A picture is worth 1000 words….

This is ridiculous - My height in Apple Boxes!!!!!

Bottom to top;

• iBook G3 (Clamshell)
• iBook G3 700 (White 12″)
• Titanium PowerBook G4
• PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz
• PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz

Occasionally I stumble across one or two things on the web that are really clever, either because they work really well or just show off some fancy AJAX JS technologies…

The most visually appealing (and arguably most pointless) has to be TheBroth, which provides a shared canvas and 100s of movable pixels that everyone who is on the page at the same time can contribute to in real time. If you want to do something a little more useful with pictures you might like to look at pixoh which provides basic image editing (rotate, crop, contrast, brightness etc) in an entirely web-based environment. If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to share your photos online (particularly if you use iPhoto) be sure to check out bubbleshare.
For a bit more pointless fun there’s always sinkmyship.com - an AJAX version of the classic game Battleships where you can play against other people and chat to them in realtime.

The most recent site that appeals to my “show off technology for the sake of it and achieve something really clever” is eventsites which allows you to create a page for your event with information, a map and photos and stores absolutely NOTHING on the web server that hosts it (the entire thing really is just one page and no database!)

And of course no pile of links about web apps would be complete without mentioning the one and only Meebo which I use daily at the moment to keep in touch with people since I don’t have my PowerBook…

All these (and more) continue to inspire me to do something similar, to write some groundbreaking web app.. but two things stop me… one, I don’t know enough AJAX stuff and two, I keep seeming to come up with ideas that other people have thought of!

As anyone who has visited mine will know the hall has become an interesting piece of art, as everyone who has ever visited (with the possible exception of people like the local takeaway delivery people) has contributed something to the walls (the most colourful of course being Kit’s handywork (pun intended) and painting :P)

Sadly, this has now come to an end as we’ve begun stripping the walls in the hope that my Dad will finally do something with the hallway that’s a bit more a) sensible and b) saleable!

Every single individual contribution has been archived (by way of photographs, we can’t pull it off in big enough pieces) and I’ll stick them all up here at some point. Maybe there’ll be another wall another time … but more likely a large notice board that’s removable

Update: There are 84 distinct contributions archived from the wall, there may be more to be added to that from previous attempts to photograph it (some of the original ones are a bit faded)…

Just a very quick post that hyperion (my beloved PowerBook G4) is on it’s way to Apple for a couple of things needing fixing in the meantime I will have more sparse than usual internet access so it may take a while for me to reply to any eMails sent, don’t expect to see me on IM a lot, and commenting on posts here is disabled….

I’ve been looking at the new Apple MacBooks and I must admit although it’s a step down from what I’ve got at the moment it would be faster for some tasks… still not sold on the new display though… have to wait till I see one in person in John Lewis (or until Apple open their Glasgow Apple Store, if we don’t take a trip to Manchester before then :P)

MacBook Pro would be ideal (15″ or 17″) but at the moment as I have NO money that’s not going to happen

Apple has a really nifty movie on their site at http://www.apple.com/retail/fifthavenue/ and about 30 seconds in… these three frames appear

The person holding the sign has to have been standing there for about 1 hour 36 minutes!!

Well I hope Uschi Lang said yes

JustMac on Ruthven Lane has closed (as you will no doubt know by now if you know me). On a related note so has the website at www.justmac.co.uk

I will not be involved with any future incarnations of JustMac and therefore have no idea what’s happening, but here’s a few photos looking back from happier times….

July 2004 - The Big Tidy (Mike was at T in the Park)
 >  Finishing Touches
 >  It never looked like this again
 >  Neat and tidy
 >  The team that did it all
 >  Mike seems please but shocked

November 2004 - London Apple Expo and Apple Store
 > We were still ThinkMac
 > Apple Expo
 > Mike
 > We never could get iPods in.
 > Shop Different.

February 2005 - Before Apple Vist
 > About this Desk
 > Anton

April 2005 - The PowerBook
Enough Said.

May 2005 - Tiger Launch
 > Tiger Launch
 > Our Demo Macs
 > Relaxing
 > Morph

June/July 2005 - Back Shop Refit
 > Tidy as always
 > Storage Before
 > Storage After
 > Took longer than expected

December 2005 - Ready to close for Christmas
 > Shiny New VoIP Phones
 > Last iMac G5Christmas Eve

January 2006 - Preparing to Leave
 > Finally get signs up, just before we close.
 > Holding the offer to lease the new unit

February 2006 - Moving On Up
 > Moving on Up
 > Last Demo Mac
 > And now there is one.

March 2006 - The iMacs
 > We got a few iMacs for clearance.
 > And a few more.

April 2006 - The End.
 > Once our shop.
 > Not much left.
 > Days before JustMac
 > Slightly battered filing cabinet
 > Store Room
 > The shop
 > Powerless
 > Left Off.
 > Good bye.

Updates have been rather few and far between recently for a variety of reasons which many of you will already know… So I guess this is a quick note to say that I’m still alive and updates will continue in the near future

Well after many years they finally tied the knot!

Congratulations to you both - Have fun in Italy

Photos are at http://www.iross.net/photos/v/mumrobertwedding of course