Just as a quick thought … About the Non-Movie Night

You know, I think I owe Will the Manager, a bit of a ‘Thank You’, over at work.

Mostly because he let me borrow the office Sack Barrow, to shift my old — and very unmissed — fridge-freezer out to our block’s bin area. As soon as I’ve got the time, though, I’ll be getting in touch with Brentwood Council, to get them to shift it …

¡ That’ll cost, but … !

Either way, I’ve got to admit, I’ve now officially upgraded to iTunes 9; the one downside to to whole Fridge Freezer palaver is that I wasn’t able to get into London, for the one thing I was planning to treat meself too.

To a copy of the Snow Leopard upgrade disc.

As you can imagine, I’m just a bit peeved, about that!!

Especially as I had one of the regular’s mention today that he’d done the same, himself.

And managed to recover 15gB of Hard-drive space!

Ah-HEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know Apple have been saying they’ve managed to do some trimming, but that’s DAMN good!

Something like that, on my Mini, would be doing the hard drive a big favour, I know that; even when you consider that, when I did the initial boot up of the Mini — only this time, last year — I’d managed to save a some space by not installing the extra dictionaries, printer drivers and extraneous stuff that I didn’t need*.

Even so, that’s a lot of songs.

Or pictures of entertaining pics of young ladies in corsets.

Whatever happens to float your boat!!

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The one thing I do know, is that I’m having to use Thunderbird, as Mail.app seems to have developed a glitch, somewhere.

And, to be frank, Thunderbird isn’t as Mac-like as I’d’ve hoped; it doesn’t seem to handle RSS feed with quite the same elegance as Mail.app does, nor does it match the rest of the OS X look and feel.

But, until I get around to re-setting Mail.app’s permissions — or the .plist’s, which is where I suspect the problem is — it’ll do!

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* I do know that Dan — who’s an old friend, and something of a Mac Mæstro — also pointed out something, that hadn’t occurred to me. Quite simply that Leopard is the last version of OS X that Apple shipped, that’s compatible with the older ppc processors. Which was Dan’s point; as Snow Leopard only supports Intel Macs, it doesn’t need the ppc code. Bit of space, there, then!