State of the Union

Its 15 mins to midday on Sunday and I’m on the couch with my laptop watching Family Guy. Life is tough.

The move to Warrnambool has generally been a good one. Work is bearable and actually interesting at points. I’ve started to build up a decent group of friends around town. There’s lots of young people who have moved here for work. Doctors, Dentists, Optometrists, Dieticians, and too many lawyers.

I’ve been learning to surf, but going to pack that in for the year now that its getting cold. Quitting smoking hasn’t gone to plan, but will get there one day I hope.

Money is very tight unfortunately. Two people living off one very measly income is not as fun as its sounds. Not much to complain about though, we’re never going to have trouble paying the rent or anything because we both have parents that would help out before that ever happened.

I very much needed a break this weekend. All that remains to be seen is how many wills I will have to draft this week.

Best Computer Ever

The iPod Touch is the best computer that I have ever owned.I never would have believed it but it has almost completely replaced my laptop for web-browsing when I’m at home. It is much better at contact and calendar management than my mobile when I’m out and keeps me entertained as well. I can’t wait for an iPhone now.  

Microlight parachute mishap

Ouch. I’m sure that parachute seemed like a good idea…

links for 2007-09-25

• Iconfactory : Software : Ipulse
  (tags: mac software)
• Flying Meat: Acorn
  (tags: mac graphics editor software)
• Presumed idiot criminal uploads pix of self from stolen iMac – Boing Boing
  (tags: flickr crime)
• » New version of Gmail being tested | Googling Google | ZDNet.com
  (tags: google gmail new)
• ChooChooChooChooBeepBeep – Hello, this is DEERHOOF
  (tags: music deerhoof indie recommended)
• Featured Mac Download: Caffeine keeps your Mac awake – Lifehacker
  (tags: mac software)
• nobodymove!: Unreleased Doves tracks
  (tags: music)

Random thoughts for today

Right so birthday was last week. I’m now 23 and facing the harsh reality that no one cares about your freakin birthday when you get older. Had a really good dinner though on Sat night at the Grand Hotel in Richmond which has a funky Italian style dining room. Service was great too. The light on the horizon is the iPod touch that I will be getting very shortly to replace my ancient 20GB 4G iPod. V excited about that and glad that all the screen issues seem to be getting sorted.

I have also recently rediscovered del.icio.us and am trying to use it to find interesting stuff to read while I’m at work. I think I’ve read the whole internets by now and I’m bored. It also does automatic daily link posts which I have always hated on other sites but now have to have now. So enjoy!

Finally, my last day at my current job cannot come soon enough. The 26th of November is the day I think. Then its off to Thailand for a month, back home for Christmas and Jan and Feb off until I have to become a grown up and start wearing a suit everyday in Warrnambool.

Oh, and check out these photos of 40 of the new fatboy Nanos all laid out. Its all over the interwebs by now.

links for 2007-09-24

• Stream your iTunes library to your iPhone and iPod touch
• Mighty Mouse Repair Guide – How to Clean Your Apple Mighty Mouse
  (tags: apple hardware mouse mighty Macstuff)

Google Reader Notifier

There is a Google Reader Notifier or two out there. Who knew?

This one works pretty much exactly like the Google Mail and Calendar Notifiers on the Mac, the only downside being that it uses more than its fair share of memory.

It also provides a way to make Google Reader your default RSS reader in Safari which is quite difficult in my experience. Though I’m back on Firefox at the moment anyway.

Oh and the icing on the cake, it integrates with Growl, the system wide notification tool for the Mac. If you don’t have that either, then get it now.

First seen on Lifehacker

Consumerist feed crashing Google Reader

Every time I open The Consumerist feed in Google Reader using IE6 (I’m at work and don’t have a choice, though I do skin it with Portable Firefox using IE Tab so I can have tabbed browsing) it crashes. Google yields nothing. Anyone experiencing this?

Desklickr: Great name, flickr on desktop

This software is pretty great. I often don’t use flickr that much because I don’t have that much use for it but it ties in pretty well with facebook and a few other things now and is pretty handy occassionally. Desklickr (mac only) basically just takes either your flickr feed or a particular tag search or favourited photos or whatever and makes them appear on your desktop as your background. It can change them at set intervals or you can change it at your leisure. Check it out.

Funny flow-chart

A friend at uni gave this to me and its pretty funny.