psyche

So, Macworld. Well, I got home at 17:00-ish, booted up, headed over to www.MacRumorsLive.com and watched in a strange throwback to text-based web as the thing unfolded. The iPhone, which is called that despite patent-related speculation etc., looks pretty good - it’s polished as a product (the tilt and ear sensor, oh my goodness) and looks like it will sell like Hell. It runs some sort of mini Mac OS X, I think. That’s awesome, seriously. Apple TV looks pretty good too - I haven’t researched it properly yet but it seems promising. To be honest I was hoping for some sort of Leopard announcement, especially with Vista looming. It’d better be good. Seriously. I’m worried. That said, with the iPhone Apple have proved that they can still make a really awesome product. Probably imperfect, but so loaded in terms of features that people really want that it captures your consumerist soul. I think Leopard will be good. I hope they fix the f…. um, fix the Finder.

My personal life seems boring in comparison (lolz just kidding I know it’s the most exciting thing ever!!11one). I took Psyche offline - it began to suffer after I started what was admittedly a foolhardy and audacious project to change the Science page into a JavaScript-fest of buttons and hidden content. It failed, mainly on account of the way Firefox interprets the tag, I think. Something to do with “inline content”. Anyway, it’s on hiatus. When I get time I will actually work on it - I really want to do it justice as a project.

I’m trying to bolster my computing versatility - I’m almost certainly going to do Computing for A-level - and so I’m installing Linux. Yes. I downloaded Azureus (expecting a nostalgic throwback to when Napster was legal - my God - but instead receiving a pleasantly Aqua package of awesomeness) and downloaded a bunch of Yellow Dog Linux torrents. Turns out 75% of them were unnecessary (lol) so I burned the .iso to a CD with Disk Utility and then realised I had to partition my 80GB internal hard drive. Thus, I am currently backing up all my Mac OS X files (the whole HD) onto my external HP HD (advertised as 250GB, has about ~230GB usable) and am planning to have OS X and YD on the internal and keep most non-app files on the external, as well as backups.

Wish me luck.

Pax