfaced, and some screenshots with it.