I’ve noticed that Mail.app really takes ages to render HTML emails, or those with images in them. Seconds elapse between clicking on a message, and it fully rendering in the preview pane.
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
Daily Archive
Ben Elton is pretty fantastic. He wrote for The Young Ones, and Blackadder, and has since written several books, most of which are pretty good.
His latest is The First Casualty, a historical fiction (?) piece set during the Great War. I was gripped, and read it in one sitting. No comedy here, guys, but well worth the effort.
The guts of the story: in 1917, a war hero and poet is killed, not in action, but while recuperating after being injured, and shellshocked. A disgraced police officer, who was sent to jail for refusing to fight in the war (not a conchie, as his grounds were “purely intellectual”) is ‘recruited’ to find the identity of the killer.
Thu 9th Mar 2006
iPod Software 3.1.1 Crashes
Posted late afternoon, filed under Rants and Raves , iPod.If you have a 4G (Clickwheel) iPod, and you use it, don’t install iPod Software 3.1.1. This version of the firmware causes the iPod to crash sometimes, even often, when going to sleep or waking up. You then need to do a force-reset (hold MENU & SELECT for 6-10 secs) in order to cause it to spin up, losing your place in a bookmarkable file, and possibly play counts for other tracks.
I downgraded (using the Restore feature from iPod Updater 2005-09-23.app), and haven’t had a single crash since.