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but sometimes things don’t go exactly to plan … from [ Joel on Software ]

Q: How many Apple Newton users does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Foux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup.

I’m giving my personal web site a long overdue makeover (don’t rush to look at it, there’s a lot to do yet, and it’s not uploaded). But it’s been such a lovely, nostalgic journey … I’ve re-read the pages about our wedding, and our honeymoon (back in May/June 1999), and it brought back such wonderful memories – when we were in New England then, we promised ourselves we’d go back in five years, and that’s only just over a year away! And we’re still together, and happy, which will confound the critics :)

interestingly, when I first wrote the honeymoon trip page, there wasn’t that much relevant stuff on the web – now, having checked again today, I’ve found loads of links to put in; a real example of just how much is out there on that Internet thing now.

in other news, the cats have had a good day. I got up this morning to find cat crap in the bathroom, and a dead mouse by the kitchen door. And when perlmonger and I returned from Ikeal (don’t ask), the golden chaps were roaming up and down the hall in a very interested manner. And the almost inevitable consequence was discovered in the kitchen an hour or so later – a dead mouse. In several pieces [sigh]. I’m afraid I let Pete deal with it (I’m just a gurlie), but there was, apparently, a head, and a tail, and no bits in between apart from some entrails. Lovely ….

we have a back bedroom again. Last night, perlmonger and I cleared out all the boxes and other assorted crap from the little bedroom, and made enough space for a proper midi setup at last – Yahama PSR-730 <-> Edirol UA-20 <-> iMac. I nipped down to Swift Music yesterday afternoon to buy a couple of longer midi cables, where I had a small tussle with the salesman, who seemed to think he needed my name and address to purchase £8.98’s worth of cable (clue: he didn’t), and we got it all set up and working last night.

downloaded a trial copy of Intuem, and discovered just how steep a learning curve I have ahead of me :)

what with that, and the fabby new Canon G3 camera that perlmonger bought me last weekend, I’m in severe danger of getting a life!

with thanks to drpete for the link … it transpires that I am a puma. I rather like that idea.

What Is Your Animal Personality?
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I appear to have bought a dual G4 Mac on eBay – getting on for £5k’s worth (AFAICT) for the princely sum of two grand.

[ this ] bit of Flash is really, really nice …