Technology

I place a curse upon you evil spammers! You are the scourge of the internet!

If you thought receiving spam was annoying, try having a spammer pretend that his or her spam is originating from your very own personal email address. Yes folks, it does happen, and it appears that it's happening to to me as we speak.

FOR THE RECORD, I DO NOT SEND SPAM, I AM NOT A SPAMMER, NOR WILL I TOLERATE SPAMMERS FORGING SPAM LISTING MY EMAIL AS THE SENDER!

I am feeling pretty irate -- as I do not want to be blacklisted, or forced to abandon my favourite email address.

Gah! That is my evening rant for tonight.

I just ran across the most romantic nerd cake I've ever seen.

If you don't get this cake, then you are not geeky enough yet!

It is generally accepted that eating at your computer is a really bad idea. Especially over the keyboard. Yet everybody does it! Who doesn't like a cup of tea on their desk? A little cookie with their news? A little breakfast in their nook?

Just now, I was eating a bit of late night toast and dropped the bread. Naturally, due to compounding factors in Murphy's law working against my computer and for the bread: it fell Jam Side Down. You can imagine my grief, to see my snazzy Mac laptop featuring sticky orange goo. You can also imagine my relief that it missed all essential bits and landed square on the one empty patch of case. Now it's like it never happened, but perhaps this serves as a warning?

My mom gave me a geeky little keyboard condom the other day... i think I will use it.

Yesterday my sweetie was holding something exciting behind his back and says to me "Now, I know most girls wouldn't find this romantic, but since you're Adri -- I know you will!" I knew right then and there he was holding a piece of gear. It was a small and very light Manfrotto Modo tripod. Yay! I have needed a tripod for years... He had planned to take me out to a viewpoint but it was raining sheets outside. We shopped for shoes for him instead at the Fluevog store. Strangely enough John Fluevog was there, and I told him what a fan of his shoes I was. I wonder if he gets that a lot, now that his face is plastered all over town on billboards advertising Granville Street? Sadly, I was wearing a pair of cheap Aldos at the time, and not one of my 4 pairs of Vogs. For shame!

This morning I found out that a couple of my photos were chosen as finalist in a Flickr group Valentine's contest. I don't usually enter these things, but someone invited me so I could hardly refuse. This was one of them...

Christmas was kind to me this year: my Sweetie and I treated ourselves to a computer upgrade! I am experiencing a total techno-gasm right now. Eeeee! I can't contain my excitement any longer, and I must record this experience.

I am touching a lovely Macbook Pro Core 2 Duo laptop. It's all shiny and metal. It's a cool quiet best of a machine that really smokes through tasks. It crushes our prior iBook in terms of what tasks it can handle. The screen is brighter, bigger and denser. I feel like someone has totally opened up my work area! Suddenly editing photos seems far easier. What a relief!

I am using my very first bluetooth mouse. I have mapped the Expose feature of Mac OS X to the click of this mouse's little 360 degree scrolling nipple. I feel 200% more efficient when switching tasks now. Switching windows has never been this easy. Forget about tabbing through software, Expose is the shiznit! I haven't been this happy switching through tasks since I had an Amiga back in 1995. (R.I.P. Commodore. May the Guru be with you.)

I wonder what other techno-miracle Apple will think of next. Tomorrow is the big Macworld Expo when Apple typically announces their latest and greatest. I can't wait to see what those crazy wizards cook up next!