Crash and Burn

Wow, nearly two months past since my last post. Since then I've spent a couple weeks hopping around London and Copenhagen, then took a week off to go back to Sweden. While there I got to see this year's Umea Insitute of Design graduation show. Check out the school site to see this year's work, it gets better every year :)

When I got back to LA, I had the pleasure of having my computer crash. And it crashed hard. After running some diagnostics, turns out the hard drive failed. That's a first for me. Luckily I had nearly everything backed up, and I still had a couple months left on the warrantee. The nice people over at Dell set me up with a brand new hard disk and CPU fan, and now I'm back up and running. I have to admit, I was kind of hoping the death of my computer would be a good justification for buying a new Mac. I guess I'll have to wait a while yet before making 'The Switch'. A newly formatted computer is a nice opportunity customize my computer, and in the spirit of really wanting a Mac, I've managed to get XP working quite convincingly like OSX quite well using WindowBlinds, ObjectDock, and Konfabulator. Now if I use my computer in the dark, I can pretend it's a Mac.

Unfortunately while I've been out of commission, visits to my site seemed to have increased fairly dramatically, all due to the "XBOX Sucks (In)" post; a lot of people searching "XBOX Sucks" are finding my site. As a point of fact, I wasn't saying that the new XBOX 360 sucked, it was in reference to the J.Hayes quote about the new XBOX design gesture. Sorry to dissapoint.

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