you said it yourself
Download this,
now.
Attention Department
employees, the Public Misconception devision wish to clarify that the term
“Finder’s Keepers” is
not - in
fact - legally binding. And that if you find something in somebody else’s house
(even whilst wearing a balaclava and whispering “sit nice doggy sit”) it is
not
yours and you are not its
Keeper.However, Losers will retain
their status as Weepers.
A quick how-to for my Mac friends on removing the
“Developer” folder from your Macintosh
HD. Developer Tools are a freely included set
of apps that in theory allow any Mac owner to build programs from ground up. Not
crappy one button, random number generating, timers and clocks (the sort of
thing you’ll learn to do in a year or so at C++) but real applications - its an
optional instal, but if your like me and new to OS X (well, 10.4) maybe you
installed it by accident (or by curiosity) and have little use for
it.How to uninstall Developer
tools…
1. Open Terminal (in your Applications/Utilities folder)
2. Type (copy/paste) the following: sudo /Developer/Tools/uninstall-devtools.pl
3. There is no step 3.
It took me a while to work that out - on Macintosh to delete an application you usually just drag
the icon into the Trash…. heh - I’ve spent a week on a Windows machine and
dear me, can you believe “Add / Remove Programs”… so I did a Google and found
very little. Apple have hidden the script in your Tools folder, but Terminal.app
sorts things out - do a sudo to initiate root access. Sounds good? You’ll free
up around 1GB.
Do
a Google for “UPS Sucks” or the like and you’ll find millions of angry posts,
add me to the list. Not receiving things - or knowing that your not receiving
seems to be the commercialist’s equivalent of Purgatory.
Although
it is not modern man’s soul that wanders aimlessly, in these days of up to the
minute GPS enabled tracking, its my PSP or your iPod, that guy’s
Powerbook. We poor sods who place orders in the dead of night, fingers
crossed with a glimmer of hope Amazon (who also suck) will live up to “next day
delivery” or “item available within 24 hours” are destined to screaming down the
phone at automated answer systems or spamming employee’s mailboxes with
expletives and exaggerations of
need.And who’s really to blame? lousy
estimated delivery times and broken-down delivery trucks aside, Tracking is the
killer. Knowing exactly where your precious is - knowing that you’ve paid and
some jerk in the ‘Sunnyvale’ depot has fucked-up so you won’t be getting
anything in the post tomorrow, probably not the next day either pisses
people off.
In my situation it was
imperative the two-day postage I paid for worked. On Monday evening I ordered a
PSP from Amazon.com - it was to be shipped to Quincy in San Francisco for
Wednesday (you’d imagine), on Wednesday morning Amazon were hoping I wasn’t
inconvenienced by a delayed shipment (oh, they also promised me the item was
available “within 24 hours”). I contacted the help department and explained my
sorry tale, it took them 24 hours to reply - but someone got on it and gave me a
tracking number (I wish they hadn’t) and an explanation that the Amazon computer
was telling lies (on my order of Tiger 10.4 from Amazon.co.uk months ago they
told me the same thing, idiots). Tracking number in hand I went to UPS and saw
my item was in transit - things were in fact in operation (one day delay doesn’t
panic me!).Cut a long story short,
they messed up - and no one could really help me - UPS could not decipher the
PRINTED address form and misdelivered the item on Thursday, by Friday they had
contacted Amazon and confirmed the correct address - an evening drop off was
arranged. No joy, Saturday - the Receiver had “moved”. All lies- Quincy is
staying with friends who I would imagine have a post box for the delivery of
mail, or at least a UPS calling card.
Anyway.
THE RECEIVER HAS
MOVED.UPS ATTEMPTING TO LOCATE RECEIVER
TO COMPLETE DELIVERY,
NO DELIVERY WAS
MADE
This makes me sad, of course knowing JQM is on his way home (with 20+ hours of Monty Python) makes up for it. Hoorah!
Shownotes:For
“The Fourth”. Released on the 06/08/05. 
&
or 
? Turning Japanese by The
Vapors
? SoundScenes (website)
? Podzilla (website)
? Will’s Mic (website)
? New Feed (podcast)
Continue reading ‘Podcast: The Fourth’
I’m
a geek, right. Got to keep your nose above technology or it will leave us behind
- for the better / worse who cares - I let mobile phones pass me right by… I
see how important (for a year or so) the G3 technology was, not for a second did
I believe disgusting dial-up quality video was progressive or useful - but it
happened and for a moment people understood something new, money was spent and
made(?). Businessmen, school children and grandmothers were wrapped up in
something exciting (over-hyped) and new but they were moved to upgrade and
to.
