Makes it easier to update shit you don’t update. By the way how awesome is mobile browsing, if only more websites used proper CSS, like mine. Don’t worry I’ll fix it soon.

Need to find a way to update you fuckers of cool music, maybe that dangfalded last.fm has a use after all. What’s that? Twatter? I’ll scratch my balls whenever I damn feel like it, no need to tell the world about it.

Stop asking for my FaceSpace, I don’t subscribe to that bullshit.

No matter how much wine I’ve had.

Happy new year. It’s February. And Shit. Err, not much new. Possibly moving house soon. Still serving the local electronic slaughterhouse. Many, many hours per week. Now using an iBook G4, still waiting for new MacBook Pros.

Possibly going to be at the below mentioned event for the lulz. Bring /b/lackup if you’re coming.

I have a car, and nowhere to go. My computer still sucks, I’m now servicing PCs faster than mine, except for that P166 today running XP, hilarity ensues. ADSL2 at the local DSLAM here fails epically, I think our phone line routes via Venezuela before reaching the exchange. I’m currently playing – nothing. I’m currently listening to – shit that everyone else discovered 6 weeks ago. At this rate I’ll be hoping for a new walking cane by Christmas.

Nothing much new. Acquired a 7800GS which is a small upgrade from my 6800 Ultra, has helped playing HL2 Episode One and Two. Bought the Orange Box primarily for the HL saga but was pleasantly surprised by Portal, best summed up by Yahtzee from TheEscapist.

Also keen to try out Call of Duty 4, looks like the first quality game in a long time (HL series excluded). Crysis is also supposed to be pretty good, although I’m scared of what it might do to my PC. Gaming seems to be picking up at the moment, after a long stretch of the same old stale gaming stereotypes. Almost enough to make me want a new PC, almost. I still think I would be content with replacing my desktop with a MacBook Pro, the 8600M GT certainly has the performance to keep up with the average desktops. Financially this is not really viable for me at the moment, and I’m not sure I have the time to be playing games anyway. Especially since I’m running the local electronic slaughterhouse at the moment while the boss and other staff are on holidays.

Would’ve bought it, but not doing financially too well right now. Probably worth the money, although I’m not happy with Apple splitting up the “Family Pack” (multiple license install). Not that there’s any difference between the two other than the box, the disc is identical. I happened across a copy anyway.

Am I happy with it? Sure.
Am I impressed by it? Far from it. The new features are nice, a lot of stuff has been a long time coming, like icon/JPEG previews in the Finder, but a lot of stuff still seems stuck in the 90s. Highlight 3 out 5 files in a folder and try and find out their total size (File > Get Info). Finder aside, graphically I’m far from impressed either. As cheesy as I think Vista is, I was expecting Apple to do something really extraordinary, something to make Vista look as out of fashion as possible. I was hoping that Apple’s “top secret” features included some kind of UI overhaul, maybe not to the extent of Illuminous, although I wouldn’t have been disappointed had that been the end result.

But a transparent dock and thicker shadows seems like half-baked attempt at sprucing up the now-aging Aqua interface. The transparent menu bar is also a complete waste of time, I’ve lost count of the number of Digg articles showing how to disable this or work around it.

All in all, it’s a good step forward, and I am happy with Leopard overall. I just would’ve liked to have seen that extra 1%. Maybe 10.6 will answer my prayers.