Ramblings

It’s been many years since I noted down my 25 most played songs (in iTunes, anyway).  The list has an immense amount of inertia behind it, so there’s now things in that I typically skip, but enough has changed since the last posting that I think it has meaning. Also, I really don’t trust my… Read more

Got my iPad 2 today. :D :D :D :D :D :D It’s so shiny!  And thin!  My old iPad is already bitching and moaning about being “replaced” and “detritus” and “nobody would even care if I just blew up my own motherboard” or whatever. Of course, superficially it’s not hugely different – it’s way thinner,… Read more

Just let Skype auto-update itself to version 5.  W..T..F..  the new UI is slick enough, yes, but it’s bloody huge.  The smallest window size is far from small.  It’s so bloody big I have to keep it closed by default. While the prior versions weren’t pretty nor fast, they were functional and sufficiently minimal.  This… Read more

Today I bought a pair of skis from some random woman at Google.  They’re probably hers, and are a fair bit shorter than I’d probably take generally, but I was pleasantly surprised when I got home to discover that they really aren’t that much shorter than my existing ski.  They’re also in good condition, seem… Read more

To compound the issue, my iPad become utterly full once more today, to the point where it refused to even transfer purchases back to my iMac, let alone sync.  Le sigh.  After turning down the sync period for my work account, from a month to just three days, it now claims it recovered 1.8 GiB… Read more

I left work slightly early tonight to visit Best Buy and an AT&T store in search of an iPad 2.  Unfortunately, both were sold out.  Best Buy said they might get another shipment sometime in the next few days, AT&T said they were doing reserved orders only and the backlog was already up to four… Read more