Ryly always says that a house without a cat is like a computer without a mouse -- It just doesn't work properly. One week after saying goodbye to Talisman, we adopted a 15 month old, tabby-and-white, domestic short hair. His foster name was "Jeffery" but we changing that to "Tundra" (after the pick-up truck I won't let Ryly buy).
Tundra has already proven to be a very intelligent and affectionate companion. He spent all day Saturday in my lap, watching the Summer Olympics with me and gently purred Ryly and me to sleep Saturday night. Sunday, I showed Tundra the intricacies of Quake Live although he seemed to prefer getting stroked and petted to watching me play.
Tundra and our two shelties have adjusted to each other very quickly. I'm sure none of them would ever admit it but I have already caught the three of them playing together.
Ryly has always been very much a Mac girl, but she's also a gamer. So when she found out that QuakeLive (beta), the game of choice for QuakeCon, would only work on XP or Vista, she bit the bullet and bootcamped her MacBook Pro. We put XP on it, she shut off all the sounds, changed the wallpaper, downloaded iTunes for Windows and FireFox 3, and was able to frag with the PC-users at QuakeCon. Her next challenge - do everything she can to make the PC side look like it's running Mac OSX. There are entire online communities dedicated to this worthy pursuit - should make it easier.
Speaking of Quakecon, check out our photos from Quakecon 2008!
I recently visited the Texas A&M Athletics web site and noticed February 16, 2008 had been declared "Acie Law Day". By coincidence, I received an email from an IT publication promoting a recent whitepaper discussing how the TAMU athletics department had updated their web infrastructure over the past twelve months to handle all the traffic generated by a rivalry game like A&M vs. tu. Buried in the middle of the whitepaper was a link to a YouTube video of Acie's game winning shot against tu. I never get tired of watching this clip. :-)
My music player of choice is foobar2000. Some of player's features are full Unicode support, ReplayGain support (both playback and calculation), advanced tagging capabilities, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and native support for popular audio formats including MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC / Ogg FLAC, WAV, WavPack, AIFF, AU, SND, CDDA, WMA. All supported audio formats can be transcoded using the included Converter component. Finally, foobar2000 uses an open component architecture, allowing the functionality of the player to be extended via plug-ins.
I created my foobar theme, inspired by Tool++'s minimalist clarity config for Panels UI (sorry, no links available), in a few minutes. With the release of foobar2000 version 0.9.5, I decided to reduce the footprint of my music player on the desktop. This is probably as small as I can realistically make this design (I usually size the foobar2000 window to 420 x 540) and still be able to read it comfortably.
Download the zip file (53 KB) which includes the latest version of my foobar theme, light and dark color schemes matching the macRoyale XP visual style, and the "no cover" image I currently use.
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