[Mac]hinations

I feel like a father. Years spent waiting for a Macintosh and the day finally arrived. The anticipation was killing me. It became worse considering that the beautiful can-do-no-wrong 24-inch machine arrived on the same day that I left for Cape Town. As much as it hurt me, I escorted her home, dropped her off in the studio and proceeded to pack my bag.

I had just enough time to go through the lovely set-up procedure, rip a Shins CD and sync my cellphone before taking my leave. I have to admit that most of the excitement I had for getting home had to do with this beast. It was so easy setting up dsl, importing contacts, creating a birthday calendar and configuring my email client. This was all done with the standard software.

Enough with the geekiness...
Fairest Cape volume II to follow soon.

On Flashing Lights and Wandering Eyes

I was horrified when I stumbled across the TokyoFlash website. I had been working on a system of representing time using as few LED's as possible in an intuitive way. The watches on TokyoFlash are so far more advanced than where I was when I found the site. So while I'm still networking in order to develop the system - first into a clock and then into a watch - I decided to get myself one for the meantime.

I was checking the my statistics expecting to see dismally low, or more accurately missing, visits to Divination. I'm surprised to see that there are quite a few regular and seemingly silent readers. Please indulge me. I'd like to find out about who you are if your system matches the following:

1. Firefox on Mac OSX in (Possibly) Johannesburg (I think I know who this is)
   
2. Opera on unknown OS in (Possibly) Randburg
3. Firefox on Windows XP in (Possibly) Johannesburg
4. Mozilla on unknown OS in California - Inktomi Corporation (I've noticed your visits since the beginning of Divination)

It's funny how the title of this post seems to describe my social life at the moment.

Unplanned Speculation

Thanks for the comment Slop. It really made me think. I was going to post this as a comment but it took on a life of it's own:

Slop said (re: my PSP):
wow. I want one. Although I wonder if it would survive apple coming out with a video iPod?

I decided on getting the Nano for precisely that reason, the Video enabled iPod. I was originally saving up for the 60Gig.

When the Nano was released I thought that it's a better option since I don't really enjoy randomly hearing tracks from my library. I'd rather have a small selection of songs that I feel like hearing and shuffle through them. My cousin bought the 30Gig iPod without the clickwheel and two weeks later, the 40Gig was released. So if I'm getting a big boy, it's gonna play video.

As for it being released tomorrow. I'd really like that except I'm sceptical. Why would they release it so close after the Nano? It just doesn't make sense to me. It'd be like Nintendo introducing the GBA and the DS in the same week.

Unless like you say Apple releases an online OS update for all colour iPods. But that'll mean another iTunes update within a month. Which now that I think about it, probably makes sense since v 5.0 was pretty lacklustre in it's new features so maybe the update to it would be some small trigger that enables all of the hidden video features already present.

Hmmm, come to think of it, I'm not so sure of anything right now. I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

My li'l Friend

This is a really late birthday gift. The screen had a dead pixel and I was expecting a bit of trouble when I went to exchange it. The Hi-Fi Corp. guys were very helpful and I exchanged it for a spanking new one.

The screen is incredible. Despite it's small size, it has higher-than-T.V. resolution . I'm using it as an MP3 player at the moment since my MiniDisk player coughed it's last portable-audio breath. Unfortunately I can only load 20 songs onto it at the moment but it's an excellent substitute until the iPod arrives.

Said Matthew to resounding sighs of "What a freak".