I just did the coolest thing I've ever done on a Mac - well, two of them, and they both involved Terminal.
Number 1: I played Tetris via Terminal. It was cool. emacs>escape>x>tetris. All good.
Number 2: I ssh'd Crispin's computer downstairs to tell him to come to bed. This was more difficult than it looked. Although the command when you're on the same network is a piece of piss!! ssh username, simple as that. I went for the remote version first (getting ahead of myself), with ssh -l compaddress ipaddress. It didn't work (while idly wondering how it was supposed to know which machine on the network it was, I forgot that it should have been username@machine, and ommitted the @machine). I figured he'd switched off remote login, so I went downstairs, made him minimise EVE online and turned it on (he hadn't, but I noticed the @machine bit helpfully displayed on the menu, and went 'oh crap'), thus defeating the principle, but anyway - I was on a mission.
I went back upstairs then and did ssh -l username@machine ipaddress, wherein Terminal helpfully added this to my list of trusted peeps. Then it told me bash didn't know what the command for my ipaddress was - so I figured it didn't need it. So, I forgot about the -l bit, and did ssh username@machine, and it worked.
So clearly, I then did the following.
say "it is late, come to bed please". I had the bedroom door open, so I could hear the faint sound of amusement coming from downstairs - but it was nothing next to the smile on my face. Sure, it's a tiny achievement to long-haul command line peeps. But it was a big deal to me. :D
Thanks, MacLife :P
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
How My MBP is configured
Ok, so this is just sad, I realise, but I'm sat here with the thing happily on my lap while Crispy plays Blue Dragon, so I figure I might as well get my typing fingers on, innit.
My MBP is an early 2009 model 17" MacBook Pro, with 4GB of memory and a 320GB 7200 RPM. I didn't get the SSD option, and slightly regret it. I cancelled the anti-glare option and am so glad I did as Engadget can go suck eggs whining about the 'glare' option, it looks WAY better. I also didn't pay the £800 to get the 8GB of memory I'll never use :P
My MBP is an early 2009 model 17" MacBook Pro, with 4GB of memory and a 320GB 7200 RPM. I didn't get the SSD option, and slightly regret it. I cancelled the anti-glare option and am so glad I did as Engadget can go suck eggs whining about the 'glare' option, it looks WAY better. I also didn't pay the £800 to get the 8GB of memory I'll never use :P
- I have iLife '09 and iWork '09 installed (more on that later)
- Bootcamp partition to run Serif (for work, I hate the thing), maybe FFXI Online
- VMWare to virtualise Bootcamp Partition. Haven't gotten around to installing Ubuntu, might not bother as wouldn't ever use, only for posing. Lol.
- Candybar to make my Dock look like WALL-E/Dangermouse
- WoW just because. I don't love it, but you have to have an MMO, and it's so easy to get hold of and pay for.
- Handbrake for converting my MPEG-2 files from my Handycam to MPEG-4's that my Mac can view.
- Skype for work :(
- Spotify for its total awesomeness. EVERYONE should have Spotify.
- twhirl for Twitter. I did use TweetDeck, but twhirl is just SO much simpler and shinier.
- Wikipedia
- Weather (so handy!)
- Twidget (for those quick updates)
- Wallsaver (to pose - don't actually use it, is too distracting)
- iStatPro (useful!!)
- Calculator (handy)
- Dice Roller (lol, easy for rolling damage dice while roleplaying, as there are no D5s in real life, and dividing a d10 by two is too time consuming when you're in a sweat up against an Orc with your life on the line!)
- Sticky with my home IP address so I can afp to my home iMac if needs be.
Giving Advice
Today, I realised I was a Mac person. I mean, I knew this already, but I'd always thought of myself as a bit of a wannabe - but to be fair, the other people I knew who were Mac heads are my partner Crispin, whose Mac knowledge goes back decades (literally, DECADES), and of course, Chad, Andrew, Jocke and Yegor, all of whom are so scarily elite that it doesn't actually bear thinking about. I admire all 5 for their complete geekdom, and as I could barely find the Terminal window, let alone ssh anything (I was confused when Crispin me to 'just chmod it' recently, which is a pretty basic command, for shame!), I'd always just assume I'm a basic user.
