Quelqu’un dans l’assistance a une Freebox v4 qui ne lui sert à rien ? C’est pour faire des tests à Smallville ce week-end.

Yesterday I threw away all the principles I’d been taught. Everything my parents ever taught me, flushed down the drain. My inheritance. Being gay was not against my family’s values.Giving my my diploma as en engineer, becoming an independent designer, living with my parents almost until I got thirty, all of that was unimportant. For the first time I’ve done something that really goes against everything they taught me, and I’m really ashamed — and it took me twenty-four hours to muster the courage to post this. So, here goes. I signed up for a real credit card.

Quelqu’un peut m’expliquer pourquoi j’ai “Au pays de Candy” dans la tête ?

Would it be absurd to consider replacing my iMac G5 with a 2GHz MacBook from the first revision (i.e., Core 1 Duo), brand new for $720 (accounting for the tech market’s $1=€1 exchange rate), boosting it to 2GB with external screen and hard drive? Would Photoshop CS2 be unusable?

Seeing a title from Wired on my aggregator, I realize I ought to catch up quickly on Battlestar Galactica before the show ends rather than follow it on SciFi France if I don’t want to be spoiled on whatever big surprises can come next.

It feels weird having an Apple computer on its way to my home and not being excited much. Maybe because the main feature it’ll bring me is the ability to run Windows.

I should have bought a MacBook, at least it would have made me happy for a couple of days.

I’m not the kind of person who remembers quotes.

I wonder what that means about me.

Canon PowerShot G3 @ f/2.0

Wow, I can’t believe this works — I’d been wondering for a while, so I finally plugged both Macs to the capture box’s two Firewire ports, and… boom (the good kind).

I’m half-worried that it’d overheat and explode or something, but the purpose isn’t to watch TV on both at the same time, but switch from one to the other when I need to, now that the mini shares its screen with my Xbox.

Wonder what would happen with a camcorder. Or a hard drive (but that one I won’t try).

P.S. Oh, by the way, since I didn’t found an answer on Google when I looked: sharing a Formac Studio DV between two computers (Macs).

Suite au succès de l’opération précédente (j’ai pu me débarrasser de ma tour PC pour presque le prix de sa seule carte graphique, et j’aurais pu fourguer mon Mac mini si je n’avais pas hésité trop longtemps), on remet ça pour un petit nettoyage de pré-printemps. Eh oui, parce que je n’ai toujours pas confiance en eBay.

Un Mac mini G4 avec 256 Mo de RAM et 40 Go de disque dur, acheté neuf en déstockage il y a un an et demi, avec la boîte. Enfin, vendu avec la boîte, pas juste acheté avec la boîte. Pas un foudre de guerre, mais les vrais Mac-geeks n’ont certainement pas besoin que je leur explique tout ce qu’on peut faire d’un Mac mini. (Vendu cause besoin d’une machine Intel. Et cause intention de transférer mes 100 Go de MP3 sur un Mac mini et je doute que ce modèle-ci supporte le coup.)

Un scanner de négatifs USB Minolta Scan Dual II, avec supports pour négatifs et diapos. Vendu cause j’ai pas sorti mon réflex argentique depuis, euh, deux ans ? Ou cinq.

Un lecteur de cartouches SyQuest 270 Mo. Sur port parallèle, en plus (il est possible qu’il marche aussi en SCSI, je ne me souviens plus si j’avais essayé.) Eh… je ne sais pas à quoi il peut servir à qui que ce soit, et il a plus une valeur sentimentale qu’autre chose, je l’ai eu en paiement de mon tout premier stage (c’est combien, déjà, la prescription pour le travail au noir ?). Mais qui ne tente rien n’a rien, et puis c’est un joli presse-papier.

Des enceintes Logitech X-140, neuves dans la boîte. Pas trop pourries pour des petites enceintes de bureau (enfin, pas si petites que ça, non plus), pour autant que je puisse juger (mais ça ne vaut pas un caisson de basses quand même).

By the way, out of curiosity: who else among my faithful reader-fans has a 360 (and Live Gold)?

You did not expect me to blog in the days following my 360’s arrival, did you? (Not that I write much in general anyway.)

The past three days in a nutshell: I’m in love with Test Drive Unlimited’s physics and can’t wait to buy the actual game; Gears of War is, indeed, awesome; and achievements are awakening a competitive spirit I had completely forgotten I might have, making me spent an extra night on Hexic just to boost my gamerscore.

Is anyone on the premises in a happy, working relationship with a significant other they fell in love with at first sight, or chat, or fuck? Because, looking from my history and that of people around me, the “prince charming” shtik doesn’t look like that much of a winning strategy, right?

January 1. The first day of a new year. Time to do away with all those resolutions you drunkenly blurted out a few hours ago and come to the cold, harsh realisation that 2007 will in all likelihood transpire much like 2006 did. You won’t diet. You won’t get in touch with long-lost friends. You probably won’t give to charity, you won’t quit smoking and you definitely won’t quit drinking.

Annd maaanyy moooooore…