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.
For Giz
Posted in Music on March 20, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Here’s an excerpt of what I did with the silly thing that Giz and I did a couple of weeks ago. I guess he won’t recognise most of it as all the guitars have been redone and I added another section… anyhow. Whatever.
DRM in music
Posted in Music on March 19, 2005 | Comments Off
I’ve been reading a bit about the future of the music industry (there’s an excellent interview with the founder of the online music label Magnatune here), and I have to agree that digital rights management, even as liberal as Apple’s music store is, just isn’t worth paying good money for. This quote (which I read [...]
A pear of cherries
Posted in Macs on March 18, 2005 | 1 Comment »
There’s been a bit of excitement at the moment over a program for the PC called CherryOS. It claims to allow your PC to run Mac OS X, and indeed it does. Problem is that it appears to be a thinly disguised copy of PearPC, open source software under the GPL. As is increasingly the [...]
With Microsoft, anybody can be a web developer!
Have you put on weight?
Posted in Geekery on March 17, 2005 | Comments Off
This might be the ultimate Mt. Everest hack. That is, because it’s there.
