Hoodies

shareware

star collage

star collage, originally uploaded by Bella the Cat.

A Slice of My Heart

Yet More Butterflies

Take My Advice

...get a Mac.  If only for the recently released Pixelmator.  Software I actually deigned to pay for.

I Now Have...

A new Macbook complete with photobooth. That is where the tiresome pics of yours truly are coming from. The novelty will wear off soon. Now it is shiny, glossy and quite beautiful. Commodity fetishism reigns in these parts. The revolution can wait.

Mother was shocked that I bought a new computer. What would you like me to spend my money on mother: drugs, alcohol, junk food? The money I spent on my shiny new macbook is money I have because I never purchase those things. She fails to grasp the importance of a computer to my everyday life, to my health, to my general well-being. Sometimes when I am too afraid leave the house the computer it is my lifeline, my sole connection to the world. It is the same when I wake up in the middle of the night, terrified beyond reason, bathed in perspiration. The computer is the only thing that can stifle the babbling voices in my head. The only thing, sometimes, that can stop me from simply giving up. How can she fail to understand that?

Tristesse

Skitch

Software of the Week

A truly sumptuous piece of software has just been released by these people: http://www.pixelmator.com/

It is defined as 'Photoshop for the rest of us' (i.e. non-graphic designers who can't afford to shell out over a thousand pound for the real thing.)

Software of the Week...

Software of the Week...

Rapido suite comprising RapidoMap (self explanatory), RapidoSerial (an application designed to alert the user when apps are out of date), RapidoStart (dealt with this last week) and RapidoWrite, a program resembling Textexpander - once freeware, now shareware. Each of these programs is freeware and can be found here.

Software of the Week:

Rapidostart: an excellent way to manage all those pesky applications that aren't quite important enough to occupy space in your dock.

Ridiculing

Commodity Fetishism. Note to Apple Evangelists: Steve Jobs is not God. I know because Richard Dawkins told me. In fact, that's the title of his next book. And Bill Gates is not Satan. Get it?

A little online temper tantrum in response to some spoilt little brat who said that she would never date a shelf stacker:

I find it shallow. Shallow and thoroughly unpleasant. You are aware, I'm sure, that there are many reason that individuals may end up in the situation you describe. As it happens I have a friend who is, at this moment, stacking shelves. He developed schizophrenia in his mid-twenties. He has a first class degree from a rather prestigious university. Ask (deleted) or one of the other medics just how difficult it is to sustain a successful career and remain on a high dose of neuroleptics. You may well be academically brilliant but you need to work on acquiring an imagination and a capacity for empathy.

Oh, and how's this for the very epitome of the Karpman Drama Triangle: Victim/Perpetrator/Rescuer? Each playing their alloted roles. Balding middle-aged men on white horses, anyone? No, it doesn't appeal to me much either.

The blogger makes a good point about rampant, untamed typography.

Shopaholism Alert

Frivolous and self indulgent I know but I really don't think I'll be able to resist this one.

Picturesque

Picturesque, originally uploaded by Bella the Cat.

Software Of the Week:

http://colloquy.info/downloads.html

Am I becoming one of those Mac evangelists that used to irritate me so much? Just check out my blogroll! I am scaring myself. I am metamorphosing into something I don't recognise.

Am loving my Mac Mini now christened Minerva. (Original? Not.)

An Antidote to....

...Pottermania, from the ever acerbic Clive James.

And now for something absolutely delightful. This simply beautiful piece of software: Delicious Library should remind all of those Windows naysayers and drones why 'MacMania' is perfectly justifiable. And, if that isn't convincing enough, try this. Is MacEnvy setting in yet?