Which is complete bollox, of course. You don't have to be able to compile stuff to know what you're talking about, and today, when a friend of mine finally got around to setting up the old Powerbook G4 he'd bought for £300 off a friend, he started asking me questions ('How do I delete stuff off the Dock', 'How do I change the name of my hard drive', and of course, 'what Twitter app do you use?'), and then he came back with 'I just asked three Mac people the same question...' He included me in his list of Mac people, despite the fact that I never even USED one properly before just over a year ago (technically a lie - we only had Macs when I was in secondary school, so I've used OS 9 with Cubase, teh awsumz).
Just a silly small thing, but it made me proud.
Which is complete bollox, of course. You don't have to be able to compile stuff to know what you're talking about, and today, when a friend of mine finally got around to setting up the old Powerbook G4 he'd bought for £300 off a friend, he started asking me questions ('How do I delete stuff off the Dock', 'How do I change the name of my hard drive', and of course, 'what Twitter app do you use?'), and then he came back with 'I just asked three Mac people the same question...' He included me in his list of Mac people, despite the fact that I never even USED one properly before just over a year ago (technically a lie - we only had Macs when I was in secondary school, so I've used OS 9 with Cubase, teh awsumz).
Just a silly small thing, but it made me proud.
Oh, the saga.
So, it has been a little while, and that is for a reason - there was a saga. A sad saga. :(
My divinely gorgeous piece of kit was ill! So ill, in fact, that it is now sitting being looked at in Apple, and I have a brand new one. So. What happened, I hear you ask?
God only knows what the actual issue was, because no amount of testing on the Mac support forums could work it out, but it was something to do with the GPU firmware. It was causing lots of vertical purple lines on the screen.
Here is part of my desktop: http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7267/img6409x.jpg
Here's the whole desktop normally: http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2628/img6412r.jpg
How horrific! So, obv, first thing I did was Google it, and discovered I wasn't alone (I had somehow missed a post on Engadget about it which I got through Mail, dunno how I missed that one!) - there were a ton of people having the same problem, which they attributed to the NVIDIA 9600M GPU. Now, I had never used the 9600M GPU - only the 9400, because I was all for the better battery life, and figured that for what I use this beastie for, I probably wouldn't need it for a while (which begs the question why I have this thing in the first place, but how and soever). I put in my tuppence worth. I rang up Apple, but had a feeling it wasn't going to be something they could solve over the phone, and boy was I vindicated when the person on the phone asked me to remove my battery.
I lol'd. Lots. Why? You would too, if you'd spent the better part of three days on a train testing the battery life of the new, shiny, non-removable battery, subject of scorn on tech blogs who like hotswapping over actual decent battery life. (there's a video and everything, at http://www.apple.com/uk/macbookpro/)
So. I was NOT amused, and told the guy on the phone, rather snootily as I felt like I was dealing with a complete idiot at this point, that I could not remove the battery, as it was the new 17" MBP with non-removable battery. He was confused. He put me on hold. He went to speak to a Tier 2 support person (I later found out the Tier 2s all work out of Cork and France, how cool is that). He came back to me and told me I would have to go to my nearest Apple store as they could do nowt for me on the phone. I was cross, as the nearest Apple store is in Liverpool. He booked me an appointment. I went to the Apple store and met the lovely James.
The lovely James changed my world - he was a smart, geeky, funny little ginger who knew his stuff. He asked me what was wrong. I opened up my MBP, and he excitedly went 'oh, the new 17"!' I turned it to him and said 'you tell me', at which point he recoiled. He asked if it was a custom configuration from the online store. I said yes. He then started to apologise in an embarassed way for what the Tier 1 I spoke to said, because (as he said) they couldn't replace it in store - it had to be shipped out and customised. I didn't mind too much as he was so nice. I could have taken him home to my Mum, he was so sweet. He showed me many things. I lol'd when he asked me what the FCC of my machine was - he meant the full charge capacity (which means my battery has many millions of powers), I thought he meant the serial code of the certification from the Federal Communications Commission. Too much Engadget. Sigh. The online store peeps emailed him a form I had to fill in. I did so. He emailed it back to them after I went home.
Two days later I'd heard nothing from the online store, so I called them and said 'OI!', to be told that they'd received my email back (via James), and would now process my return but I had to wait for their supervisor to ok it because I wanted it before I had to send back the old one. I said I didn't mind if that was the case :P The girl I spoke to (Michelle) was clearly American, and was so wonderful and 'go the extra mile'-like that if I could have sent her a box of choccies I would have. Then, she sent me a PERSONAL email to say she'd checked and my replacement machine had been sent, and the returns number, and the tracking number, and the date it was going to arrive, and the contact details for TNT in case they didn't contact me to pick up the dead one.
