Sweet Cucumber

I was hard at work on my computer, when suddenly one of my certified diskettes had a failure. So now I have to reinstall GEM 1.0. Darn. I must have lost at least 360Kb of work !

When Browsers Go Wrong:

This can happen when database-driven websites get updated just at the exact moment when you load a page…
Click the above image for a larger view… But not as large as it really was: the screen snapshot is in reality 3300 x 2200 pixels (took me about 4 screenshots).
Anyway, I didn’t even want […]

This just in from a certain weather-uk.com domain:
Geraes, sta. Catharina and espirito santo silver, noticed
which farms had good crops he heard the of houses to which
one begins to get reconciled. I’d rely on it every time.
no good in court, of you think i know what household affairs
are? And she excelled in several branches of sport. […]

Mac OS 10.5.2 has just been released.
A whopping 430MB download.
Don’t forget to run Software Update immediately again after the OS update, cuz there’s already a Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 in the pipeline as well.
Say cheers.

Holy Mother of ehm, God !
Apple suddenly and unexpectedly smacks us in the face with a new Tower of Power Lust Covetousness™.
Although MWSF (Mac World San Francisco) is still a week to the horizon, Apple took its Apple Store down this morning (this always happens on a Tuesday), and now presents us with this OUL […]

Another sweet baby arrived on my doorstep today.
Seven (7) DVD’s to install, twothousandandthree (2003!) manual pages to wade through.
Gimme another five years or so, and I’ll be making music…
Click the image above to check out Apple’s site on Logic Studio.

I want a PC.
No, really. (*)
This guy Jeffrey Stephenson makes the most amazing PC enclosures.
Some of his designs - especially the G-metric Nano [pictured above] - are jawdroppingly beautiful, and make me wish that PC manufacturers, including Apple, would be a bit more original, artistic and elegant in their designs. I’m getting a bit tired […]

There’s an interesting discussion going on in the Analog Heaven mailing list [all things analogue synthesis] about which way is best to get your audio signals (mics, instruments, synths) into your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation, like Logic, Cubase, Sonar, etc).
Basically it boils down to two-and-half choices:
- either use a multi-port AD converter (Apogee Ensemble {my […]

Whilst I’m re-installing all of my apps and documents and shit, I’m beginning to pick up some of the smaller enhancements and improvements of Leopard…
Although I am aware of 10.5’s glaring bugs, omissions and other misfortunate hickups - it’s been documented enough and it kept me from installing it from day one - I must […]