Around the same time I purchased the Mac, we also purchased an Airport Express so that we could stream music from our computers to our stereo.

It was something of a disappointment to learn that by default, you can only stream music to the Airport Express via iTunes, and that you can only use natively supported music formats to boot (such as MP3).

I have a new laptop! It is the Mac that I was promising to get a few weeks ago. [big sloppy grin]

So far I am loving it - all the goodness of Unix in a pretty and usable shell. "Numfar: Do the dance of joy!"

Actually, the transition has been easier than I was expecting, and despite making sure that I could set-up boot-camp (the ability to dual boot into Windows) , I haven't needed to once. I haven't even bothered to install it.

Well, what a month it it has been. [wipes sweat from brow].

We have purchased a house, we have moved (into afore mentioned house), attended a convention, and changed various technology in the process.

The house, as seems to be the way with new house purchases, has come with some surprises. For example:

Well if I'm going to have a published PGP key I might as have a Geek code block too:

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCC/CS/B/IT d-(++) s+: a C++(+++) USLAHOC+++ P+ E--- W+++ N- w+++ O
M++ !V Y+>++ PGP++>+++ t@ 5++ X(+) R@ tv@ b+(++) DI++ D+>$ r+++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------


-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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I am Solutions Architect for large and huge scale computer systems, and telecommunications systems in particular.

I have been developing telecommunications software since 1987. In the last ten years I have helped build a rating and billing system for GSM, a rating system for GPRS (or G2.5 as it used to be known in the media), two full Customer Care systems which included product provisioning and network mediation: one for wireless GSM and one for wireline, and two rating and billing systems for wireline. Read more

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