Hmm… a broken comments system
Hmm… a broken comments system
Another thing to add to the list of things I need to do to get this site how I want it
Hmm… a broken comments system
Another thing to add to the list of things I need to do to get this site how I want it
This particular statement in Apple’s marketing blurb for the new iMac may owe its catchiness to Sun Microsystems, but it’s important because I believe the iMac G5 is a true successor to both the original iMac released and the original Macintosh computer released 20 years ago.
The G4 ‘anglepoise’ iMac was a great design, however while it was an all-in-one machine, its form-factor seemed to be a concession to the fact that, at the time, it was impossible to put an LCD display, a G4 processor, associated heatsink and circuitry into the same casing without it looking ugly as hell. With the G4 iMac, the display wasn’t the computer, but the two were connected with a distinctive hinge with which you could position the display and carry the machine around.
If Apple perfected how to build a computer round a Cathode Ray Tube with the Macintosh 128k and the iMac, they’ve certainly perfected building a computer round an LCD with this new machine.
Unfortunately not in Barbados or other such destination to which I might want to get away from the heavy clouds currently looming over the British Isles.
The Tyne Tunnel, usually clogged with motorists on their daily commute, is running noticably free at the moment. To think of all those people I regularly share a traffic jam with, relaxing somewhere more pleasant; there can’t be many places on Earth more inhospitable than the Tunnel.
The reason I have to pass under the Tyne every day is because for the last three months, I’ve been busy working on a contract at Durham University. Specifically, I’m helping to build a web-based application for Durham Business School as well as designing them a new public site. Thankfully, both the client and the team I’m working with are keen on working with web standards and to make life even easier, especially when building the web-app for internal use, the whole university seems to be using a recent version of Mozilla. How refreshing.
Much that I’m enjoying this contract at Durham (it’s a very pleasant city in which to work), it does seem to be hogging all of my motivation at the moment, which is something I’m trying to rectify. So in the meantime bear with me, normal service will resume.