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Yawn
Well I haven't blogged forever.
Here's what I've been doing instead:
Finshed exams last week.
Carlo came back from Europe.
Organising Accomm and flights and the money to go to Sydney for a Cocoa Workshop and to San Fran for WWDC.
Thinking about how great Karaoke would be as a Mac application.

I'll just take this space to throw a rant out into the ether about how how insidious mySpace UI is. The concept is --- *gulp* --- good. A place for the average person to pop whatever they like up without having to write much, and then to easily network with other people. Even the music feature is admittedly fun because it adds a lot of character to the page.
But please - you should never have to scroll SIDEWAYS on a web page! And I don't want to have to squint to read your text against a full screen image of Paris Hilton as a background image. And all that guff adds up to such a load on my browser and bandwidth that I'm loath to even bother with the whole thing.
It's like mySpace web design has been wholly inspired by what was online in the 1990's - flickerry .gifs, scrolling texts, 'email me' buttons, midi files, and unreadable backgrounds.
I just don't understand!