Connor Bevans’ Personal Blog

Apple updated the MacBook lineup today, but the MacBook was the most changes was the MacBook Pro. What the Pro received today was the multi-touch trackpad of the Air, faster CPUs and Video Cards, and the option of the LCD being backlit on the 17 inch model. I do appreciate that they now have 512 MB of video memory in the Pro, and a slightly faster CPU, but, I have to say, what’s so good about multi-touch? “Rotating photos is easier than ever.” Woah! Do you mean that when I take a photo into aperture I no longer have to click the rotate button! “Easily move back and forward pages in Safari, without ever leaving the touchpad.” OH MY GOD! Are you serious? I don’t have to move my aching fingers to the keyboard and press command+(left or right) to go back and forward, thank goodness, ’cause I’m so lazy I can’t move my fingers a centimeter or two to go backwards or forwards! Thanks Apple. Well, in case you didn’t realize, I’m being sarcastic. Multi-touch is cool, but not really more effective in this scenario, and its hardly a breakthrough in technology for a trackpad. The old MacBook Pros had multi-touch, it just wasn’t being utilized in software. Hopefully Apple will do something to help those guys.

So, we’ve all heard about the 3 red lights of death, and the whole thing about how the Xbox 360 is incredibly unreliable. Heck, maybe it happened to you once or twice, but not for me! No it has not happened once! It has happened FOUR TIMES! And no, it’s not even giving me the lights, meaning that as soon as Microsoft gets it they’ll say, oh…It’s not broken…Yet, even if they do give me a “new” one, it’ll be one that they didn’t ship of the older, less reliable version. I guess that’s business with Microsoft. So finally, after four times, I’ve started to consider upgrading to an Elite, hoping that it will be better. But what I’m wondering is what you think, so please, leave a comment and tell me what you think.

 PS - I haven’t called Microsoft yet, and I don’t know when I will, but the Scientists in the Bevans Extra Lucid Lab (BELL Labs)  have calculated that the chance of me doing so soon is approximately 1.32 percent.

Not until just a few days ago did I realize how difficult it is to build a website when you’ve never done it before. I had several problems with the WordPress installation, mostly due to the fact that WP was auto-installed with Media Temple’s tool, giving me an out of date version, and forcing me to go into FTP and update. FTP has been fairly slow, although the internet in general has been slow lately, however the client for FTP was excellent, as I was using Transmit. But at least once it’s done you don’t have to do the whole thing again. You might be wondering why this post is written as if it was to be said in a monotonous voice. Why? Because…Me=Tired…If you’re wondering what I’m using for hosting it’s a Media Temple Grid Server.

  Well, I just got back from the last day of Podcamp Toronto, and I had a Blast! Among the people I met in person were definetheline, Chris24, NichM, Chris Brogan, and many more. Most of them were on twitter, so here is a page with many of the people’s twitters. I met a lot of new people this year, and had a fantastic time. Visit the Podcamp Toronto Wiki for more information, and if you were there, PLEASE add your twitter to the page or comment.