I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time lately looking at file synchronization software. I’ve been playing around with Vice Versa Pro for a week or so, and it works reasonably well. I stumbled across Beyond Compare today, though, and I think I’ll probably switch to that. It’s got a slightly nicer interface, and it’s got interesting scripting capabilities.
iBook back
The iBook is back, in one piece, and working dandy! I’m a very happy person. They didn’t have to reformat or replace my hard drive, so I didn’t lose any data.
iBook away
I gave my iBook to a nice man at the Menlo Park Apple Store today so they could send it back to Apple and replace the logic board. I should have it back in a week or two, and (hopefully) they won’t nuke the hard drive in the process.
iBook grief
SXSW
I finally got around to pulling all the songs I downloaded from the SXSW site into iTunes. 775 songs, just over 2 days worth of music. I’m really not sure how to approach listening to any of it. Just picking a few things at random, there seems to be a lot of good stuff in there.
Jonathan Coulton – Mandelbrot Set
I heard this song on a podcast yesterday, and just loved it. It really reminds me of RPI.
Animation Now
I just bought tickets for this. It should be fun, even if a lot of the Dreamworks stuff isn’t that great. I’m definitely interested in whatever Wallace & Gromit stuff they’ve got ready.
Limbeck
Water
It looks like I can drink water from my tap again. Yay!
PSP
A few quick thoughts on the PSP, now that I have one:
– The screen is very nice, but also very reflective and a major dust attractor. I have no dead pixels, as far as I can tell, but I think I’ve already made a small scratch in the darn thing.
– Lumines is about as good as this cartoon indicates.
– The Mad Catz ProPAK that came bundled with it (via WalMart) is mostly useless. The headphones they give you aren’t nearly as good as the ones that come in the box with the PSP. The screen protectors are impossible to apply without winding up with a bunch of very visible air bubbles underneath. About the only useful thing is the USB cable. (They really should have just included one with the PSP.)