One Man's Notes

I'm back in Suffolk again, providing Mum with some support before she goes into hospital again next week. Luckily my sister-in-law is handling all that, leaving me free to work and head to Le Web 3 in Paris.

But now the French are having a strike. On the day I'll be travelling home. Oh, joy. 

Ah, the trials of living in a Victorian-era building on a Victorian-era street that took some serious abuse during World War II. Thanks to the Luftwaffe, the drains in my part of Lewisham are less than robust. And, every now and then they block up, back up and flood my back passage.

What fun!

A lovely piece of music played with style by alan.

So, life.

I must getting better at posting to my blogs. I must get better at posting to my blogs.

It's a function of being a "professional" blog advisor, I suppose. I spend too long talking about blogs, and too little time doing it these days. That's sorta counter-productive, though. Becoming all mouth and no blog trousers, as it were, isn't going to do me, or the people I'm working with, any good at all.

So, I must reform. I must end my ways. I must put finger to keyboard and blog with strength and confidence, as once I blogged in the past. 

It's a new week. It's a new start. Here we go.

Oh, and here are some pics of my collegues:

Office life is so dynamic, isn't it?

This is my great great grandparents on holiday in Margate. Well, that or my great great great grandparents. My grandma's notes are hard to decipher sometimes.

I've been playing with the scanner again…

Pwned!

So, my copy of the new version of Mac OSX called Leopard (or, rather more prosaically, Mac OSX 10.5) arrived yesterday afternoon, at some point before I dragged myself out of my sickbed and into the office. I hesitated for all of about 30 seconds before installing it. (This seems to be the major difference between Mac and PC users right now - PC users are holding off from installing Vista for as long as possible, Mac users get Leopard on their machines the first moment they can).

It too about an hour, once I'd rebooted, I discovered thet the line "add a new Mac to you Mac" isn't just advertsiing puff - it genuinely does feel like a new machine. The visual aesthetic of the new OS is markedly different from previous interations, giving the interface a new, pleasingly solid feel. CoverFlow for documents is just terrific, and Quicklook (whereby you can hit the space bar while selecting a document, and open a detailed preview without having to open the actual application) is shaping up to be one of those "how did I live without it?" features.

And, most importantly, World of Warcraft runs just fine.

All good, so far.