I was so pleased. I backed up the old machine and happily sat and waited (well, I went to Ireland). The new one was delivered last Monday, exactly a week after I first called to say 'wtf?!' Good service? Yes. I should think so.
Except for one thing - they needn't have bothered. One tiny bit of communication between support teams would have told them that there was a firmware update in the works being rushed out to solve the problem - and one day after I received my replacement MBP, what did I get? The firmware update. Which fixed EVERYONE else who'd been told to wait. LOL.
I found this hilarious, so so so hilarious. Oh well! At least now I have a newer machine which is still virgin, and is so so wonderful. :D And has no ugly PAT tested stickers on the power cables (thanks, stupid UK law).
So now I've had this one for just over a week and I still love it, although I was in my brother-in-law-to-be's house over the weekend, and he (being married to an Apple Sales Senior Account Manager) has ten million Macs in his house (his 6 year-old son has an iBook G4, for christ's sake, but it was an obsolete one!), and he'd just gotten himself a brand new 13" Macbook. It was SO cute, like a baby one of my big monster, and I wanted it sooooo bad. I'm so sad, really. I just liked how portable it was, but I really, really appreciate the screen on this baby, so I think I'll be sticking with this one. For a number of YEARS.
My divinely gorgeous piece of kit was ill! So ill, in fact, that it is now sitting being looked at in Apple, and I have a brand new one. So. What happened, I hear you ask?
God only knows what the actual issue was, because no amount of testing on the Mac support forums could work it out, but it was something to do with the GPU firmware. It was causing lots of vertical purple lines on the screen.
Here is part of my desktop: http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7267/img6409x.jpg
Here's the whole desktop normally: http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2628/img6412r.jpg
How horrific! So, obv, first thing I did was Google it, and discovered I wasn't alone (I had somehow missed a post on Engadget about it which I got through Mail, dunno how I missed that one!) - there were a ton of people having the same problem, which they attributed to the NVIDIA 9600M GPU. Now, I had never used the 9600M GPU - only the 9400, because I was all for the better battery life, and figured that for what I use this beastie for, I probably wouldn't need it for a while (which begs the question why I have this thing in the first place, but how and soever). I put in my tuppence worth. I rang up Apple, but had a feeling it wasn't going to be something they could solve over the phone, and boy was I vindicated when the person on the phone asked me to remove my battery.
I lol'd. Lots. Why? You would too, if you'd spent the better part of three days on a train testing the battery life of the new, shiny, non-removable battery, subject of scorn on tech blogs who like hotswapping over actual decent battery life. (there's a video and everything, at http://www.apple.com/uk/macbookpro/)
So. I was NOT amused, and told the guy on the phone, rather snootily as I felt like I was dealing with a complete idiot at this point, that I could not remove the battery, as it was the new 17" MBP with non-removable battery. He was confused. He put me on hold. He went to speak to a Tier 2 support person (I later found out the Tier 2s all work out of Cork and France, how cool is that). He came back to me and told me I would have to go to my nearest Apple store as they could do nowt for me on the phone. I was cross, as the nearest Apple store is in Liverpool. He booked me an appointment. I went to the Apple store and met the lovely James.
The lovely James changed my world - he was a smart, geeky, funny little ginger who knew his stuff. He asked me what was wrong. I opened up my MBP, and he excitedly went 'oh, the new 17"!' I turned it to him and said 'you tell me', at which point he recoiled. He asked if it was a custom configuration from the online store. I said yes. He then started to apologise in an embarassed way for what the Tier 1 I spoke to said, because (as he said) they couldn't replace it in store - it had to be shipped out and customised. I didn't mind too much as he was so nice. I could have taken him home to my Mum, he was so sweet. He showed me many things. I lol'd when he asked me what the FCC of my machine was - he meant the full charge capacity (which means my battery has many millions of powers), I thought he meant the serial code of the certification from the Federal Communications Commission. Too much Engadget. Sigh. The online store peeps emailed him a form I had to fill in. I did so. He emailed it back to them after I went home.
