Okay, now it’s long been noted, particularly by me, that I’m a harsh environment for technology. I’ve frizbee’d MP3 players, my phone’s spent more time falling to the floor from a height (usually a hard concrete floor) than I’m sure it’d care to recount; my paranoia has meant that the only reason my iPaq survived was a process of me not actually taking it anywhere.
Well, it comes to this.
Do I try and keep the Mac as it was, a beautiful testament to Apples minimalist design? Or do I accept that I’m going to ruin the outside of the case, and slap stickers on it now?
Or do I wait until I’ve ruined the case then slap stickers on it?
It’s not like I’m short of stickers…
But it is very pretty.
As a side point. The office is very untidy. I’ve been poking at it since I posted and…well…now it’s marginally less untidy. But I’ve seen the light regarding wireless devices. I used to think ‘oh, why would I want a wireless printer’? Now I understand. Since I don’t have a desktop anymore (not counting the RiscPC which can’t actually drive the printer, or any of the devices in question ‘cos it doesn’t have USB), then I do seem to be suddenly surrounded by millions of cables.
There’s:
– The TV Capture Card
– The SD/MMC/CF/other odd memory card reader
– The Printer
– The hard disk
– The USB keyboard and trackball (for when I want to do serious stuff, or lots of typing)
There’s other devices too, but I can’t think what they are right now. Having shuffled things around a bit I’ve realised that (a) I need a much larger office, and (b) labelling the cables is going to be essential. So I have.
I need to tackle the pile of crap on the sofa-bed now. And then I should take the huge box to the recycling thingie (‘cos it won’t fit in our bin). And now, the excuse for this quick break? I’m going to post a few bits and bobs on Freecycle.
