iBusy

Busy at work, busy at home. I wanted to post at least one post a week but it's become very difficult.

I have some Unix stuff ready but have to be cleared out bit. May be next week.

Movie: Billy Eliot

Stunning. Electric. Funny. Very strong.

I love films about dancing. Go watch it if you like dancing too. Very strong story. I totally love it.

And of-course it's not only about dancing it's also about life in England. Life without mother and wife. How hard it can be for men. How men can be sensible.

You better watch it.

Lonely afternoon

Wife and kids gone. They stayed at Petra's parents and let me enjoy a week without them. This is the firs day and it's OK but I already feel I will miss them tomorrow. Well, I miss them right now but it's no so intensive.

I spend half of the afternoon at the computer than I decided to go out for a while. First I wanted to climb the hill opposite our house but the sun discourage me from it. I went to opposite hill where the old orchard is. As we have been there the weekend before last weekend I knew that I can fine some forest strawberries and cherries. Strawberries were almost all eaten so I had to chose cherries. I climb up one old cherry tree and enjoy. There were not quite fledged but some of them were really delicious. I hope that when I get there at the end of week all of them will be fully fledged. They are BIG and juicy and nothing tastes so good as cherries in the tree-top.

I think that working in tree-top could have positive influence on my performance. I was feeling very good and thought were coming at sudden.

I regret I did not have our camera with me to take pictures during the way home. The air was clean and the light was perfect. I belive I could have taken some nice scenery photos today.

iSecret

I thought that I will hide this blog from my wife. That I keep it secret. No, I'm not that good at it. After some discussion we got to it and I let her read it. I'll keep it like that. I will write me thoughts and moods here, she'll read it and than we'll discuss it. I'm bad in expressing myself directly so we have to use this workaround. Bit stupid, isn't it? But at least something.

Mushrooms

Mushrooms, originally uploaded by miromir.

Teaching my wife how to shot macro with Canon A520.

WWDC 2007 Keynote

I haven't heard it nor seen it not even read it on engadget. I read some comments n Maler.cz. I like the new look of Apple home site. The navigation is better and more ... handy?

Desktop: 3d Dock doesn't make much sense to me but OK. I like the "Stack", it's a good and usefull feature but what for when I'm using Quicksilver.

Finder: Seems to be much improved. Cover Flow is nice but why?

Quick view: can be quite handy but I'm not sure I will use it often

Time machine: yes, I would appreciate something like this but I can live without it. Just copy System disk to External HDD regularly (e.g. weekly) and that's it. Or set up some nifty unix script in crontab and it's automatic.

Spaces: another handy feature. Long time used in Unix world. Don't know why does it take so long for Apple to integrate it in OS X.

Mail: Templates in Mail look very nice and could be usefull too, but mail is for text communication and I prefer it this way.

iChat: I don't use it. My friends prefer Skype.

iCal: I don't use it that much. Google Calendar suits my needs better.

Dashboard: don't use it but it's a good feature.

Safari: I'm not sure if it is the fastest web browser. Opera seems faster to me. But I like Firefox because of it's extensions. Right now I'm playing with Camino and that's OK too. I'm not quite sure which of them I prefer.

Parental Controls: don't use it right now but I'm glad it's there. My kids are growing and soon they will want to use computer.

Boot Camp: I got G4 + Virtual PC. Ok, well, hmm. Why not, sometimes I need Windows. Still I find Parallels or VMWare more useful. But it should be there as a basic feature.

Photo Booth: Don't have built-in iSight so I don't have Photo Booth. Looks nice to play with.

Front Row: don't have it and wish it. But that will come with new Mac sometime in the future.

DVD Player: Ok, looks better. But I'm not sure it's worth it.

Accessibility: don't need it but it should be there as a basic feature.

Automator: I like it very much and the recording feature will be quite help for me sometimes.

So these are the features and my opinion about them. I think I'll upgrade the OS with new Mac which I will buy but don't know when. We are still in setting our home and we would like to buy a house so I'm not sure I'll have enough money soon. May be next year or more probably the year after.

P.S.: I would like to have something like AIX LVM (Logical Volume Manger) in OSX. I'm new to AIX but I love it.

On searching things

Because we can not use Quicksilver/Spotlight/find/grep and others while searching for things around don't let your day spoiled by letting the guild on your wife.

I have that small paper with vital info on the table and this morning couldn't find it. Looking, looking around and nothing. So I thought she must have trough it to waste. I searched the waste. Nothing. Kids. Kids stole it. No. I was getting angry than I calm down and said to myself: "It's not her fault. It's my fault. I should have written it to computer the day I made that record.". I searched a little bit more and finally found it.

Conclusion: Look around first and search deeply. Don't blame your wife or kids for your searching inability. It can save your day.