A quiet month..?

I was just about to write about how fast the month is going, and that I should be getting some feedback from Pixmania shortly about the Nexus One, when I remembered this was the month Steve Jobs passed away.

This was something I had been expecting for quite a while, so it wasn't a shock, but like many who had no first hand knowledge of him, one felt a certain natural sadness. There has been so much raking up of one's own memories on the various Mac podcasts that I gave up listening to many of them. Suffice it to say, that my first Mac was one of those weird little grey portables, the Classic I believe, next was the 2SE I used when starting my own business. That still exists down in my storeroom. It works, but I loaned the keyboard to my daughter, Susan, and its somewhere amongst their pile of belongings.

A number of years passed in my DIY PC overclocking phase, when I really wasted so much time with Gentoo with ID: Cintra. I learned a lot about Linux, which must have helped my brain develop some neurons, but it has pretty much faded away now. (use it or lose it!)

When Susan started her own design business using one of the 20" iMacs I was attracted by the style, and the fabulous screen resolution. I bought my own and just fell into the Mac way again so easily. :)

A while later I bought the first MB AIR and a year or two later a new 21.5" iMac, a really fast machine. It has been updated and backed up regularly since then, and is now at the latest LION version, as are all three Macs.

My network consists of an Airport Extreme with two Expresses used mainly with Airplay/Airfoil connected to the Sony stereo unit in the 'stue'.

Thats enough of my Mac history, other than to say that the urge to buy a new iMac, iPad, or iPhone 4S has to be constantly supressed ;)

72 + hours without internet

This might partly have been my own fault, as I called Telenor when I first noticed the problem on Wednesday lunchtime, asked them if this was a general problem in my area, to which I was given the answer yes, so I didn't 'log' a call! They should automatically log one in my opinion, because I ended up falling through the cracks, until I called and logged a problem when it was still down after a day and a half.. it still took another day and a half. It returned after pulling the power for 10 minutes or so, and powering up again. Big surprise when the Airport Extreme light turned green :)

My Nexus One saga continues

A couple of days ago I received confirmation from Pixmania both in France and Norway in response to my query to them. My defect Nexus One had been registered as received in France and was being forwarded to the 'Producer's Workshop'. I would hear from them again within 21-days.

This would clearly make future purchase of a mobile phone from Pixmania Norway an unwise decision..

Google+ at last

Yesterday evening I was surprised to find 'You+' in my Google tab line, so I quickly added the tech people I follow on Twitter to a 'Following' circle, added a Photography circle and started that by adding Trey Ratcliff and Peter to it.

This morning I cleaned up my Picasa Web a bit, and added a few more Pros to my Photo circle

This should be interesting.. :)

My tweet about Vaclav Smil

cinval cinval 

Via Chandran Nair's book 'Consumptionomics' I have discovered a previously unknown (to me) name Vaclav Smil. See an interview @ http://goo.gl/IUtiI

See also The man who's tutoring Bill Gates at http://goo.gl/OoIFF

Lumix LX5 Updated

This was the first time I had updated the LX5..

Instructions on the Lumix site were excellent, so it was simply a matter of reading them carefully, downloading the Mac version of the zip/bin file, copying the bin file to the root of a spare SDHC card, put the LX5 into 'p' mode, switch ON and press the blue > button, select Yes and away it went for no more than 30 seconds. 

The final instruction was to Format the card containing the bin file. This being a Spare, I had no problem with doing that.

Now the proud owner of a Version 2.0 LX5. All that remains to be done, is go through the update features one by one.

YES! At last on iOS

Read that Blogger was available for the iPhone just. Couldn't find it when searching for Blogger alone, but when I searched for Google it showed up in the list :)

Expect more entries from now on, as I find using the iPhone to be a pleasure together with the Apple Keyboard, left over from my llast iMac purchase..

My good old HTC Magic has been restored to service following return of the Nexus One to France because of the Lock Button defect :(

Its a great little war horse, which is perfect for trips to the local store and my shopping lists.