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Eye eye
I like eyes
I think you should write what you like on here. Reading strangers journals is incredibly dull so I don't think a client would read it?
I think your journal only adds to your fantabulousness so you should update it more and put some more photos up.
Well I'm planning on splitting the technical stuff off from this site at some point, but I do want to keep this domain as the personal one - friends have been coming to radiac.net for 7 years, radiac.co.uk for 8, so I'd have to put a link over or they'd lose contact.
I'll just have to put a bigger warning sign up on the front page pointing potential clients where they should be going :)
Anyway, this is hardly the diary of a drug-dealing child-snatching serial killer - nothing here that should put anyone off. Besides, I write it as much for myself as anyone else - it's good to be able to look back 5 years and remember what I was doing, even if I do usually cringe ;)
I think my paranoia just got the better of me for a bit - never mind, back now :p
Easy solution... have a totally separate domain for your blog. Separate it from this site. However, what you used to write was amusing and didn't seem something that would put clients off. Of course if you are worried you should be cautious - you don't want to go out of business simply to amuse your friends!!
Time For New Spectacles!
Clients schmients.
Thanks :)
Yes, the post count is down - mostly because I've started to become paranoid about what I'm saying, because clients seem to pass this address around rather than the one they're meant to. Pfft.
Great diary... but real shame you only update it once in a blue moon these days.
EYE EYE
Sadly my eyes show no signs of ever becoming the right shape. Unless I have an eye transplant. Mmm, eyes.
I just hit my head with a spoon until my eyes are the right shape again.
In the words of my most repeated phrase today:
"RUBBISH!"
So rubbish that you're SO not added to my favourites.
So there
Safari For Windows
Mmm, that does seem most likely. It does seem a bit far-fetched that they'd reinvent something like XUL and limit their potential audience for web apps, but then it's been done before.
I suspect the real answer is the iPhone - it'd be braindead if the interface weren't at least partly based on webkit/safari.
Having a browser that runs on windows that people can test their web apps against would no doubt help with the iPhone compatibility...
It's apple. Why would they want a business sense when "looking cool" is No. 1 on the priority list?
You know you want one...
Join usssss!
Upgrading to... XP?
Mmm, maybe! Still not convinced, but will look into it more when the time comes to replace the laptop - it's still a bit too young at the moment.
Cooking With Radiac
I can't wait for the cookery book to be published Hmmmmm grilled muffins yum
Upgrading to... XP?
You're right, Office for Mac doesn't support .docx but what I was trying to get at is dump your current laptop, get a MacBook Pro and use that as your Windows laptop for when you need Windows, it'll run Windows natively with no problems at all.
The spec is fantastic for the cash, your clients will think you're a flash bastard (you are aren't you?) and there's a program called Parallels Desktop which lets you run your Windows apps inside OS X without any emulation.
Hi indie, been meaning to e-mail you for... years!
Problem is that I've got all my stuff for Windows, and I have a Windows desktop and laptop. I would have to buy a new mac version of Office, and it wouldn't be Office 2007, so I'm guessing it wouldn't support the new file formats.
Then there's the Adobe stuff - I have a single license for my desktop and my laptop. If I moved my desktop to a Mac, I could transfer the Adobe license from PC to mac, but apparently you can't run it on both at the same time; I would either have to buy a second copy of the software for my laptop, or I'd have to buy a mac laptop too.
Windows isn't brilliant, but it's just too expensive to move, and I can't see any benefits worth that much to me. Once it's all set up, it's pretty stable - XP has had no crashes since install day, and my w2k machine didn't have any real problems in years. The nix crossover would be nice, but I have Debian servers on my network anyway, and I run a VM with Debian on my laptop for Apache when off-site.
But I think your last bit sums it up - I'm pretty sure I'm just trying to come up with excuses to stick with Windows for the gaming ;)
OH MY GOD, it's Mr Stubbs, Another Boro lad!
I was like you once radiac, now I'm a mac fan boy ;)
My shiny MacBook Pro has a 2.33Ghz Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM, 160GB drive, Radeon X1600, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, 802.11n WiFi, 1680 x 1050 screen, Dual Layer DVD Writer and lots of nice stuff like a backlit keyboard, a built in webcam, external Dual Link DVI port, Firewire 400/800, decent speakers and optical in/out.
I bet you can't find a laptop that has all that for the £1600!
Oh and you get a nice suite of media apps with it, Movie Editing, DVD and Music creation. You can get MS Office for it, Adobe do Studio for it, OS X is based on FreeBSD so I can support all the nix stuff we have at work easily, I can run Apache on a real nix machine locally for all my testing and the best thing... thanks to that lovely intel chip inside I've got Vista installed on another partition for when there just isn't a mac alternative, C&C3 ;)