Either way, that’s the good shit.

Aberdeen St House

Sweet baby Jesus and the orphans

I don’t really understand, but I like it very much. (hat tip: @NickHodge)

That is all.

I cannot believe it takes SIX MONTHS to think of a form letter and mail it. Honestly now.

Right now I’m making Ziggy from this pattern by Clare Taylor, which is both super easy and hell cute. I also recently made:

• a cuddly round item for a friend’s baby’s first birthday, dubbed Mouldy Potato Guy
• a kittycat for Mathew
• a number of square items reminiscent of Jess Hutchison’s Squarey, but much smaller
• a tooth-shaped critter for my coworker Jason
• an evil TV plush for my housemate.

There have been some scarves and beanies too. Tis the season, and all that.

Anyway blah blah blah, you’ll find me on ravelry as raena. But only if you have an invite!

Yes, we all know how special and wondrous CS 3 is. We also know that if you’re serious about design etc then you’ll be using a Creative Suite and not some $30 piece of shareware, which is fine and fair enough too.

That DOESN’T make it OK for you and your hubris to impose an obnoxious, 45-minutes-plus installation procedure on me for every freaking update, especially when you irrationally insist I need to close Safari for a tiny update to Version Cue (what the fuck for?). I actually NEED to have my browser open all day. Being an asshole just because there’s no one else to compete with you isn’t cool, mang.

No love,
Raena.

1. The community

Reasons why I should not put up with Twitter

1. Not fucking working A LOT
2. All alternatives suck more

That is all.

Everyone by now can recognise the determined individuality of an Al Young painting. Dense visual information. Movement and spontaneity. Improvisation. Jarring colours. Marks so crudely applied as to be of a child’s hand.
— stock

I got a new Toshiba Portege a few weeks ago, the first machine I’ve owned that came with a fingerprint sensor. At first the system seemed to have been designed in a sensible way. The fingerprint template is encrypted and stays local. It is never released or stored in a remote database. I decided to try it out - to experience what it ”felt like”.

A couple of days later, I was at a conference and on stage under pretty bright lights. Glancing down at my shiny new computer, I saw what looked unmistakably like a fingerprint on my laptop’s right mouse button. Then it occurred to me that the fingerprint sensor was only a quarter of an inch from what seemed to be a perfect image of my fingerprint. How secure is that?

Uh, oops?

Quoth the Nokia Music Store:

Nokia Music does not currently support the Mozilla Firefox (Mac OS X) browser on your operating system

Supported systems are currently Microsoft Windows XP or Vista

Supported browsers on the above systems are currently Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and above

To find out more information on Nokia Music Store and information about accessing the store through your Nokia devices have a look at the Nseries Music pages

What a short-sighted, stupid thing to do.

It’s 2008. If you still think that restricting your online app to one browser on one operating system is a good idea, you deserve to lose a lot of money.

Let me let you in on a little secret here. And I can tell you this from long experience, because I’ve been using Macs now for more than half my life. There are plenty of us Mac folk out there who have been using a Mac for ages. So if one of us offers some help, then we do know what we are talking about and it probably is because you’re doing it wrong.

We are trying to be helpful. Therefore:

1. Don’t take it out on people who are trying to be helpful. Yes, it’s frustrating.
2. Would it kill you to try something one of us suggests? I don’t care how long you’ve been using Windows/Linux/your Amstrad, you are still a noob, and we are not.
3. Say thankyou, lest you be branded as ungrateful little turds unworthy of further help.