Great Wall Of Dell

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Originally uploaded by MidBlueMac.

I constructed a little wall out of Dell boxes to cut down on the glare - a hazard of the sunny weather recently.
Doesn't look like anyone's noticed. I don't want to get sunburned at my freaking desk.

Google Commute

I'm not going to comment on Mr GoogleBlogger, self-censorship, or PR stunts. I will say that after reading ninetyninezeros' blog I am awaiting commuter mobile wifi. In fact I actually wonder if that is real. I've had the 1.5 hr bus commute, but sadly with only a tape walkman for company (I am OOOOOOOOOLD).

Tired

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Originally uploaded by MidBlueMac.

Through temperature, or perhaps being exhausted past the point where one can expect a restful night's sleep, I am bleary eyed and foggy beyond all reason today. (Well, sharp enough to realise I'd dated some paperwork for last year. Ooops).
My office is a fishbowl with an ongoing parade of dazed salesmonkeys. (YES, Its a SCREEN!) I take it back, salesgoldfish.
My paperwork is like pushing an exceedingly dull boulder up a hill (I fully expect to get squashed by the boulder soon enough if I don't get out of its way, recent developments).
My eyes are sore and tired. I have new glasses so it could be worse, at least they focus. It's been GroundHog Day for a week (same paperwork, some horrible weather).

Hmmmm. Cocoa.

I've gotten inspired to try to learn Cocoa so I can write a small program. It's a terminal application that does a few extra things that I'd like to see in a terminal app. Of course this is all talk, I haven't learned Objective C yet ;p
Its a problem that every time I read the documentation I crave chocolate brownies. Hmmmm, Cocoa.

The view from Myers

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Originally uploaded by MidBlueMac.

View from Myers

Mac Mini Carry Bag

Today's Earworm- Cult Of Mac Interview

Five seconds after release, Mac Mini has a cute little Tom Bihn carrybag. Bless.

Everyone is Big Brother

Today's link is http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php . This is a page composed of random camera feeds from those wonderfully secure AXIS cameras that Google helped us find.

Most of the feeds are weirdly anonymous. Where, specifically, are they? Do they know that the cameras are public? That they're being watched?

Again with the posting

Hmm hopefully that sound is the nice RACV person dropping D off.
Yes, it is. *hugs D*

Commuters, be nice to D on the train tomorrow. He's not used to it.

In crazy news, I've just signed up to do a Grad Dip in IT Management via ola.edu.au (through RMIT + ACS).

Option-Cmd-Arrow

There are few things more mindlessly glorious than running Virtual Desktop for OSX, and setting the transition to be 'spinning cube'. Option-Cmd-Arrow and your desktop spins to the next virtual desktop. It is a thing to inspire awe and jealousy in all kinds of PC users.
Option-Cmd-Arrow *SPIN*. Option-Cmd-Arrow *SPIN*.

Small things, hey ...

I have some important things happening this week, and it feels like a good omen that I could find all the paperwork I needed.

A less good omen is that D is marooned at the 7-11 because the clutch on the Lanos has failed. I'm waiting for the RACV to drop him back. :(

I can't be Flarked today

Today's Earworm- The Limbo Song (WHY????)

The New Years break is over.

My iBook just gave me the Multilingual Screen Of Death but it hasn't done it in months so hopefully it was just a software spaz.

I put together a new bookcase (called Flarke) to house D's prodigious DVD collection. I find putting together furniture kind of relaxing. The process of obtaining the furnture, is *not* so relaxing and involves a long drive followed by projectile-child dodging and concludes with a treasure hunt followed by car-tetris. (There is a guide available). D wanted to know why the hell I forced him out on this trek and the truth is that I like Ikea because of the way the furniture often flips out or folds up, or has a cool design in some other way. I'm talking about stuff like the blue LED chandelier, the folding chairbed, or the translucent white desklamp that fits in suspiciously well with the "Mac-istan" on my desk (the lamps are also available in iMac fruit colors).
The DVDs are guarded by an Alien bobblehead and the Master Chief sitting on top of the bookcase.
I've new glasses with progressive lenses on order, with more rectangular frames. I tried the thicker plastic frames that are fashionable now, but I looked like the blonde guy from the Lone Gunmen. So it's metal frames again.
My old lenses are scratched up, and my prescription has changed a little bit. I'm getting distance correction across the top, for those days when my eyes are tired. As in most.

NYE was a non-event, we briefly stopped watching Buffy DVDs to wish each other Happy New Year. D is still watching 'Buffy, the Doom and Gloom years' this evening. I'd sort of stopped caring about most of the cast at that point (6,7), and it had fallen off my must-see list. Willow's big arc had been played out (and fumbled), the show wasted time on whiney slayerettes, Buffy was a hypocritical bitca, there were pacing problems, the Big Bad was just plain boring and amounted to an evil twin most of the time, Kennedy existed, and the new monsters were *super-vampires*. *Sigh*. Anya and Andrew were comedy gold sometimes and Wood was an interesting character but the story arc was spaghetti.

My sci-fi series 3 rule holds - that any 'genre' series, once it makes it to season 3, will enjoy its best season. It's all downhill from there.