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Okay, although I didn’t have access to a camera during the unpacking ritual (hence the phonecam shots on my moblog) I’ve now got Tranquility in something resembling a decent order, so here are a few snaps of the latest light of my life:
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I don’t really believe it.

I’m writing this in ecto, on my still-shiny iMac G5. I’ve spent today partitioning, installing and transferring.

World – Tranquility. Tranquility – World.

TNT assures me that Tranquility will arrive tomorrow, and I’ve left instructions as to how she should be delivered to the middle of nowhere.

This should, therefore, be my last night without OS X – it’s taken six weeks so I can wait a few more hours. Just about.

Ever since Ginger – my trusty flip-top laptop who’s been everywhere with me for the past six years – went terribly wrong last November I’ve had my sights set on a new machine. Despite the fact that a wintel box would be really useful for all sorts of lighting-relevant software, not to mention ridiculously cheaper, there wasn’t much chance of me throwing away my membership card of the Apple Faithful. Add in the recent massive surges in malware, viri and security holes that frequent Redmond software and it was a done deal.

It was only a matter of when, what and how much.
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In a couple of hours, I’ll be twenty five years old. This is very exciting, not only because it’s that birthday where my age is the same as the day it falls on (there’s a term for that but I’ve forgotten what) but because it rather neatly marks off the first major chunk of my life.
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moblog.co.uk, the thinking person’s phonecam site, is running a competition which I think presents some rather interesting points about the nature of the artform.
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Simon and co. from IRAD came along to Bretton to show off the latest version of their media server. This is apparently something of a growing market with everybody and his dog wanting to use video and still projection in anything and everything. I’ve done enough work with projection to know that running it from consumer hardware isn’t much fun – IRAD were here to propose their alternative.
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