Autumn's Here

I'm listening to Hawksley Workman's "autumn's here" and nothing could be more appropriate. Autumn is indeed here. The leaves are falling all around and everywhere. It's lovely, but the prospect of winter is not one that I take with enthusiasm. I live alone so winter means for me lots more time shut-up-by-myself in my apartment. A kinda lonely prospect.

I've been trying to think of ways to get OUT more often so as to ensure through this winter I maintain some sort of socia life. Last winter I think I nearly withered away in my apartment infront of monitor with only the warmth of the internet to keep me going.

Yeah.

That's not happening again. What I wish is that I could take off, go to south africa or something and hang out where it's warm. I've been feeling young again for awhile and I'm really in a mood to see the world again. I remeber for along time my wander lust had nearly entierly dissapeared, but now, now I feel it simmering deep, deep, deep down in my heart.

I'm getting used to using a MAC and I love it. I can't believe I was working on a PC all those years. Honestly, if your reading this and you have a chance- SWITCH. I promise you it's worth it. It will be a little inconveinet at first, but then once you get going with it you won't understand how you managed to get along on a PC all those years. I must also say that I feel more productive on the mac as well. I've got all my numbers in the address book and my mail and my calandar. So convenient! I'm really loving it.

I still need to work out how to organize all my photos- but you know. Step by step.

I think companies are going about Digital Photo management in all the wrong way. I understand that dealing with so many photos is a CPU intensive task, but they've got it all wrong. Data such as photographs is so intensive and comes in such volume that we need a new computer architecture to handle it. What we need is smart storage units. We need for our hard drives to catalogue our data for us. Not the computer. The computer has better things to be doing. The harddrives should have some sort of hard wired firmware to keep track of data. Or they should simply get even faster. What would be optimal is if everything could just be kept in RAM type memory so we wouldn't have to be slowed down by the bottleneck that exists between our awesome processors and enormous hard drives.