2007 — 24 Mar: what shall we do today, I wonder?
I've always hated planning ahead but, now that breakfast is a fading memory, I suppose I'd better leap into activity. Failing that, I could finish the delightful essay by Richard Jenkyns that I bought yesterday and began while sitting patiently in the Aldi car park waiting for She who must be adored to do whatever the heck it is She does in that place.
That's me under the tree, by the way!
And this edit is coming to you on the iMac courtesy of TextWrangler and an SSH session using Cyberduck. Meanwhile, if you're reading this, Tom, your Wait(s)ing is nearly over as I've had the Audacity to do that transcription for you on the XP1 system. I think (with luck) the upshot will be an audio CD with one or more .wav files on it though you may have to weave a further little magic on it.
Software software everywhere...
The long-awaited round tuit showed up, so I have now installed, and upgraded, and crashed a) Aperture 1.5.2 (the crash occurred while trying to import some sample projects) and b) installed FileMakerPro 8.5 on the iMac. I would have added the improved digital camera RAW format support for the Canon EOS 400D but, alas, it flatly refused to go onto the iMac because it seems my level of Mac OS X (at 10.4.9) is now a step too recent for it. I must say, I was glad I didn't read all the user experiences of problems with the 10.4.9 upgrade until after I'd put it on — I might never have had the nerve otherwise. (It went on completely smoothly — is this not normally the case, I wonder?)
Junior asked me today whether he should get a Mac and I found myself advising a degree of caution. I think he would find it a bit irritating, and a bit frustrating. Plus I don't think the portables are particularly good value for money. Still, he's richer than me, so it's up to him.