There’s a thread (currently) on the front page of slashdot entitled Why The RIAA Really Hates Downloads, which touches upon a subject I’ve talked about before. This subject is the recording industry, and their inability or unwillingness to embrace change, evolve, and ultimately survive. (more…)
Category: Tech stuff
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Reflecting upon the new mothership design
After having the new design up for a while, some of the more practical considerations of designing a site have come to the fore. When the new design was originally slated, the content of mothership was reasonably static, with only the forums and blog experiencing frequent change. However, due to encouragement from different quarters we recently decided to add more content to mothership, and this has brought some potential problems with it.
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Finally – the mothership site redesign is done
Whilst designing a web-site is one matter, designing – or worse still – redesigning – one’s is often a matter of pain and suffering. Because the customer is oneself, it’s easy to think that continual fiddling with it is ok. As parents will tell you – this is not ok! Just leave it alone.
Anyway, take a look and feel free to drop a line and let me know what you think.
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Amusing Quote of the Day – TelstraClear’s Dr Freeth
Regarding TelstraClear’s announcement about axing 100 jobs in NZ and moving some core activities to Australia:
“Dr Freeth says the changes will reduce TelstraClear’s cost base and should improve its efficiency. Because of Telstra’s scale, “they can do things much faster and much cheaper than we can”.
How on earth are we meant to take the piss when they do it so well themselves? Not fair!
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Toy Update – iMac.
On the morning Apple announced the 24″ ‘iMac I called Ubertec in Parnell and ordered one. Talia said they didn’t have a price at that time, which really was quite an irrelevant statement.
Having had the machine for a couple of months, I couldn’t be happier. It supports full 1080p High Definition, it’s stupidly fast, runs Windows (queue the ‘stupid’ word again) and it’s silent. It also avoids the ignominy of having Windows defile the machine by allowing Windows applications to run inside of OS X – without Windows.
One of the best things about it is Front Row. Plays music, movies, tv shows, photo slideshows etc to the monitor or tv or whatever using the included remote. Brilliant.
Couldn’t be happier 🙂
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Change is coming.
The mothership site is in desperate need of a facelift. The process has been put in motion, so watch this – err that – space. Now that is has been said, I’m sure I’ll be hassled incessantly until it’s done (by a certain two people, at least!)
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My gift to you.
For friends and family who do step into the light, feel the warmth, and choose a Mac – I’m offering free support. Happily. Without duress.
If you decide to buy a Mac, I’ll help you choose the right one, pay the right price, and help set it up. Of course, this will involve me sitting and watching for the 10 minutes it will take you to enter your details, and get on the internet. Any questions regarding software, hardware, and usage I’ll also gladly help with. No offers of daughters, sisters, caribbean holidays, cash bribes, or Wild Turkey necessary. Although I will accepts gifts of gratitude of the latter.
Comments are back on; any questions; ask.
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Late Christmas Pressies
Here. I was watching the announcements as they were made, and to see the new MacBook Pro (ugh – I hope the person who named it doesn’t have children – for their sake) and iMac appear was great. I’ve since resisted the urge to order one of each straight away – I’ll wait for the revision B. release, just in case something’s screwy with the first ones off the line.
Many people spend almost as much time working on their computer (or getting others to…) as they do working with their computer. With alternatives out there like Apples running Mac OS X, which look great, feel great, and just work, why would someone choose otherwise? The peace of mind about not having to worry about viruses, trojans, people trying to steal all the information from my computer, and knowing it’s not gradually going to run slower and slower, is a wonderful thing. Try one. You’ll love it.
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She keeps goin’ and goin’
It’s been err *checks last post date* almost a month now, and the only time I’ve had to restart the Mac was for the 10.4.2 system update, and when taking the machine to Hamilton, and Sarah’s. Apart from that, it hasn’t put a foot wrong.
Why didn’t I do this many moons earlier? Silly Windows masochists.