As some of you may have heard, Snow Leopard was released a week and a half ago. I pre-ordered my copy from Apple, but didn’t get round to upgrading until the following Monday. First impressions were great: faster boot up, sleep and shutdown times, Time Machine backed up quicker, and the extra 7GB back on my HDD was also welcome.

Then I checked my local development environment. Screwed!

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Just stumbled across this guy on my internet travels. Its cool to see something a bit different every once in a while.

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Songwriter Martyn dies, aged 60

Singer-songwriter John Martyn has died at the age of 60.

The folk, blues and funk artist was widely regarded as one of the most soulful and innovative singer-songwriters of his generation.

He was born in Surrey but grew up in Glasgow. He was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours.
A statement on his website on Thursday said: “With heavy heart and an unbearable sense of loss we must announce that John died this morning.”

Shit man, going to miss this guy. Music’s just lost a legend. Went to one of his shows just before Christmas, it was fuckin’ amazing.

Finally managed to get a bit of content up on here in the form of a few drawings I did some years back. Why not have a gander over to the old Artwork section…

After much bullying encouragement from a mate of mine, I’ve decided to finally take the step into the Mac world and pick myself up a 15″ 2.4GHz MacBook Pro.

Got to say man, I’ve enjoyed my time on it so far and I haven’t even installed good old Photoshop yet or done any proper coding. Also, lovin’ some of the stuff you can do with the Trackpad and can’t wait to get playing with TextMate. But first things first, how do I reprogram that hash key..?

More updates as I muddle on through.

Tag the season… in bulk!

This is something I’ve wanted to be able to do for a while in Delicious. Now I can finally update the tags on all those bookmarks I imported from Firefox.

New MacBooks Are Cranky: They Have Insomnia and Hate Third-Party RAM

The standard “journalism” rule is that three is trend. So here’s one with the new MacBooks: They’ve got problems! Screwy video cards, insomniatic, power-sucking sleep and not playing well with other RAM.

And there was me planning to swing by the Apple shop sometime soon and pick one of these up. Might leave it a month or so now…

Just came across this on Digg. Kind of reminds me of how mine started…

54 Mind-blowing Digital Paintings

Absolutely amazing! Wish I’d put more effort in during art lessons…

I particularly like that Artgerm dude. Some of his are awesome.

My Wacken 2009 tickets finally arrived yesterday morning after ordering them a couple months back. They look awesome! Got to hand it to the Germans man, they can definately organise a festival. Can’t wait. Went last year for the first time and it was one of the best festivals I’ve ever been to. 4 days of heavy metal! Hopefully this year will live up to last’s standards.

Plus, Cathedral are playing. Not been in to them for very long, but looking forward to headbanging away to some of their groovy doom riffs! Bring it on!