sammi needham : cogitate

Arrrr me an me hearties partook in talk like a pirate day festivities today. I smashed the Pinata, so luckily i didn’t have to walk the plank.

point of impact

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Progress report:

The old front of the house looked like this…

the inside of that fence looked like this…

now with a new fence and garden beds gone, it looks like this…

the plan is to clean the bricks, and re-lay them as pavers so that it’s one nice flat surface inside the fence.

but that will have to wait until the drainage issue is fixed up, you see upon cleaning out the front garden, it was observed that the drain pipe from the house just empties into the front garde, well, under the front of the house really, which might explain why the house has moved so much, it’s probably been doing it for 20 years or so.

So it will have to be connected to the (apparently non-existent) storm water drain. So that should be fun / time consuming / expensive. One step forward, 2 steps back.

With the announcement of movies available for purchase from the iTunes Music Store, and the release of some new iPods comes a new version of Apple’s Music Player, iTunes. It sports a new menu design which seems a bit more organised and looks quite nice, it also seems to be user-testing a few different UI changes that i’m assuming will be part of the new version of the Mac OS when it launches next year. It all looks very grey, so my guess is that after OS X had that bubbly translucent colourful look when it launched, with the imminent release of Windows Vista, Apple might be going in a different design direction in a attempt to immediattely date the look of the overdue upgrade to Windows. Funny.

Anyway, one good thing and one bad thing about the new iTunes…

Good.
The new iTunes now supports downloading multiple tracks at once from an purchases through the iTunes Music Store (ITMS). It looks like it downloads 3 at a time while the rest sit in a queue. I thought that was interesting as i hadn’t seen it documented anywhere else before.

Bad.
The ‘interactive booklets’ that you sometimes get with albums purchased through the ITMS now don’t work. I only noticed this when trying to look at the one that came with the most recent The Mars Volta album and it only playing a 5 seccond track of silence instead of opening any sort of interactive booklet. Thinking that it was proably just a dud with that particular release i didn’t care too much, although after a little bit more investigating, it seems that the booklet that came with Audioslave’s Revelations, that had previously worked fine, now does the ol’ 5 second shuffle. I’m assuming it’s more to do with the new version of Quicktime though rather than iTunes itself, as those booklets just seem to be quicktime movies with an interactive flash layer for theirr so-called ‘interaction’.

i got an awesome bruise as a result of the last footy game of the year for the st. kilda city saints against St. Pauls at the Peanut Farm. Check it.

During the coming days, te bruise travlelled the length of my arm until the whole arm, from my pit to my wrist was purple – then brown – then yellow – it was awesome, perfect fake tan replacement. Just get someone to smash into you and wait.