psyche

I just saw it - it was alright! It couldn’t decide whether it was a sentimental film or a comedy and thus didn’t really deliver enough material to fit into either category, but it had good moments - some characters, like the miniature Octavius, were awesome. It was alright; I liked it… worth seeing again? Maybe.

Pax

Lo, Psyche is revised and updated!

There have been many revisions of my “website”, some involving beautiful pages with bloated code brought forth from iWeb and others being hand-coded but bound to certain styles that tired quickly. However, Psyche is now past the “if this gets any worse I’m deleting it” stage. I actually like it now. I’ve made more aesthetic changes and such and am preparing for an overhaul of Science - I hope to trim it and condense the ideas worth keeping into things less obscured by rhetoric and thus more clear, since my primary objective here is propagation, not obfuscation. I also added a neat Glider mutation on the front, teehee!

Other news from my small corner of the web: I re-made the article “Michael_Lewin_(guitarist)” and started “Matthias_Wagner” - with his help - on Wikipedia, and I’m hoping that with the advent of Leopard I can start compulsively editing Apple-related articles once again. I’ve started going to Virgin Active again (lol) and will be fencing again soon - which will be tough as most of my muscles have atrophied. Oh well, these things happen. I was meant to see “Night at the Museum” today but we had some sort of retarded minor gas leak so we had to wait for the guy, became late etc. so I missed it but I’ll see it tomorrow and report back. I want it to be funny, I really do, but I’m afraid it won’t be… urgh. We’ll see.

Of course I must comment on the issue of Saddam Hussein’s execution. Whether the execution was real or not (didn’t see the transition from living to dead, could’ve been a body double etc.), I hope that Amnesty and other people who are in the right in this case don’t let people forget that revenge as “justice” is not sustainable. For the record, neither is the Western lifestyle, but hey, nobody cares, right? Humanity is a cosmic joke.

Pax

So, the obligatory post-25th post. I hesitate to call it Christmas, as that was dubious from the start, what with its fusion into Pagan festivals and all. Anyway, I came out relatively unscathed, with a Logitech MX Revolution mouse, a 250GB HP external Hard Drive, a new Nokia 6131 and Command & Conquer: The First Decade - and yes, I preordered Tiberium Wars.

I updated Psyche - for the first time in a while - with some Tiberian Sun stuff and made some aesthetic changes to Science and some more significant (but still aesthetic) changes to About, so that’s all good. I’d like to pick up an Intel iMac and boot Vista in order to run Tiberium Wars, but I’ll see what rolls over at Macworld and check out Leopard before I finalise my choices. I need to get good at Yuri’s Revenge so I can challenge Elliot, damn it!

Anyway, you know the deal. Tiberian Sun is a beautiful game.

Logitech MX RevolutionFor the record, I’m on an old-ish 17″ PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.8. The installation was … well, non-existent - in a good way. I put the mouse into its power cradle and left it charging for a couple of hours after unpacking it. I downloaded the Logitech Control Center (there was no Mac software in the box) and wandered off somewhere… and then sauntered back and checked it out. I plugged the RF dongle into my USB port, slid the slider on the underside of the mouse to the “on” position, and voilà, the mouse was working! I hastened to System Preferences, wherein I increased the sensitivity, configured some options etc. although I might add that my global settings are almost the same as the default ones as they were well thought out. Basically, the mouse is perfect apart from the absence of a left-handed version, which means nothing to me but everything to, say, my brother and my dad. Anyway, the only oddity I encountered was in Jedi Academy (don’t laugh) when I found that switching weapons with the primary scroll wheel always caused me to suddenly look upward. So far I have no explanation - it’s probably something to do with the way I’ve configured the controls in JKA - but until I can eliminate this I’ll use the left/right tilt function of the wheel. Phew. Once you configure the speed you’d like the SmartShift wheel function (the scroll wheel basically goes into a frictionless spin when you spin it at a certain speed) it pretty much becomes a better and more convenient (and fun) version of page up/page down. The mouse is great - works well, was easy to set up, is easy to configure. Unfortunately there’s no left-handed version… hmm… that’s economics for you.
Nokia 6131
Once again, no Mac software or USB cable out of the box - shame on you, Nokia! However the phone is good. It’s not Series 60 and therefore all my crap from my old 6260 is, well, non-transferable. It also takes a microSD card (which I haven’t got yet) - and I thought miniSD cards (which the 6260 took) were small! The font for the clock thing on the outside is really bad. Anyway, this is progress towards a really good Nokia clamshell, but until then, looks like Motorola have that market under control. How’s that KRZR thing doing?

Pax