From the “Thought you might need this” Dept So I woke up this morning and said, you know what, Mike might need my install disks and restore disks for OS 10.1. So I pulled out my box for my iBook and through it into my back pack. In the morning I gave them to Mike,…

From the “iBook update Bomb and How I saved the Day” Dept. Well, I kind of saved the day….read on. Today Apple released a large OS update weighing in at 22 MBytes. It was suppose to offer a whole whizzbang set of functionality to the OS. In particular: Quartz Anti-Aliasing of fonts—So Now I have…

From the “I am losing weight” Dept. I admit it. I was gaining a massive amount of weight during the last 3 months of 2001. I’m not going to deny that. So I had Lunch with Laura (ex-girlfriend/best friend) today and she said I had lost weight. That’s good. She said that I looked horrible…

From the “Holy Shit! I have to lose some weight” Dept. Hi all, Well last weekend I worked on the computer, did some house chores and the like. I wanted to go fishing, but alas, it was not to be. I suppose I will have to wait until bass season opens. 😀 This upcoming Saturday…

From the “Highly Technical and Esoteric” Dept. Okay guys, you’ve been warned. For the past few days, I’ve been using a most wondrous shareware app. It’s a called LaunchBar, and it’s only for Mac OS 10.1. What does it do? It eliminates most of the mousing that I have to do on my iBook. How…

Lunch It’s Lunch time right now, for me at least. I realise that most people don’t eat lunch at 2:00 pm in the afternoon, but that seems to be the time I get hungry here are Critical Path. I wish I could show you guys some of the stuff I’m working on. It’s light years…

Well, it’s nearing the end of the day here at CP. I’m sitting at the same desk, typing on the same computer—it’s almost like nothing has changed. My task here is definitely daunting, and will prove to be very challenging over the next 6 weeks. I have to analyse the product suite that CP produces.…

So I started (or perhaps “re-started” is a better word) work at CP again. It’s a small contract for two, possibly three user tests over a 6-week period. A part of me hopes that it will be extended beyond that, but since it took 5 ½ months for my cracker-jack, 6-week contract to come through,…

From “Japanese Drink Emporium” Dept. So I tried Pocari Sweat today. It has the faint smell of grapefruit juice. It tastes like watered down grape fruit juice, but has a very smooth finish. No discernable acidity or bitterness. There’s a delicate balance of sweetnes and saltiness in play. Over all, it’s very flat (like distilled…

From the “Japan Theme Blog today” Dept. Hi all, Took an extended break from the blog. Nothing really to blog about. Last week: Went out with Byron to find a Mashimaro for his girlfriend Kim. Went to Pacific Mall (a hop, jump and a step from where I live). My take on Mashimaro? Well, from…