Two days later I'd heard nothing from the online store, so I called them and said 'OI!', to be told that they'd received my email back (via James), and would now process my return but I had to wait for their supervisor to ok it because I wanted it before I had to send back the old one. I said I didn't mind if that was the case :P The girl I spoke to (Michelle) was clearly American, and was so wonderful and 'go the extra mile'-like that if I could have sent her a box of choccies I would have. Then, she sent me a PERSONAL email to say she'd checked and my replacement machine had been sent, and the returns number, and the tracking number, and the date it was going to arrive, and the contact details for TNT in case they didn't contact me to pick up the dead one.
I was so pleased. I backed up the old machine and happily sat and waited (well, I went to Ireland). The new one was delivered last Monday, exactly a week after I first called to say 'wtf?!' Good service? Yes. I should think so.
Except for one thing - they needn't have bothered. One tiny bit of communication between support teams would have told them that there was a firmware update in the works being rushed out to solve the problem - and one day after I received my replacement MBP, what did I get? The firmware update. Which fixed EVERYONE else who'd been told to wait. LOL.
I found this hilarious, so so so hilarious. Oh well! At least now I have a newer machine which is still virgin, and is so so wonderful. :D And has no ugly PAT tested stickers on the power cables (thanks, stupid UK law).
So now I've had this one for just over a week and I still love it, although I was in my brother-in-law-to-be's house over the weekend, and he (being married to an Apple Sales Senior Account Manager) has ten million Macs in his house (his 6 year-old son has an iBook G4, for christ's sake, but it was an obsolete one!), and he'd just gotten himself a brand new 13" Macbook. It was SO cute, like a baby one of my big monster, and I wanted it sooooo bad. I'm so sad, really. I just liked how portable it was, but I really, really appreciate the screen on this baby, so I think I'll be sticking with this one. For a number of YEARS.
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Ooh, another MBP!
How marvellous. I've finally seen another human being sporting the same MBP as me, and guess what? They happened to have the glossy screen.
Take THAT, Engadget and all of your goddamn whining about the anti-glare screen. The rest of us actually like how gorgeous things appear behind a glass screen, you smarmy idiots.
I've always loved Engadget, seriously, they're great. But come ON. The amount of whining and complaining that they did when Apple redid the screens on the MB and MBP line was just unbelievable.
A failed freight train! Apparently a failed freight train blocked the line between Warrington and Crewe, but they said it was a signal failure when we were at the station, which just goes to show something I've long suspected, and that is that the 'signal failure' is just a coverall story they spin as people know what it means and can't do anything about it.
Well, I think that Network Rail should invest in some new fucking signals because I have had it with them failing. The fucking bastards.
Take THAT, Engadget and all of your goddamn whining about the anti-glare screen. The rest of us actually like how gorgeous things appear behind a glass screen, you smarmy idiots.
I've always loved Engadget, seriously, they're great. But come ON. The amount of whining and complaining that they did when Apple redid the screens on the MB and MBP line was just unbelievable.
A failed freight train! Apparently a failed freight train blocked the line between Warrington and Crewe, but they said it was a signal failure when we were at the station, which just goes to show something I've long suspected, and that is that the 'signal failure' is just a coverall story they spin as people know what it means and can't do anything about it.
Well, I think that Network Rail should invest in some new fucking signals because I have had it with them failing. The fucking bastards.
Network Rail!
I just got on a train from Morecambe to go (eventually) to West Drayton, which goes Morecambe, Lancaster, London Euston, tube to London Paddington, West Drayton. It's a four hour journey, sigh. But not the end of the world. The service from Morecambe to Lancaster is a little local service that goes from Morecambe to Lancaster, stopping at Bare Lane on the way. It's £1.80 for a single. The train station is very bizarre in that it only opens at seemingly random times across the day, and the ticket price from Morecambe is the same as from Lancaster (no idea why!), but here's the kicker - there's no Fastticket machine in Morecambe. Which is utterly and completely backwards as far as I'm concerned, really. Normally it's not a problem - I get my ticket online, print off my confirmation email to show them I've purchased a ticket from Morecambe, and they let me off with that. Which is fine, works ok for me. Once, a man did warn that my confirmation email wasn't technically valid, but they normally let me off!
This morning was different though. This morning I got on the train having forgotten to print off my confirmation email, which was stupid. Prepared to buy a ticket, I explained my case to the ticket inspector, who told me that my email confirmation wouldn't have been valid anyway. She cited that people do the same from Grange Over Sands, which is a £9 fare (!!), and that loses them revenue when they purchase their ticket online and pick up their ticket in Lancaster. Her next line should go down in history.
"We're losing revenue."
