Not so cheesed off with Ai Forums March 2, 2007
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Well, okay, a few hours later, I’m not so cheesed off with AppleInsider forums. Maybe this is the getting more “normal”. Being able to say, frack this or that, and then, be like, thinking about something else and moving on maybe 30 minutes or a few hours later. Who knows. Well, hoping for the Job front of things. Saturday March03 deadline on Job01. Following which end of day Tuesday for phone call, Monday begin job search/ resume prep/ who knows what the hell to do… Hmmm….!!
Switching to low-profile on AppleInsider March 2, 2007
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After building up a lot of posts and a divisive user response, I decided to take the heat and pressure out of the equation and go anonymous on AppleInsider. Web reputation and skillz and 1337 and what not aside, time to set things aside. Wherein to the real world would I go? I don’t know. The intellectual stimulation is still there, some social stuff starting, but still, seeing what is going on. As far as AppleInsider is concerned though, 2004 to 2006 was some interesting times and made some friends. There’ll always be some people that like you, some that don’t, and some that couldn’t care either way, or are in their own way doing their own things. Some people will just be as they are. Anyways, was getting really sensitive with such a high profile on Ai. And Ai being a big site nowadays, I’ll switch out. Online chats seem to be okay but forum posts that are off-topic, hard to generate rapport. Fun at times, annoying at times, and sometimes, just a write-off. F8CK those losers anyway. Confidence issues aside, hmm, time to move on and let things be. Popularity is a funny, funny thing. Sometimes you feel like you’re getting away with murder.
Great stock widget March 2, 2007
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Highly recommended. Thanks to Martin’s iStock Widget. And Apple, of course. Excellence. Note that the Blue colour skin can be restored. Built a mod to have the blue table background looking a tad bit slicker (greyish). New Icon.png (purple) can be used, for example. And grey-ish stuff for the non-chart folded-in mode of the widget. The skin-mod set is available at Flickr.
Flickr – Giving it a second chance March 1, 2007
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I hate that it is owned by Yahoo, but what the hell, it seems to have kept its original spirit. So running off the Flickr thingy now for my photo posts. Still flying under the radar now, deprecating previously very personal, visible identities.
Adium and new Dock icons February 28, 2007
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So I’m getting into customising Adium. Some nice Dock icons and Status icons. Cool.
Allergies in this city February 28, 2007
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Well, running nose and sniffling. How the hell am I supposed to live and work in this city if for some reason I’m constantly sniffling and such stuff? Antihistamines of various configurations are being tried. 
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Nokia N73 and how to make it work with iSync February 27, 2007
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Just some links for now:
http://popagandhi.com/395/more-on-isync-and-the-n73/
http://thenokiablog.com/2006/11/05/how-to-use-nokia-pc-suite-on-a-mac/
http://www.mactomster.de/isync/nokia/
The evolution February 26, 2007
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After hanging with Ka’rn in Melbourne, yeah, I am starting to see the “disease” that is “bipolar” as an evolution. Maybe it’s just growing up. Maybe it’s an evolution. When the three white horses visited me in my dreams in 2004. Signalling a time for something new. And here in 2007/2008. The next stage. Baby steps. To something beyond right and wrong. Where all the duality have no meaning. A wholeness. But where whole and half-filled have no meaning.
The best thing I learnt from living and working in the US February 26, 2007
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Well, California anyway — not to player-hate. More power to those that live and learn and just, do what they do. Why should I hate them? Hate the game, not the player. I don’t even know what the game is. So yeah, why hate the players? What is the game? What is the game behind the game? [As Public Enemy (?) said].
As a conflicting comment though, I think Animal Logic people are a bunch of arrogant bastards. Just the industry, just the nature of being the 200-person elite in a country that’s huge (Australia) with only a population of 20million people. But who is Animal Logic in 2007? In 2008? Who’s there? Who do I know? What the frack is my beef with them anyway? At least I’ll try by being honest about what is going on. Funny feelings. Envy and hatred. So random now though. Maybe it is slowly passing, and the ego is trying to grab at straws now to “live” when it is death.
Did San2 get a free MacBook from Ad’rw…?? Hmm. Update: It was just a off-the-books OffMac install.
The deal with Animal Logic February 26, 2007
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So Happy Feet won an Oscar. And my aunt was so thrilled a few months ago after watching it, poor psycho that she is, at least she was happy for something. Maybe if she was told it was part-Australian-made she might not have wished for it to win an Oscar. So coming back to Animal Logic. A few weird experiences: 1999/2000 a guy I knew went to SigGraph and before that mingled with some AL people at some party in Sydney. He didn’t seem to get an “in”. In 2003/2004 in Sydney, my friend worked on BigBrother as a production assistant/ producer/ etc. He had some people come ’round for a party. I knew this friend from Year 12 in Brisbane, and basically, like a few others I met, very even-keeled guy. Calm waters, his intensity channelled somehow the right directions. A bit plain at times, but I respect his approach to life. Anyway, his party, there was this chubby 20-ish woman/girl(?) who turned up with her boyfriend, she was a compositor for AL. Then I can’t place when but at some intense PsyTrance party in Sydney (Deedrah spun/performed – pretty amazing!) I met some guy that was paid $100k a year for doing some algorithm-programming-3D stuff. But he was very very low key about it and partying with people well, earning much less than him. He was promoting or at least explaining the difference between real MDMA and pills cut with other stuff that you usually get. So… and what’s the deal with Nicole Kidman and her plastic surgery. So… Animal Logic. Life goes on. They beat Pixar at an Oscar. But Pixar and Disney, Apple and Steve Jobs and what not. Life goes on.
How do we define what is important? What is meaningful? What is success? What is drive, desire, happiness, fulfilment? But herein lies what I do… Try and grab everything in one big grasp. Like that party – what was going on? Deedrah, amazing work. The Animal Logic guy. A girl named Freya that shepherded us that night. A piquant (?) petite girl that DJ’ed with an intense goddess banner behind her. She reminded me of Elka. The wicca practitioners (female witches) that were looking out over the party. Their surprise with my possible overwhelming power as I danced and channelled something intense through to the dance floor. The deep spiritual realisations out of time and space. Funny…. So many things in just that night. And so many achievements, in so many different ways. Like how the hell did they close off the after-party venue so as to get a good clean distribution of pretty-damn-pure MDMA to everyone. What is the day-to-day of working in Animal Logic? What is the day to day of interacting with the world through the Internet, whatever city one is in. Ghost in the machine. The ghost is in all of us. The Holy Ghost? Hmm… Like after being so depressed and unhappy about not having a girlfriend, 2000-2004 the people I met, partied, was intimate with, all a bit of a blur. But happy moments here and there. When I am happy I can’t remember the sad times. That could be a good thing.
