iTunes Insight

(shamelessly stolen from The Jim Manka-Taylor Project) Directions: Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrassing it is. How many songs: 1559 Sort by song title First song: Absolute Beginners – David Bowie Last song: 1984 – David Bowie Sort by time Shortest Song: Hello, MOM – Kyle Gabler Longest Song: These Dreams – Robbie Williams Sort by album First Song: Aladdin Sane – David Bowie Last Song: World …

Finally! A working Adobe CS3 install script!

After what seems like a year of aborted attempts, this week I’ve made a concerted effort to deploy Adobe CS3 Design Premium on our XP network. This morning, I was successful! There were several problems to overcome, including lack of MSIs, inability to “roll your own” MSI due to the Adobe Licencing Service throwing a wobbly if you do, inserting the serial number, forcing it to install on machines with under a gig of RAM, coping with the sheer size …

How lovely is the iPhone?

The answer, of course, is “very lovely indeed”. My previous phone was a T-Mobile Vario III, a replacement a year ago for my Vario II. To be honest, I’ve never really had a problem with it. Ok, so it didn’t really work well with my Mac (until I bought SyncMate, anyway), and sometimes it forgot to type double letters, but it was great for everything I wanted to use it for. Or so I thought. After using an iPhone for …

Flooding at work

There was just a little bit of thundering, lightning, and rain this afternoon. The Sky Gods were upset, it seemed. Lightning hit the building at least twice, frying the wireless network and killing my fax machine with magic blue fire. And it was wet. Oh, was it wet. The “puddles” had waves.

Underhand sales tactics

Update 20th February 2011: Despite complying with all of the requests from PDC, removing comments and so on, they’ve contacted me again and asked me to remove the post entirely. So with regret, I have done so. Sorry everyone – I suggest you take up your complaints directly with the company.