infoxicated

Tonight our new land lord paid us a visit and gave us some good and bad news. The good news is that the house is ours – they’ve taken it off the market, so to speak, and they’re not intending to let it to anyone but us. This is very cool.

The bad news is that it’s still a week and a half away from the renovation being completed. Which means our plans to move in this week are completely dashed. This, as well as being inconvenient, is very bad timing into the bargain. It means we’ll be moving stuff on the eve of my forthcoming birthday celebrations, and in the first week for ages when Fliss is working full time.

It would be pretty horrible if these two events clashed. As I’ve discovered in the last couple of years, house moves come fairly frequently. 30th birthdays do not. While I’m not exactly relishing the thought of leaving my 20’s behind, I am wanting to do it with a big enough bang that it’s memorable.

Kieran’s & Ellie’s barbecue on Saturday just passed was a fun day for all. Although I shouldn’t be surprized with the company we were keeping (Rich, Colin, Rob D) a 24 pack of Fosters, amongst other beer and beverages, should last a damn sight longer than 8 hours!

Since this is only July (although with the weather here in Liverpool it might as well be February), hopefully there’ll be the chance of another of these seminal events before the summer is out? ;o)

A few weeks ago I followed a link from Jeremy‘s site to the Apple “Switch” campaign area on their site. As a PC user this was just out of curiosity, you understand – I am at least open to the idea that PC’s might not be the holy grail.

Anyhow, reading through the Mac propoganda I came to a grinding halt when I met the line “Mac’s don’t crash!”

Erm… since when?!

A year and a half working at a publishing company with a good number of them around taught me that they crash just as often as PC’s… maybe not in the same way, but they crash all right. I don’t mind being sold something – I’m a fairly easy guy to convince if I can see the benefits of something myself and I get the feeling the sales pitch is a reasonably honest one. So this is why I left the Apple site with a shrug – they should at least sell their system on its obvious benefits instead of slinging mud at PC’s.

I found this article today that underlined the train of thought that in addition to falling sales… Apple might have bigger problems on the horizon due to this very advertising campaign.