Jaffa Cakes and Sodomy

 I knew I should have binned that ruptured laptop battery. Damn my concern for the environment stopping me from doing so. One of the cells finally burst and let out a load of gas. I've moved Aragog into the bedroom so he's as far away as possible, but I'm still kind of worried - it's probably not a good thing to have unknown gases floating around a flat that I can't ventilate for fear of the cat escaping.

Any idea what it would be, and whether it's harmful or not? It was a Lithium Ion battery from a Macbook Pro, and the gas kind of smells like methanol, if that helps.

I just looked and my left propeller key's got a split right down the middle. HOW? D:

A replacement keyboard's going to cost like £50. Seeing as the laptop's on its last legs anyway (the screen corruption problem's not going away) I think I can manage for now - money'd be better put towards a Hackintosh-capable mobo (not got the cash for a new real Mac atm, but since Snow Leopard came out it's apparently really easy to roll your own now).

Snow Leopard does away with dfont support, bitmap Monaco goes the way of Chicago and the Dogcow

*mourns*

Thanks to the free printer I got today (thank you Aaron for being too lazy to set it up and giving it to me 8D ) I finally managed to print out some of the sheet music I've been storing up on the laptop but never got round to printing.

Initial sight-run of the Treno music from FFIX went well - hopefully I'll have it fit to record in a few days. (I think I'll post some of the other stuff I've been working on too)

Still not sure about the Chrome-style titlebar tabs (and very unsure about the new tab button being where the tic-tac belongs - top-right click should hide/show the toolbar :/ ) and definitely not a fan of them doing away with the stop/reload button and progress bar in favour of a non-obvious spinny thing/curly arrow in the URL bar, but it does feel a hell of a lot faster now, and the speed dial they've added is very nice - like Opera, only more Maccish. I'm really liking how they've used Core Animation; drag a tab away from the window and it morphs into a thumbnail that'll grow into a window when released; click on a speed-dial preview and it scales & fades into the full thing - it's all very polished. Love the improvements in the search box too - no need for Inquisitor anymore (the less extensions needed the better).

In short: I think I'll end up sticking with this release, at least for now; while it'll probably take a while for the new tab bar location to sink in, but the not-insignificant speed increase and improvements elsewhere make up for it.

Hmm.. I think my webcam might need cleaning or something - everything seems to be coming out with gaussian blur already applied :/

( Cut to spare your eyes from the FGAS... )

Finally got lured away from Safari D:

Firefox isn't as fast or streamlined as I'm used to, but all the lovely extensions really make up for it - Safari isn't exactly the most extendable program out there. Also, it means I don't need a separate LJ client - the combination of Deepest Sender & LiveJournal Addons more than replaces iJournal :)

k... I found out my new phone number the other day, and told Tiscali, so they'll be transferring the broadband over now (probably be another week or so).

I bought Leopard yesterday, and so far it seems pretty nice (I made a backup just in case, but it turned out I didn't need it - everything survived the upgrade OK :) ). I'm having slight trouble with Apache, but it should be simple to sort it out when I get home and haven't got quite so much sake in me :)

Oh, and I got a new coat - it's full length black leather, and it's really billowy & dramatic-looking... I'll post pics when I get the chance :D