international nut of pastry - I think this lines mostly filler.

Thanks be to Mike for sending me a link to PhotoSwap.

This awesome little app encourages you to share your surroundings with random people. You simply take a photo of whatever you want and it gets sent off to a random person. You'll then receive whatever photo they've just taken. The idea is simple, but it's strange addictive. I've been wandering around for the last hour or so taking random photos to send to people I'll never meet.

The app gives you the option to reply to someone's photo - so you can send another photo to the same person. As well as a "show on map" option so if you want you can see a rough location of where the photo was take. But this can be turned off if you're concerned about privacy.

A key thing about PhotoSwap is that you must participate to receive any photos. You can't simply run the app and expect to receive anything. Unless you send out photos, you get nothing back. A couple of expected features are missing, but it's only at version 1.0 so I'm expecting plenty of improvements over time.

Some of the photos I received have been attached for just laughs.

Back in the 90s Chris Cornell fronted Sound Garden and a great sound was created. In the 00's he fronted Audioslave and, well... Their first album was a great sound. In 2007, Chris Cornell has gone solo... And is the open act for Linkin Park. How the mighty have fallen.

My choc-chip ice cream is lacking in choc-chips. I feel ripped off.

Recently I've considered getting a MacBook. While I'm not about to rush out and bust the shrink wrap off one, the idea has fluttered into my head on ore than a few occasions. I find this odd, since I really don't have a need for a laptop. I don't really go anywhere where I've needed a laptop and apart from the ability to geek-out when in someone's living room or be able to use the WIFI to access the Internet by the pool - I don't need one.

Yet, I still sometimes think of getting one. When the idea first came to mind I thought the best way to get one was to save money on a second hand one. The problem with this is that I don't trust ebay for large transactions.

Two new books today, both by Chuck Palahniuk.

Rant - Rant is told in the form of an oral biography. The main character, Buster Landru "Rant" Casey, is already deceased. Various people discuss their memories of Buster and the world he lived in, presenting stories that occasionally conflict. In the first sentence of the first interview, a character says he "didn't meet and talk to Rant Casey until after he was dead," setting the stage for the convolutions later in the story.

Lullaby - Lullaby is the story of Carl Streator, a newspaper reporter who has been assigned to write articles on a series of cases of sudden infant death syndrome, from which his own child had died. Streator discovers that his wife and child had died immediately after he read them a "culling song," or African chant, from a book entitled Poems and Rhymes Around the World. As Streator learns, the culling song has the power to kill anyone it is spoken to or even thought in the direction of. During his investigations into other SIDS cases for his article, he finds that a copy of the book was at the scene of each death. In every case, the book was open to a page that contained "culling song." Streator unintentionally memorizes the deadly poem and he semi-voluntarily becomes a serial killer (killing, for example, annoying radio hosts and people who elbow into an elevator when he is late for work). He then turns to Helen Hoover Boyle, a real estate agent who has also found the culling song in the same book and knows of its destructive power. While she is unable to help him stop using the culling song, she is willing to help him stop anyone else from being able to use it again. The two of them decide to go on a road trip across the country to find all remaining copies of the book and remove and destroy the page containing the song. They are joined by Helen's assistant, Mona Sabbat, and Mona's boyfriend, an eco-terrorist named Oyster. Streator now must not only deal with the dangers of the culling song, but with the risk of it falling into the hands of Oyster, who may want to use it for sinister purposes.

Still only half way through "Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How The Mac Was Made". Which is a series of stories by Andy Hertzfeld regarding the creation of the Macintosh computer. Some of the stories in the book come from this site.

This story takes place back in the WakeOver days again - that's one story I should take the time to write up.

Once again, I'm not sure what year this actually took place in. But it was quite possibly 1995 as I had not yet acquired my PowerBook 190cs, and I know for sure that it was on or around my birthday. Like usual for my birthday, it fell during school holidays so once again Adam, Luke and I organised another WakeOver to be held at my place. Much fun was had, a lot of Pepsi was drunk and many network games were played.

I'm not sure who gave me the present, but it was certainly appreciated. After all, we'd been playing the same games for a few days straight so a change was welcomed.

The game I received was a little known title called Entomorph. Never heard of it? Told you it was little known.

Yesterday the new MacPro towers were announced.

I want one.

And...

I'm getting one.

In a month-or-two I'll be placing my order for a dual 2.66GHz dual core Xeon, 1GB of RAM, 160GB SATA 3GB/s HD and a ATI Radeon x1900 XT 512MB 256bit.

Only a 160GB HD for now, as larger HDs are cheaper to be purchased from other places ($115 for a 250GB WD SATA, for instance). Same with the RAM. 1GB will do for a little while until I pay off the tower. Which thankfully won't be too long thanks to some savings, and a tax return.

The MacPro will be a big upgrade from my dual 867MHz G4. I'll finally be able to run Aperture, and get away from the basic program that is iPhoto.

This isn't titled "My First Computer" as that would be a Commodore 64. But that was used as a game console, pretty much. Cartridges and tapes, woo! Of course, that's another story.

The Macintosh LC 475, 68LC040 25MHz, 4MB of RAM and a 160MB HD with a 640x480 14" monitor - this was my first Mac and my introduction into computers.

It's obviously not much now, but back in 1994-95 when I got it... It wasn't top of the line then either. But I had no clue what I was doing so it did me fine at the time and for many years. From school work, to games. Many games.

As years go by, friends will drift in and out of your life. It's inevitable. We're just not the same people we are during our younger years. This comes from growing out of your younger ways, and growing into the person you will be for some time to come. Or because you move on from old hobbies or ways of spending your time and come to realise you have little else in common. There's probably a third reason but someone smarter than me can mention it.