Well, that just did it for me, really. I managed to control myself, thankfully, but that just really made me feel like I was living in lalaland, because it means one of two things: either a) Northern Rail really aren't part of the central train booking network, which is just stupid, or b) this woman had the worst grasp of how the train revenue and booking systems work in the UK, and she WORKS for it, or c) both a) and b), which is also scary, and implies that Northern Rail are money-grabbing bastards and want to sting you when you've already bought a ticket online because they don't make enough from the online central booking system. As it happens, she told me she'd let me off, but 'in future' I should buy my ticket from Lancaster instead of from Morecambe, and pay extra for the ticket from Morecambe. Which is just daft, really.
THEN I got to Lancaster, and went to pick up my ticket from the Fastticket machine. Despite having done this journey lots, just once before I've purchased my ticket online and when I got to picking it up, what came out was a ticket that said Not London on it. Which is just annoying. This time I checked it REALLY carefully, and made sure that it displayed the tube journey. So I was most irritated when what came out had the dreaded words on it - Not London. Well, I marched up to the ticket office and got an excess (which I was charged 2.20 for, seemingly random!!)
Drives me mad! I am travel cursed. I've been afflicted with delays, cancellations... everything. It doesn't matter what it is, I'll get afflicted by it. Which is funny because I have massive faith in the train system in the UK, despite being continually damaged by it! In this case I am cursed with what I like to call the Lynch curse. I have an aunt (who is a Lynch) who, despite working for an airline and being the person I know in the world that travels the most, she still manages to get something happen to her every time. They've broken her guitars. They've lost her luggage. They've delayed her. They've cancelled on her. They've stranded her.
And yet she still goes somewhere fancy and foreign at least once a month (or maybe less - but it seems like that much! Which is cool). So maybe part of the curse is still having faith in the system. Hmmm. At least she's never cross with the booking system, but then, she did work on the booking system design team!!
This morning was different though. This morning I got on the train having forgotten to print off my confirmation email, which was stupid. Prepared to buy a ticket, I explained my case to the ticket inspector, who told me that my email confirmation wouldn't have been valid anyway. She cited that people do the same from Grange Over Sands, which is a £9 fare (!!), and that loses them revenue when they purchase their ticket online and pick up their ticket in Lancaster. Her next line should go down in history.
"We're losing revenue."
Well, that just did it for me, really. I managed to control myself, thankfully, but that just really made me feel like I was living in lalaland, because it means one of two things: either a) Northern Rail really aren't part of the central train booking network, which is just stupid, or b) this woman had the worst grasp of how the train revenue and booking systems work in the UK, and she WORKS for it, or c) both a) and b), which is also scary, and implies that Northern Rail are money-grabbing bastards and want to sting you when you've already bought a ticket online because they don't make enough from the online central booking system. As it happens, she told me she'd let me off, but 'in future' I should buy my ticket from Lancaster instead of from Morecambe, and pay extra for the ticket from Morecambe. Which is just daft, really.
THEN I got to Lancaster, and went to pick up my ticket from the Fastticket machine. Despite having done this journey lots, just once before I've purchased my ticket online and when I got to picking it up, what came out was a ticket that said Not London on it. Which is just annoying. This time I checked it REALLY carefully, and made sure that it displayed the tube journey. So I was most irritated when what came out had the dreaded words on it - Not London. Well, I marched up to the ticket office and got an excess (which I was charged 2.20 for, seemingly random!!)
Drives me mad! I am travel cursed. I've been afflicted with delays, cancellations... everything. It doesn't matter what it is, I'll get afflicted by it. Which is funny because I have massive faith in the train system in the UK, despite being continually damaged by it! In this case I am cursed with what I like to call the Lynch curse. I have an aunt (who is a Lynch) who, despite working for an airline and being the person I know in the world that travels the most, she still manages to get something happen to her every time. They've broken her guitars. They've lost her luggage. They've delayed her. They've cancelled on her. They've stranded her.
And yet she still goes somewhere fancy and foreign at least once a month (or maybe less - but it seems like that much! Which is cool). So maybe part of the curse is still having faith in the system. Hmmm. At least she's never cross with the booking system, but then, she did work on the booking system design team!!
This is late
She works hard for the money, so hard for it honey...
