It’s been how long?!

I have just realised that my last post was at the end of August!

Since then I have mainly been:
Tweeting
Facebook-ing
XBoxLive-ing

It has got me thinking about whether I really need my official website. It’s up for renewal in a week or so…

10.6.0.

Got my Snow Leopard disk today.

Being a bit of  a geek where IT is concerned, and bearing in mind all the risks accociated with being an early adopter of a new OS version, I went for the update on my MacBook Pro. After all, my MBP is only a couple of months old and has no edgy software on it making it a safe target.

So I followed the usual steps, i.e. repaired permissions, cloned the HDD using CCC and ran a backup on Time Machine. Then I went for the upgrade. I can report that it went smoothly, taking about 40 minutes (against the 45 it estimated).

Early signs are that everything is cool. It’s shaved about 7GB off used disk space, app startups are faster and everything works, even Photoshop Elements using Rosetta. There is also a Beta of Cyberduck which I found works with SL.

So, that’s my experience of Snow Leopard to date. If I do find any problems with it I’ll update this post.

Know Your Enemy

I know mine. Procrastination. Well, actually it’s enemies: procrastination and being distracted down the easy path.

I have really let my guitar playing slide (no pun intended) over the last few months. There’s been so much important stuff to deal with that setting time aside to practice playing the guitar was not easy, so it just wasn’t happening. It needs more dedication than, for example, surfing the net or going on the XBox for half an hour.

Anyway I was browsing the magazine racks at the weekend and spotted the latest Total Guitar, which I do buy every now and again. Their riff of the month was Green Day’s “Know Your Enemy”, so I bought it. That Green Day track is so good (as is the whole 21st Century Breakdown album. So my next goal is to learn the Know Your Enemy riff and this will galvanise me into spending more time on the guitar.

It’s time to ROCK!

MacBook Pro!

The day after my MacBook arrived, Apple announced the revised MacBook Pro line up at WWDC. Speed bump and other features plus a price drop. I was a bit pissed by this, however a phone call to Apple Customer Support resolved the matter – I could return it and they’d ship the newer model. It took a while to turn around but my new MacBook Pro arrived yesterday. It’s lovely! Thank you Apple!

New MacBook – Nice!

OK so I finally made up my mind to buy a new Mac and it arrived today. It’s a lovely aluminum MacBook and it looks really cool! I’ve used Migration Assistant to set it up using my iBook, which got me up & running pretty quickly. As I write this it’s busy copying over all my music into iTunes. I will enjoy spending the next few evenings installing all the apps I need

This week I are mainly…

• Listening to Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
• Playing Wanted Weapons of Fate on XBox360
• Playing Call of Duty World at War on XBox Live
• Thinking about doing some chores

Going a bit Reggie Perrin

Back in the day when I watched the original Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin I found it extremely funny.

Now, after two episodes of the brilliant remake/reinvention staring Martin Clunes I find myself thinking “That’s me”, which in a strange way makes it even more hilarious. I didn’t get where I am without recognizing a mid life crisis!

17th/21st Lancer uniform

Browsing in Model Zone last week I discovered that Modellers Loft are doing reissues of classic Action Man figures and historic uniforms. This one has a special interest for me:

This week I are mostly…

• Taking it easy
• Doing a few chores
• Continuing COD5 on Veteran
• Enjoying not being at work

Airport disk sharing

Airport disk sharing now set up. I’ve had to delete my old Time Machine backups as they weren’t visible via Airport. Now to let TM run a complete backup and that’ll be everything set up.