Behind the telly

The write window

WriteRoom’s great as a full screen editor, but it has a hidden beauty as a windowed text editor too.
Look at it - gorgeous simplicity, green-on-black loveliness, and a live word count in the window’s title bar. I shall say that bit again: a live word count in the title bar. That’s the one feature [...]

Portrait

Screenlog

Error message of the month

The wait

We are waiting for connection. We are waiting for an opportunity. We are waiting for this path to be filled; with life, with victims, with delightful sounds. The sounds of passion, and pain, and punters passing by. We’re waiting for you.
We’ve been waiting like this for too long. We waited while you were misbehaving in [...]

Visigami

Visigami is an app and a screensaver. It looks for pictures based on your search terms, and wafts them across your screen in a dreamy sort of manner. Odd.

Gelaskin your Mac

I like the look of some of these Gelaskins; a brand name for flashy stickers that cover the entire surface area of your laptop’s lid and make it look even trendier than it did before. Thirty of your American bucks, which works out at about half a whisper over here in the UK.

The modern wedding list

In my day it was all Denby crockery and electric toasters.
I saw a modern wedding list today, and items on it included:

USB record deck
500GB external hard disk
Energy saving lamps
Solar rock lights
Laser Cosmos mood lighting
Roomba
Lego Millennium Falcon
Bath towels

OK, so I expected the bath towels.

Park bench

Park bench -
Originally uploaded by gilest

Kate and Charl were deep in conversation on the park bench, while us dads entertained the kiddies.