Over the last couple of days, I have ordered four, count them, four programming books for the Mac. Head First Java AppleScript : The Missing Manual Programming in Objective-C Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X I’ve been told by my supervisor at work that Under No Circumstances am I permitted to ssh into my Linux [...]
Archive for March, 2005
Geek… verging on nerd
Posted in Macs on March 31, 2005 | 2 Comments »
The horror
Posted in Geekery on March 31, 2005 | Comments Off
Because of the utter stupidity of Symantec’s ‘Norton Internet Security’ app, I have been recommending to customers for a long time now to rely on the Windows XP firewall. You’d expect that with all the fuss Microsoft has been making about their New Approach To Security that the XP SP2 firewall would be pretty safe, [...]
Book 'em, Danno
Posted in General on March 31, 2005 | Comments Off
Last night Crumpet interrupted my geeky gaming to let me know that she’d sold the rights to use a couple of her paintings on the covers of some music education books. Money! Money she owes me! Yay!! Go piggybank!
Last week I found a link to a torrent file of the entire South by Southwest music festival – one song per artist. I downloaded them into a new iTunes playlist, and lookee, two entire days worth of music. Surely there’s something for everybody in there, and for free who can complain? My iPod is [...]
Brrrrrm.. *phut*
Posted in General on March 24, 2005 | 1 Comment »
I got back from the mechanic with the motor about 45 minutes ago, $1140 poorer. Hopefully that’s the last we’ll be spending on the car until the next general service.
