vendredi 13 août 2004

Please don't say pink Well. Only if you must. You see, if you tell me your favourite colours, then I could suit these pages to your taste. After all, you ought to have a say in the shape and feel of the garden, don't you think? Especially since I've stayed in a good mood despite the difficulty of writing up a wonderful but painful movie this morning and this evening's almost inevitable arrival of two problems. The first was something Steve 'The Twisted Genius' Jobs did to the Rolls-Royce, in his insistence on staying the Right Side of the Law by breaking it. I sorted this out with a hack and found while getting the car back on the road that it's better if you hack the hack, a trick I'll tell the Mac community in the morning. Then there was the latest twist in the Wildcat's Adventures in London, involving an irritating domestic cat, a possible trip to Cornwall and a half-mad girlfriend. That was more difficult to sort out. If you drive on the Left, it's easier. I learned an interesting fact from the Kid. All that majority of people who drive on the right are Napoleon's fault. Including Americans. The Brits are not "quaint"; they simply still get it right by being on the left. In ancient times, we were all lefties. Ship captains, canal barge haulers, Métro and train drivers still are, if you've ever given the matter any thought. But none of these people ply their trade on Parisian streets. When I'm rich, famous and grown-up I'll buy you the Rolls-Royce of windows on the world and creativity tools. There's no reason somebody with your skills and independence of mind shouldn't be one of the happy few. It's not that everybody who peers through stolen Windows users is a conformist, unfunny and unlovable. But it's no accident that in 'You've Got Mail', Meg Ryan, the children's book lover and small shop owner uses a Mac, while her mass market bulldozer of a foe, soon to see the light and fall in love with her, Tom Hanks, uses Micro$oft. Here's another outrageous demand. I don't just want to know what whiter shade of pale, or otherwise and more, I should use to plant the flowerbeds, but I need a name. The ghost in my machine has been so well behaved that I help by naming bits for people who matter to me. That's why the OS 9 partition is called "kora 9", the for-the-use-of friends part of OS X (where the mouse is in the Deskgirl picture) is "sondra's gift" and the iPod is "phoenix". A 'Songbird' is indispensable in a garden, but should have a more romantic name. I would be most honoured, Ellie, if you'd care to baptise her. if you don't want to dub 'Songbird' with your voice, then you could have 'Fiery Cat', which boringly means she's a cat and she does her connections by firewire... Tomorrow, I might explain a little thing or two. Changing the subject. 9:54:19 PM    your views? []

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