It's been an entertaining day so far. It's now 1pm and I've had a chicken kebab which was mega. Watched some vids. Worked out Mail Merge in Pages (it is SO easy once you work out the first two steps - which is Inspector>Info). I still love my Macbook Pro. It is wonderful. Been printing off envelopes that I've mail merged (which is far more fun that printing labels, and looks neater). About to fold up 100 envelopes and send them out. Then have to spend the next two weeks calling up stores. Sigh. Not happy - am rubbish on outgoings, but we'll see.
FINALLY got the PES store orders done, AND I got a prize sent out that's been bugging me for a while. Life is good. I am going to be poor this month though - expenses taking ages to pay!
Right, so, after a long day's work, I'm back on the train gang, and of course, I'm playing battery game. It was reading at 6:22, but then I turned the brightness to nothing and dimmed the keyboard and it climbed to 8:44, and now it's saying 9:29, which is so blindingly amazing it doesn't actually bear thinking about, really. It's not so dim I can't read it. I'll give it a minute and see if I can screenshot it again, but I've got to be quick. Thing is, I'm using absolutely nothing to get that kind of usage - WI-Fi is off, drive not being used... oh, 9:22. Going down. Best use screenshot now. Be fast!!!
Wasn't fast enough. Went to 8:20 too quickly. Daft thing. It's like rare birdspotting. The Lesser-Shotted Battery Life. Lol.
DAMN 9:29 again. Ok, let's go again. GAH. Missed it again. This is so funny! Ok, I give up. I've seen it at tiny use. It does mean that the trackpad must use a mental amount of power 'cos it spikes the usage whenever I try to do it. Just sitting on the keyboard typing into Evernote uses so little power it's unbelievable.
Engadget got their 17" Pro today to unbox and review. Theirs was the absolute max version - kitted out with the massive 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM and of course the anti-glare screen. I am glad I didn't get the anti-glare screen - it's just the same screen as the previous iterations. Don't like it. Don't really care that I can kinda see my fingers in the screen while I'm typing, love it anyway. Will wait to see what they say about the screen. Hope they'll be pleased by the battery life - I am so far. Although less happy that I've used up 2 cycles so far out of the guaranteed 1,000, and I haven't even let it get below 50% yet. Also that it came with only 98% health. Although some people who got theirs that I read already had 3 cycles out of it. Thanks, iStat Pro :D
I made a tactical seating error - I'm in the same kind of place I was this morning, being crushed by the stupid overly-large coffeecup thing. Why did First Great Western think a triangular table was a good idea? Silly FGW. I could have sat in a corner seat but I thought then I couldn't make observations on the rest of the people in the carriage. Boooourns! Although if my Macbook was a littler one, it would be a LOT easier. Lol.
Just pulled out of Slough, train very crowded now. Well, I'd be squeezing in to get out Slough if I worked there too. Lol.
Mailbox! Open Mailbox!
Not a fan of the sweatmarks that pool under where my palms rest. Grrr.
The two people opposite me are reading the Lovely Bones (read by the girl with the fantastic eyeliner) and a book whose spine I can't see 'cos he's to my right and has only just start the book, but the back has an American flag and proclaims loudly that it's a Pulitzer prize-winning booke (read by the slightly good-looking bloke). Oh, Pulitzer has been put away. Wonder if he caught me looking at him. Meh, so waht.
Can't get into comfy position. Will remember NEVER to sit in this position when want to type again!!!! Hopefully train will emptty towards Oxford and will be able to sptead out.
Wonder if could write Bridget JOnes-style book involving man sat in corner of train blogging on his commute to work. Might consider it. Obv would have some girl comment on it and have their romance grow. That would be such a good idea! OMFG! What a good idea. Might do that! Might start it now. Will start idea and write for fifteen mins. Must not mention Macbook.
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Well, didn't quite mention it. Is now forty minutes later. Enjoyed it so much couldn't stop. Got to write morning and evening story every day, but for first few weeks will put both up as one post every evening. Will also register several false accounts to make comments with, as part of storyline. Very proud of self.
There was a bloke with a black Macbook looking like me - comfy and groovy, not a ThinkPadMan. Was happy about that. Felt less left out of scary ThinkPad group. Integrated into story. Very proud. Caught Macbook man looking at my Macbook with face of jealousy. Muahahahaha. YAY! FIRST!
She works hard for the money... too hard for it honey! Just about to get home so will turn off Macbook now. On way back to Morecambe tonight so probably won't post this until get home and have time. Until next time!
