Several months ago i gave in and bought myself a MacBook Pro (the top 15″ model).
I love it!
Its far from perfect but it’s just more fun to use.
On friday i went to the Mac Live Expo and Tate Modern and Borough Market.
Then on the way home i got Leopard (new MacOS X) which has some nice touches but a few bugs – my dock dies and i have to reboot to get it back 
Its all fun though!
I bought my first camera a few weeks ago – a cannon (IXUS 850IS) and i am loving it!
I’ve created a photo gallery, based on the brilliant Gallery2 and the Ajaxian Theme – browse my albums from here: digial.co.uk/photos.
I’ve also join DeviantArt too (been going there for years but never created an account till today), and submitted my first which can be found here
There’s lots of huge sized guitars on show at The Scoop near work in London. Here are pics of my favourite ones.
Much more can be found here
Today is my birthday, I’m 26 years old!
Went for a Thai meal at work yesterday lunch time – where these pics come from.
Here’s funny anim created from the pic: jeeves.swf
I love Bit Torrent. The Shield series 6 has just started and won’t be shown over here (UK) for ages – channel Five showed the last series – haven’t got a clue when they will show this one.
But the great thing is even the US don’t get to watch it first – France TV is showing two episodes a week and started the same time as the US, and Bit Torrent / the Internet being so great there is someone recording it – cutting out the ads and posting it up on bit torrent straight after … Continue Reading
A lot has been said about this but it is crazy – they are charging 190% more for Adobe CS3 in the UK over the US proce.
They say its because it costs more to support the product over here but thats just over the top pricing.
It costs the same price to buy a ticket to fly to America and buy the product over there than it does to buy CS3 here! See this post for more about this.
Gameloft’s Connect application is a great idea implemented well. Basically it allows you to buy Gameloft’s mobile (Java – J2ME) games and installed them straight to the phone via the data cable.
Works well – although sometimes i find gameseither dont install or remove themselves when the cable is disconnected, but Gameloft email support re-allocated the game for me to install again which was nice of them.
Shame they don’t allow other game developers to sell their games through the same app.
Also it can be slow loading pages – but hopefully that will improve.
The good thing is that … Continue Reading
Went to Wales for the first sunny bank holiday of the year, with work colleagues Silvia and Andrew. We are all currently single so we called it a Singles Road Trip!
Had great fun, saw some dinosaurs, caves and farm animals – all at one place! It was called Dan-yr-Ogof.
Went up some mountains to look through the valley and at Black Mountain.
Also went to Caldicot Castle – though Silvia was not impressed with.
See lots of photos here at my Picasa Album
The first night we were at Oxwich Bay. I made the best fire here, … Continue Reading
Went to Barcelona for a long weekend break (12/01/07 – 16/01/07) to celebrate Sarah reaching 30!
It was really amazing and inspirational – the Gaudi’s buildings were like nothing I’ve seen!
Check him and them out on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Guell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Familia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Batll%C3%B3
Check out my first Flickr album here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87809769@N00/sets/72157594484604506/show/
Wasn’t that impressed with Flickr so created a Picasa album too: here
I have now got the travelling bug and hope to travel the world in the near future!
In the end this was very easy, with help from a couple of sites as usual.
Heres how:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and add:
# James Cameron’s PPTP GUI packaging
deb http://quozl.netrek.org/pptp/pptpconfig ./
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pptpconfig
Saying Yes / Ok to authentication warning etc.
gksudo pptpconfig
And then enter vpn server details, click routing and select routing type
And then click connect!
Thats it!
Well wasn’t for me as i tried to be clever and do it the manual way because i forgot about sudo and
thought i couldn’t edit /etc/apt/sources.list and so couldn’t get pptpconfig.
But all good now
Pages used:
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-ubuntu.phtml
And while trying to do it manually:
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/routing.phtml#all-to-tunnel
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml#649
