Dear Various Applications,

I'm so glad that there is a new version of you available and so touched that you want me to be part of your latest and greatest incarnation. The problem, you see is that to upgrade you requires me to also upgrade my operating system. Yes, I know Tiger is so 2006, but it works for me. I'm sure Snow Leopard is shiny, but ( Read more... )

As many probably noticed when I was writing my last contracts paper, I took that opportunity to try out a number of different word processing programs, Neo Office having been fired for poor performance after the January round of essays. The one that finally stuck was Scrivener, and the key feature that really sold me was its ability to treat ( Read more... )

How do I find out what processes are using the swap space on my mac? My istat pro widget shows 1.7 gig in swap and I'm told this is silly. raayat has been trying to help me (Thank you!), but is somewhat cursing my computer right now because it evidently does not behave in ways that it should (ie Linux). Bad Kitsune. Any ideas from the mac gurus out

I was asked this question on twitter the other day: what podcasts do you listen to? I am a very avid spoken word person and it was the ability to use mp3 players as little repositories of essentially radio programmes was one of the things that really sold me on the technology. I still love them and, despite a general distaste (yes still) for ( Read more... )

I am seriously, seriously tempted by the iPhone. On the raw consumerist level (aka the latest and greatest syndrome) - it is really shiny, and would be super fun to fiddle with. That, and everyone else seems to be getting one ( Read more... )

A hodge podge of what's in my life and head at the moment. . .

Work has blocked almost every social/fun website possible, including LJ and Facebook. Goodreads is still available and for some strange reason I still have access to a certain Great MAIL service. This is bothering me much more than it should given that it is their network afterall ( Read more... )

I need one of these

NEED

Now if the people doing Songbird had it in beta I wouldn't even hesitate. Damn iTunes for not playing well with others!!!

Why is it too much to ask that my palm, ical and gcal all play together nicely? WHY?

I can't be the only person on the planet that wants a reasonable solution to this.

Lots going on this week, so posting will be light. A sample of upcoming amusements:

• Comedy double bill (L'HEURE ESPAGNOLE / GIANNI SCHICCHI) at the Royal Opera with some friends tomorrow
  
• a modern/fusion dance performance of Mahabharata on Wednesday
  
• our first Intermediate tango class on Thursday
  
• weekend in Bruges with my photography group, organised ( Read more... )

after falling off . . .again. Not that life in our own personal universe hasn't been interesting mind you. Somebody needs to poke me when it's been more than a few days (let alone two weeks!) since I last posted. Last week's four day weekend was exactly what the doctor ordered (mostly lots of diablo, punctuated by tango, friends and art), but ( Read more... )