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May 7, 2005

It’ll be a while before this ends…

You can’t blame the Mac users in the net flooding their blogs with Tiger stuff, I for one am one of them. As each day passes, one cannot help but be pleased with how Apple is shaping their OS. I’ll be discussing the other nice little surprises I’ve found while on the new OS.

But before that, lemme get the other kwentos out of the way:

I just got a new 200GB hard drive and nice aluminum enclosure to boot. The enclosure was a great deal, considering it was the last display stock. It was aluminum, with grilles on the side (for ventilation) and can connect to a USB or FireWire port. Another bonus was a secondary FW port which allows you to put another FW device should you decide to (like an iPod for example).

I already migrated my whole music library there which freed up about 51GB in the laptop. I also set it as a scratch disk for Photoshop.

May 6, 2005

Mah Biatch!

Imagine my surprise when Mom walked in with a new dog! And a purebred to boot, we must be moving up in the world hahahaha. We actually got her for free… cool!

She a Dachshund, and she’s sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute!

May 4, 2005

Kingdom of Heaven

I’m slowly getting back to my routine, it’s really great to finally get some rest.

We watched Kingdom of Heaven the other night – I liked it. I don’t know if having just been to Jerusalem had anything to do with it. I definitely appreciated the geography in the movie and trying to compare it to what we saw during the pilgrimage.

THe story was not bad too. Simple and tells a story mostly fiction I guess. But nonetheless I appreciated that the Muslims were portrayed as the more decent people. Fiction or not, the movie at least reminded me not to generalize a whole belief system simply because I disagree with them. I guess it all boils down to “time” and “situation.”

I also liked how the movie reminds people that Religion, which teaches love, peace and justice – is also one of the leading causes of death to date hehehe. How’s that for an irony?

Is it just me, or does Orlando Bloom have only one facial expression?

May 1, 2005

Le Tiger

I’m in the process of taking the Tiger plunge. Right now I’m taking my time (better safe than sorry) backing everything up.

For those of you who don’t know, Tiger is the latest build of OSX that has been getting all the hype recently – a Longhorn killer so to speak, but I would keep those sentiments on hold until Longhorn actually debuts.

Anyways, my main concern is retaining all my data since I’m planning to do a clean install. So I’m trying to list down (and backup) all folders and files that I may need.

This post may be useful in the future when I plan to upgrade yet again. So I might as well list down the databases/files I usually use.

The easiest way is to backup your whole ~/Library folder (the ~ means user directory) Of course, you may have a bunch of MP3s there (your iTunes library), so I suggest backing that up separately. You may also want to backup /Library (in the root directory) for good measure… you never know if and when you may need it.

May 1, 2005

Busy busy

Since we got back from our pilgrimage, we went straight back to our routines… almost too quickly. The lack of sleep has caught up.