East of the Sun, West of the Moon

…Who’s there?

Apparently not me. Just got nudged that I hadn’t written anything in a few days. My apologies!

I’ve been ignoring the news a bit today, since what’s on there doesn’t make anyone any happier, I’m sure.

On the OS X front things have mostly settled. I replaced my dozen Terminal.app instances with a single tabbed iTerm instance, after getting it set up correctly. I gave up — for the moment, anyway — on CodeTek’s Virtual Desktop application. Something in it makes Firefox lose keyboard focus a few times too often and since that browser is here to stay, the other one had to go. So then I was once again back to one desktop. This is part of the reason that I tested iTerm again, and this time successfully, to reduce the clutter in my Dock.

However, a keyboard shortcut to browser through the minimized/hidden windows would be handy, so I installed Witch (WIndow swiTCH).

I also installed WindowDragon for being able to drag/resize windows anywhere I bloody well like instead of just the title bar or the lower right corner, and ClearDock to fiddle with the looks of the dock, both of which require Application Enhancer (a.k.a APE), an interesting addition to your OS X desktop.

Other updates… oh, decided to consolidate my iTunes collection and redirect it to an NFS-mounted directory. I do so like confusing iTunes! Because the tracks I had in my collection were on the same NFS-mounted filesystem, this caused it to go at a snail’s pace and I had to let it run overnight. Ugh. But at least now I can better organize my tracks inside iTunes, instead of updating the meta data and then convincing iTunes that it’s changed. I think this’ll work better in the long run.

In entirely different news, this Sunday M and A and I went for a walk, visiting M’s mom along the way and apparently it was sunny enough that in the evening I felt like I got sunburned. Hmm, spring is really here now, eh? For those who know what all these letters mean I can confirm that N isn’t home, he’s been kidnapped by his grandmother again and visiting relatives on that side of the family in California during spring-break. I bet the weather’s even better there!

I’m glad to see a new entry for Ms. Beach Bum, I was beginning to wonder if everything was alright. Turns out she’s tired, perhaps, but alive and well otherwise.

And on that semi-positive note, I’m off to listen to some more music, get kicked across the board in another game of Go or two and try to do some useful work on this computer.