On the iPod Touch (of course – what else have I been talking about for the past month – the poor computer’s barely had a look-in). The creator was on The Gadget Show on Monday night so I downloaded Rolando in its free form and have just finished the whole thing – a little bit this morning and the rest on my train trip home. V cute, fun gameplay. I may well invest in the full version sometime – really enjoyed it. And nice to grab a little down-time too.

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So this is a slightly inaccurate portrait of my travelling bear, Gerald. Looks like a great tool – perfect for those days where one has an unexpected 10 minutes but no sketchbook!

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Began to pull together some ideas (again) about how I want to tackle my new website. I’ve started this a couple of times but this feels meatier and more like it has a chance of making it to the coding phase.

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Got the CSS3 rounded corners happening! plus a few additions. I think I need to streamline the jQuery a bit and the whole design may yet change, but I’m quite pleased with progress, overall.

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A nice chap on the Garritan forums helped me out and told me about an update for Pro Tools which it seems Digidesign had hidden away in the depths of their site and not linked from the Check for Updates feature. So this has fixed the freezing problem I was having with GPO! And now everything’s running brilliantly (so far – expecting a CPU overload error any minute now). I got keyswitching working last night, which is genius, and have been messing about with percussion today. I worked out how to make a blank region so I could just write in notes, and discovered that there’s a whole channel for mod wheel control, so I can just draw in the mod-wheel data needed to control my drum rolls! Wheeee!

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and they worked!!! Fantastic stuff – it certainly seems easy to get started with. Whether it’s easy to carry on with, though, is another matter… only time will tell. For now I have a working page with links hiding and showing content and even a tab that slides in on command.

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Djeli brought home an Airport Express this evening – so now, without any hassle at all, I am able to print to the laser printer again (which in spite of much technological wrestling, I haven’t been able to do since I upgraded to Leopard), but the best thing ever is Airtunes – we tested it with the AE connected to the digital radio speakers up here in the bedroom and it was just so simple! Plug it in, restart iTunes, give it a minute to find everything, then just PLAY. Brilliant. I can’t wait till we get it properly set up with the stereo downstairs. If we get an additional AE for upstairs, it looks like we’ll also be able to set the same music playing all over the house, which will be brilliant for spring cleaning days. YAY!

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After a productive morning’s work and my friend’s physiotherapy appointment, we drove out to Abroath where we had a spectacular afternoon tea at Sugar and Spice – a teapot full of tea, little sandwiches (I had chicken, my friend had ham), simply enormous and amazing scones with superb raspberry jam and cream, plus a small strawberry tart, a raspberry/white chocolate/caramel slice and two shortbread biscuits. We finished our scones and then declared ourselves stuffed to puss’s bow so we had to ask for a doggy bag for the cakes – they looked too good to waste!

And of course a walk was in order to deal with the aftermath, so after buying a few small treats from the sweetshop section for djelibeybi, we wandered along the seafront and up into Arbroath before buying some Arbroath smokies (smoked fish – mackeral maybe? very tasty) for tea and heading home. Lovely!

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Djeli gave me a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner! Now, the idea of being given a vacuum cleaner seems ever-so-1950s, but… it’s a robot! So I won’t have to lug the vacuum cleaner about any more! HUZZAH!

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I felt the time had come to finally work up my “Guardian of the dumb idea” doodle into something a little more official. Woollyjitters says he looks like a trout playing golf. I don’t know that he’d take very kindly to that. At any rate, I’m fond of him.

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