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Entries from February 2005

Of OpenGL and Puppies

February 15th, 2005 · Comments Off

First, just to get this mention out of the way, someone asked me today what was on my website (besides Adventures in Mac Land). When I said nothing, they said “not even a picture of your dog?” So… at the end of this post is a picture of my little dog Autumn (6/F/Toy Poodle). The [...]

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Tags: Mac · Photography · Programming

The End of a Week + 3

February 14th, 2005 · Comments Off

Well, I’ve decided to make this my last official Mac related post. I have been getting quite a few hits and I hope I’ve helped more than a few people. This post is being duplicated on my homepage, and that is where you’ll find future updates. I’ve made the switch so I’m not sure it [...]

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Tags: Games · Mac · Me · Programming · School

Smooth Sailing

February 13th, 2005 · Comments Off

I’m not sure how much more I will be writing here. I must say that within about a day or two I was fully converted and had next to no problems. I didn’t expect things to go that fast. I’m not sure if this is because I used to use MacOS (back in the 7.0 [...]

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Tags: Mac · Me · Reviews

Command Line Fun

February 12th, 2005 · Comments Off

I spent the better part of today working on my web site. This meant spending most of the day on the command line navigating around, running Python scripts, and programming to fix little bugs in my content Managment System called SiteMaker. My overall experience is still quite positive.
I’ve gotten more used to navigating around with [...]

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Tags: Games · Mac · Photography

Real Use

February 11th, 2005 · Comments Off

Now that I’ve solved my mail problem and such (see yesterday), today I really started to use this Mac heavily. With my school project done, I’ll have more time to work on this too. So let us look at some of the things that I did today.
First, I finished working on my school project. This [...]

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Tags: Mac · Me · Programming · Reviews