I have permission to exist again and I can indeed logon as and when I wish.

I’m booting classic for the first time in a long long long time. It’s nice and quick on my beauty of a Mac.

Neil Gaiman’s blog continues to rock and this entry had me giggling.

I’m close to giving up here. I need to run a specific tool on my Mac. It only runs in classic so hence I booted classic. I then found that I had the tool installed but it wasn’t in the configuration that I wanted. So I reinstalled it. Now all that’s left is to install a plugin. The plugin is of course a stuffed file. Classic doesn’t have Stuffit Expander installed. Ok, no problem off I go to our software drive and lo and behold Stuffit Expander for Windows. No sign of the Mac installer. One quick IM to IC asking for the location of the file leads to a *shrug* go download it from the web response. So I did.

While I was downloading I was reading Neil’s blog. I know I spelt the word giggling wrong so I copied the whole entry to the clipboard with the intent of spellchecking it in a local app. So tabbing into the app to find that my keyboard shortcuts are broken in this build. CTRL+N gives me a new web browser and not a new document. Fine, so file -> new -> text document. Paste. All good, click spellcheck. “The dictionary could not be opened because the file is damaged”.

I have no idea what I have done to deserve all this.

Chasm City I was up late last night reading this. The bastard has done the exact same thing as with Revelation Space. Towards the end of the book he throws out this awesome concept and it just stands there smacking you in the face with it’s sheer genius. I’m getting close to the end of it and I’m really looking forward to finishing it.