Monthly Archive for October, 2007

Ars Technica has a typically excellent review of Apple’s latest operating system. (The review is excellent in it’s craftmanship; the quality of the OS you can decide.)

Maija won’t be getting it for a while, solely due to cost and no perceived benefits. She’s still trying to figure out how everything is done in Tiger, a task that I cannot always help with. I honestly do not understand the way you have to do many things in OS X.

Like any editing! Maija has me editing her essays; the following things drive me drive me nucking futs:
- the inability to forward delete (delete key on non-Mac keyboards)
- having to remember to use the Apple key rather than CTRL for all the keyboards shortcuts (I use keyboard shortcuts like a fiend)
- typerate is wierd, and the speed (read slowness) of the cursor moving across the page when you’re holding down an arrow key
- lack of home, end, page up, page down. I know I can accomplish these with the FUNC key… but I don’t have to do anything fancy on my Dell laptop keyboard (so don’t talk to me about space problems). AND the behaviour isn’t consistent… sometimes when using Firefox I have to press the Apple key instead of the FUNC key to activate home/end, etc… and making the wrong choice sends me back a page.

If any Mac user can help me with these seemingly simple problems I’ll be eternally grateful and my home will be filled with less yelling and cursing.

Sorry, I had so much fun in Helsinki that I got a bit sick, and then I had a crazy week of trying to fight a cold and working 16 hour days.

Dynamite Festival was good. Small cosy space with the right amount of people. Made some good connections; the other DJs were all great guys. I had a terrible time with my shoes… but that’s another story. In the end an ambulance assisted me with some bandages to stop the bleeding.

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Maija and I have both been through a few rough days over the last 2 weeks. We’ve been waiting, with no control, on so many things. It gets tiring having your issues worked on, after all.

Namely we’ve been waiting on her government support money, on our stuff to arrive from Canada, on a refund I’m due from Finnish immigration, and a couple of other things. I’m happy to say they’ve pretty much all sorted themselves out now over this week. Today is an excellent day, as our stuff finally arrived!

So we’re now unpacking things, finding homes for things. We feel very rich and special, haha. AND I’ll be spinning in Helsinki this weekend, so if you’re in the area, come on out.

First reaction… I’m nervous. Haven’t we all seen EA put out identical sports title year after year after year? Obviously they do a lot of other games, but I’m still worried about this.

News

I suppose it’s not so different from when Microsoft purchased Bungie, and that seemed to work out in the long run.

Little bit for the politicos.

Congresspedia is a US congress related wiki. They recently launched a project called “Wiki the Vote” where you can read, add, and edit the profiles of all US congressional candidates. I think is absolutely superb.

Senator Leland Yee is a hated figure by many in the video games industry for the bills he’s been pushing to restrict video games sales. Here’s an interesting interview with the man, who seems pretty level headed to me.

Nine Inch Nails is no longer on a record label. Following Radiohead, he’ll start distributing his music himself.

Word.

It’s just above zero degrees today, and snowing lightly.

LORD HELP ME.