I watched The Incredible Hulk at the weekend (the one with Edward Norton).
For some reason I thought that most people believed that the previous film was rubbish and this was much better, even good, but I didn’t think so.
Or maybe I imagined that.
Anyway, how Norton got an Oscar nomination for it is beyond me. Hurt [...]
The other day I was thinking about being a long-time Apple customer and that around the very late 90s, early 00s, when Windows PCs were a bit of a joke, it was very easy to feel superior and evangelise a bit about Macs and OS 9 and generally lord over the great unfortunate.
So a lot [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2008
After the demise of my iBook, we needed a replacement for wireless interwebbing at home.
Lo! a shiny new MacBook has been ordered and shall be delivered in a week or two, but why does ‘3 days’ on Apple’s website always translate to two weeks once they’ve taken your payment?
iBook seems to have relapsed after a spirited recovery.
It was taking a long time to boot, Spotlight felt it was necessary to reindex the drive, then would crash and repeat. After a single-user disk repair session it wouldn’t boot at all, in fact it didn’t seem to be getting power.
Battery and mains adaptor are fine, [...]
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Looks like iBook seems to be recovering after an OS reinstall. After syncing back its personality from .Mac he seems as good as new.
Fingers crossed he stays that way.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
My iBook kernel panicked. And is doing it again on reboot.
For those less enlightened, a kernel panic is akin to the Windows Blue Screen Of Death.
I’ve yet to do any real analysis, but I fear the worst.
Snowy the iBook has been a good and faithful servant since September 8, 2005.
He is my second iBook, the [...]
Saturday, January 12, 2008
I’ve had the iPhone for two months now, time for the hype to die down, and for normal usage patterns to emerge.
During the week, it’s my alarm clock - I put it on silent mode, so calls/texts don’t wake me up, and I disable vibrate.
I carry it to work in my pocket. If I’m [...]
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
It’s been about 10 days now, and am still very happy with the iPhone.
A couple of days ago, I needed to do something with my old Sony Ericsson w850i, and found it almost painful to use. Amazing that 6 months ago, I found the w850i’s display to be large and bright, and the interface fast [...]
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Actually, I’m not that bothered about a lack of Java 6 on the current build of Leopard, but will probably start to lose faith if it’s still not there by Christmas…
Anyway, I’m not going to write loads, suffice it to say that the Apple java-dev mailing list folk suggesting using 0xCAFEBABE in decimal + a [...]
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Turns out the Leopard firewall is off by default.
Even after upgrading from Tiger where I had it switched on, it is now off.
On the face of it, this would seem bad, especially for wifi users who might be exposed to dodgy Windows laptops in the same hotspot. Ironically, a Leopard sporting MacBook is probably safer [...]