It's been an entertaining day so far. It's now 1pm and I've had a chicken kebab which was mega. Watched some vids. Worked out Mail Merge in Pages (it is SO easy once you work out the first two steps - which is Inspector>Info). I still love my Macbook Pro. It is wonderful. Been printing off envelopes that I've mail merged (which is far more fun that printing labels, and looks neater). About to fold up 100 envelopes and send them out. Then have to spend the next two weeks calling up stores. Sigh. Not happy - am rubbish on outgoings, but we'll see.
FINALLY got the PES store orders done, AND I got a prize sent out that's been bugging me for a while. Life is good. I am going to be poor this month though - expenses taking ages to pay!
Right, so, after a long day's work, I'm back on the train gang, and of course, I'm playing battery game. It was reading at 6:22, but then I turned the brightness to nothing and dimmed the keyboard and it climbed to 8:44, and now it's saying 9:29, which is so blindingly amazing it doesn't actually bear thinking about, really. It's not so dim I can't read it. I'll give it a minute and see if I can screenshot it again, but I've got to be quick. Thing is, I'm using absolutely nothing to get that kind of usage - WI-Fi is off, drive not being used... oh, 9:22. Going down. Best use screenshot now. Be fast!!!
Wasn't fast enough. Went to 8:20 too quickly. Daft thing. It's like rare birdspotting. The Lesser-Shotted Battery Life. Lol.
DAMN 9:29 again. Ok, let's go again. GAH. Missed it again. This is so funny! Ok, I give up. I've seen it at tiny use. It does mean that the trackpad must use a mental amount of power 'cos it spikes the usage whenever I try to do it. Just sitting on the keyboard typing into Evernote uses so little power it's unbelievable.
Engadget got their 17" Pro today to unbox and review. Theirs was the absolute max version - kitted out with the massive 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM and of course the anti-glare screen. I am glad I didn't get the anti-glare screen - it's just the same screen as the previous iterations. Don't like it. Don't really care that I can kinda see my fingers in the screen while I'm typing, love it anyway. Will wait to see what they say about the screen. Hope they'll be pleased by the battery life - I am so far. Although less happy that I've used up 2 cycles so far out of the guaranteed 1,000, and I haven't even let it get below 50% yet. Also that it came with only 98% health. Although some people who got theirs that I read already had 3 cycles out of it. Thanks, iStat Pro :D
I made a tactical seating error - I'm in the same kind of place I was this morning, being crushed by the stupid overly-large coffeecup thing. Why did First Great Western think a triangular table was a good idea? Silly FGW. I could have sat in a corner seat but I thought then I couldn't make observations on the rest of the people in the carriage. Boooourns! Although if my Macbook was a littler one, it would be a LOT easier. Lol.
Just pulled out of Slough, train very crowded now. Well, I'd be squeezing in to get out Slough if I worked there too. Lol.
Mailbox! Open Mailbox!
Not a fan of the sweatmarks that pool under where my palms rest. Grrr.
The two people opposite me are reading the Lovely Bones (read by the girl with the fantastic eyeliner) and a book whose spine I can't see 'cos he's to my right and has only just start the book, but the back has an American flag and proclaims loudly that it's a Pulitzer prize-winning booke (read by the slightly good-looking bloke). Oh, Pulitzer has been put away. Wonder if he caught me looking at him. Meh, so waht.
Can't get into comfy position. Will remember NEVER to sit in this position when want to type again!!!! Hopefully train will emptty towards Oxford and will be able to sptead out.
Wonder if could write Bridget JOnes-style book involving man sat in corner of train blogging on his commute to work. Might consider it. Obv would have some girl comment on it and have their romance grow. That would be such a good idea! OMFG! What a good idea. Might do that! Might start it now. Will start idea and write for fifteen mins. Must not mention Macbook.
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Well, didn't quite mention it. Is now forty minutes later. Enjoyed it so much couldn't stop. Got to write morning and evening story every day, but for first few weeks will put both up as one post every evening. Will also register several false accounts to make comments with, as part of storyline. Very proud of self.
There was a bloke with a black Macbook looking like me - comfy and groovy, not a ThinkPadMan. Was happy about that. Felt less left out of scary ThinkPad group. Integrated into story. Very proud. Caught Macbook man looking at my Macbook with face of jealousy. Muahahahaha. YAY! FIRST!
She works hard for the money... too hard for it honey! Just about to get home so will turn off Macbook now. On way back to Morecambe tonight so probably won't post this until get home and have time. Until next time!
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