December 2006
7 posts
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Soapbox, Christmas-ish
Given that Christmas is now less than a month away (where has this year gone? Seriously, you’d like to know who stole it), and you weren’t particularly happy with the wintery theme your blog has had for the last month, so you decided it was time for a Christmas theme.
Your Christmas-isation of your blog has been limited to a Christmas tree in the header and a not particularly witty...
November 2006
15 posts
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You know you want one
Any review that starts with:
I have right here in my hot little hands that actually aren’t all that little
and are only slightly warm at the moment a brand new lick-ready
smooth-as-love Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo Super Orgasm Deluxe
Ultrahard Modern Computing Device Designed by God Herself Somewhere
in the Deep Moist Vulva of Cupertino Yes Yes Don’t Stop Oh My God...
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First snow
First snow, originally uploaded by thepatrick.
First snow of Winter 2006, and more importantly my first snow, full stop. I need to upload photos from today as well.
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Toolkit
You’ve heard the saying about the man, woman, or indeed possibly cat (though that may have been translated incorrectly by you) blaming his tools, but you swear by the collection you’ve picked up. You could, if absolutely necessary, work without this toolkit, but you’d significantly less happy, if not a blubbering mess.
MacBook Pro
Since you first picked up a modern...
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Fresh Water
You, like most people in a modern country, take a few things for granted. These things include electricity, the internet, maybe a phone of some sort, availability of food that will probably end up killing you, that sort of thing. These are things that occasionally you have to go without (a power cut, cable goes down, a screen breaks in your pocket, or perhaps oh dear deity the shops are shut), and...
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Decade d2
Over two years ago you started Decade. It was written in a couple of days in PHP, with a very simple admin interface (that allowed you to add images, and upload them). You always planned to get back to it and give it a proper interface that would allow you to edit things, replace images when you entered the wrong date (which was a textbox that expected Y-m-d style dates).
Today you announce that...
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MacAppADay
You feel like providing some free advertising, so you’re posting this despite the fact that it makes you feel a little dirty. You’ll have a shower, and forget about it.
You’ve been checking out this site called MacAppADay. They’re going to give away 5,000 copies of a popular mac application each and every day of December. The app changes at midnight PST each day.
Have a mac?...
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CSSEdit revisited
So it turns out that CSSEdit has these really awesome nag screen messages. Seriously, you were so impressed by them, and possibly a little frightened by the one that said it was going to buy itself, that you bought it. Yes, really.
You seem to have been buying software a lot more frequently in recent times, and you think this has a lot to do with the really great Mac developer community who just...
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CSSEdit
You’re not one to be easily swayed by new software coming out (except when it’s really really fancy looking, but even then only briefly), and while you subscribe to VersionTracker, you only do that because secretly they guilted you into it by offering a special deal to people who used to get something for free out of .Mac.
Where were you? Oh yes, CSSEdit version 2 was released today,...
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VFS cafe
The one problem with working downtown is that you have an abundance of lunch options. You here your readers cry “why would this possibly worry you?”, but it’s fairly simple really - most of the options are either generic, in a food court, part of a gigantic chain or a combination of the above.
There is a bizarre number of sandwich places, most of which also offer soup, of...
PQphotos beta 2
PQphotos beta 2, originally uploaded by thepatrick.
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Entertain this
Usually you’re not a computer gamer. Oh, you play tetris (some might say you’re addicted - you can’t have Quinn in your dock, or it just launches itself all the time… you’re at a loss as to how), but for the most part that’s it. However, this week two games have come into your life. These are Platypus and American History Lux, the former a good old fashioned...
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New toy
iPod shuffle, originally uploaded by thepatrick.
The best part was the price (it cost you nothing).
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Aperture 1.5.1
It’s out, ready to download via Software Update or download. There’s even now a free trial. It’s not a small update (128MB, big just like 1.5 was).
Apparently:
Aperture 1.5.1 improves overall reliability and performance in
many areas of the application, including keywords, the Loupe, cropping,
previews, metadata presets, file renaming, iPhoto library import, and
...
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Halloween
Coming from a country that doesn’t really do Halloween (oh sure, we pretend, but lets be honest) being in North America was… well, to be honest, a bit of a let down. On one hand there was only a handful of trick or treaters (and thankfully no trickers). On the other you got to witness the strangest thing you’ve seen so far: adults dressing up in costumes.
What’s that you...