Ramblings

Tax return

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My tax return cheque arrived the other day… that’s only, what, 8, 9 months since I filed? Go IRS.

Pointless

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Driving home tonight someone was trying to high beam me, since I was only doing the speed limit, but they were tail-gating so close that I couldn’t see their lights at all – I only just barely noticed the change in intensity from the ambient glow.

Hey presto, darkness

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My 23″ Cinema Display stopped working last night. It worked in the morning, and now it doesn’t. I have no idea what happened or what’s broken. I miss it… having to put my Safari windows on the same monitor as Mail just seems inappropriate.

Dirty, so very dirty

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I took advantage of CrossOver’s somewhat undesired give-away of their products, as part of their Lame Duck challenge. I don’t particularly have any Windows stuff I want to run, but I thought I’d check out World of Goo – it sounded like fun and it seems to be pretty popular. I had to laugh at… Read more

Sleep!

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Francisco has been away for the most of the last week or two… first in London for some conference, and currently down in L.A. at some wedding or somesuch. It’s been awesome – aside from this weekend where David & friends apparently didn’t sleep at all, it’s been perfectly quiet, and I’ve been getting decent… Read more

Do we have one of those economy things here as well?

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So…. economy, eh? That’s been a boatload of fun and candy the last few weeks. Not that I’ve ever mistaken Apple’s actual performance, prospects, quality or merit with the share price, but it’s nonetheless something I keep an eye on, for shits and giggles if nothing else. Technically and actually I am in fact a… Read more