July 28, 2005

Two cents.

This is the beauty of the blogiverse. We are all who we want to be online. In my humble opinion, the world of blogs is for those of us who may have been otherwise completely overlooked in society, but were blessed with the gift of gab. Let's face it, if any of us out here had a life half as interesting as what we make it out to be, we wouldn't sit in front of a computer as much as we do. We're all looking for meaningless approval given by the masses of other geeks that are too weak to go out and live life the way that it should be lived.

Frankly, I embrace the geekdom. I love it. I can't imagine a world without digital cameras, flat panel monitors, MP3 players, comic books, 42, alternative rock, Gary Gygax, the interweb, alt.anything, Kung Fu movies, and last but not least, the girlies that love the smart boys.

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July 18, 2005

Welcome to Tiger!

It has been about 24 hours since I initially installed OSX Tiger. I chose the "Erase and Install" option since my computer had never had a clean install done on it. I purchased my iMac G5 several months ago, and let it import all of the files and settings from my Powermac G4, which I must say that I miss dearly. I digress. I do enjoy the 20" Screen on my iMac.

Since my iMac has been operating with a few years of "Digital Bloat," since I purchased it, I decided that during my upgrade to Tiger, I would do a clean install. My system is now running much leaner. I have read that to notice the true speed benefit, several days of use must be allowed. This is apparently due to the fact that time must be given for caches and other settings to take hold.

I spent a significant amount of time yesterday reinstalling all of my must-have pieces of software: Photoshop, Illustrator,InDesign, Firefox, Thunderbird, Easy Batch Photo, Ableton Live, Toast, Popcorn, Photo Rescue, iLife, and iWork. I absolutely LURVE the new version of Apple's Mail program, and have even been using Safari. Firefox is still my browser of choice, but the new Safari is actually very nice.

All of my apps appear to be running just as smoothly as they did under 10.3, which is much to my pleasure. I was anticipating some problems, and am happy to report none.

So, Macintosh (Smart) people, get the upgrade to Tiger, and enjoy!

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July 07, 2005

Imagine

There is nothing appropriate for me to write to describe the tragedy that occured in London. May God be with each and every one of us tonight.

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

Writen by: John Lennon
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