tuesday april 10, 2007
I have this goal to write up a nice little list of utilities and apps for Mac OS X people who have recently migrated from Windows or who plan to in the near future. I can tell you that my conversion didn't come easy as I had made my first failed attempt back in September and then didn't try again until this March, the second try being successful. I think that the second time around I had more information about "replacement" utlities that I was comfortable working with along with more of a desire to get off of Windows.
Either way, I am going to try to get something together here soon and hopefully provide others with the resources they need to better their lives. I will tell you this much, once I stabalized on my Mac I was shocked at how fast, easy and productive life could be.
Okay, enough evangelism... tonight I am going with Jason to meet up with EJ from Iron & Wine to talk about redoing their website.
saturday april 7, 2007
Our afternoon in Ballard was nice and quiet, we walked down to the boat locks and watched as they raised some boats to pass from one body to the next. Then we wandered back into the neighborhood center, had some lunch and returned to Queen Anne.
On Tuesday we managed to make our Amtrak train, the Coast Starlight 11 on time on a clear, sunny morning. As we wiggled along the I-5 corridor, we made several stops in small and large towns like Centralia and Portland before climbing into the Cascade pass, eventually finding our way into California and then closer to the bay through towns like Marinez and Pinole. It was odd to travel so far through so much rural landscape and and then end the trip by passing by a massive trash pile in PInole, a slight signature of mankind's waste sprinkled on the outskirts of the bay. I may have to go to Los Angeles at the end of the month and I am even considering the second leg of the Coast Starlight when doing so.
Anyway, we're back home now and all is normal in SF. Today I am going to contniue to restore the old Schwinn that Ferris gave me and maybe do some leftover site work for friends.
Amtrak Coast Starlight
sunday april 1, 2007
Wha-wha-what the shit is this? I think it would be fantastic if folks had routers strung from their toilets across the land. Glad to see Google can still have a sense of humor.
Crow was wondeful last night with a suprise twist desert that consisted of Guinness ice cream with caramel and brownies that came with a small shot of Jameson to pour over top and eat (I just drank the Jameson though, bad habit) was the "over the top" aspect that we hope for when dining there. For some reason I feel like I have had Guinness ice cream before, but never quite like that.
Today is somewhat gray and cold up here, but I think we are going to make our way over to the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard shortly to wander around, grab some lunch and maybe even see a movie.
