I’ve ordered a Nintendo Wii. This will be my first ever games console, so I need a bit of advice on what games to get. So far, I’ve ordered: The Wii with Sports Pack Extra Wii-mote and Nunchuck (I share the flat with 2 others so would be fun to have multiplayerness) Rayman’s Ravin Rabbids [...]
The WWDC coverage at Engadget is pretty good, with lots of pictures. Basically, we’ve got up to 3GHz dual dual-core Xeon (Woodcrest) Mac Pros, Xeon Xserves coming in a couple of months, and some info about what’s going to be in Leopard. Notably cool things under that last heading include: “Spaces” (a very polished-looking implementation [...]
This is mainly to annoy Emma. She mentioned that she’d had to implement a conversion between base 36 and base something-else (64?). I cannot begin to describe how horrible that would be in COBOL. But in Ruby… ;-) Admittedly, to do this more “the Ruby way”, I’d write this as a module, or a mixin, [...]
Well, I went and bought the MacBook. I’m still getting it set up how I want it, but I have transferred all my old email across and got Safari bookmarks & Address Book synchronising nicely between my 2 Macs. I am now sitting in the garden, have sent the emails I wrote whilst on the [...]
Apple finally released the MacBook, the Intel-based sucessor to the iBook. It comes in 3 models, at 3 prices. The cheapest is £749 and is very tempting. The other two are priced at £899 and £1028.99 and differ in only two ways: hard disk size (60GB vs. 80GB) and colour (white vs. black). So thats, [...]
My site is now hosted by Prime Hosting. I’ve switched away from WebFusion for 3 reasons: I was paying too much. WebFusion only offered me 1 MySQL database; I now get 5, which is plenty. Prime Hosting offers Ruby and Ruby on Rails support. This is a Good Thing™ as Ruby is cool. :-) I [...]
Apple announced another press event for this Wednesday, mentioning something about their pro range of products. This can only mean PowerMac updates at last! :) Saw Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit yesterday with Emma and Paul. Was good fun, but unfortunate that circumstances had forced me into going to a 2pm [...]
Apple’s “one more thing…” gave us iTunes 6 (hot on the heels of iTunes 5), video-playing iPods, iTMS selling videos (what kind of quality, I wonder?) and a thinner iMac with “Front Row”, a remote control, built-in iSight and no modem. I’m disappointed. Partly because I don’t see the point of video on an iPod. [...]
Reading Tom Holt’s The Portable Door, I came across this wonderful line (emphasis mine): Married sisters in Broitwich and unreliable cousins made much more sense in the cold light of morning than Gilbert and Sullivan bearing down on him like a brace of Nazgul. Intriguing news items on the Mac rss feeds this morning: Apple [...]