About Time!
It’s finally here. After what seems like an eternity of waiting, the Apple iTunes Music Store is available to Australian residents.
With various holdups and delays, attributed by many to a record company holding out for extra cash from the deal, the store launched today.
While I think that the $1.69 per single is overpriced (compare that to AU$1.31 in the USA), I would have to say that I am extremely happy at the album price. Most albums seem to be $16.99, which is a dramatic improvement on the $30 - $32 you pay on an album in the store.
So, like others are saying my credit card had better get ready for some action!
Moved
So, some relatively major changes have been going on of late. The most significant being that we have finally got around to buying a house! It only took about 10 years of procrastinating and avoiding the whole issue, but we’ve got there.
It’s a decent enough brick and tile house on a battleaxe block in Bayswater. Not the best area, but certainly decent enough.
Obviously the majority of our time of late has been taken up with trying to get things sorted out in the house. Putting stuff in cupboards, moving it all when we realise that it’s in the wrong spot; drilling countless holes to hang shelves and hooks; organising a never ending stream of tradespeople to come and install airconditioning or rewire the house, or cut down trees or any number of things. Quite exhausting really.
And all of this while I’m trying to get enough work done that we can afford to go away on our trip to the US in a couple of weeks. Which in itself is going to be an ordeal … I mean, do you want to spend 20 odd hours in an airplane with a 15 month old toddler? Regardless of how much you love her?
Does he even listen to what he is saying?
After a fairly comprehensive victory in last night’s cricket match, Ricky Ponting had this to say:
"I don't think we had to prove anything to anyone," he said. "We heard some things coming into the tournament that we were a bit vulnerable. We had some points to prove and we've done that."
rsync on Windows
An excellent article by David Barrett on getting rSync to work on windows, with SSH and getting it to work with StrongSpace
Three steps and she's away
I was sitting down with Evelyn this morning, more in an attempt to prevent her from climbing all over the entertainment system shelving than anything else, and while she was holding several pieces of cardboard in her hand, she looked up at me and promptly took three steps. Just like that. Attempts to repeat the feat resulted in one or two steps here and there.
Caren and I thought she took one step yesterday morning, but you don’t know whether its a real step or just stopping herself from falling. But today’s were legitmate steps. Unfortunately Caren wasn’t around to see it, but that just means we have plenty of practice to do this afternoon!