K’s Weblog

Those of you in the Vancouver area can participate in the fight against breast cancer by donating to and/or participating in the 2006 Run for the Cure.  Rebecca over at Miss604 is collecting donations for the run which she and her husband are participating in this Sunday.
On a related note TELUS‘ national Day of Service [...]

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I was messing around with the new MacBook last night and decided to take a shot at playing with GarageBand, Apple’s music mixing & recording program that ships with iLife ‘06. At first glance GarageBand appears to be a fairly basic mixing program, allowing you to take samples and loops from its (relatively small) [...]

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Well its been a few days now using the new MacBook, and this is the first Blog post using said MacBook. As I mentioned in the last post, the look and feel of OS X is unbelievably polished. The transitions between windows, screen savers and other views (like Front Row) are seamless and [...]

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Well the beast finally arrived! I’d like to think it was my scathing review of Apple’s customer service from earlier this month, but I highly doubt that Steve Jobs is an avid reader.
Well having had the chance to play with this new machine for only a couple of hours, I have to say I’m [...]

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Though I’m super-excited about my new MacBook I can’t say I’m very impressed with Apple’s honesty with regards to shipping dates.
Their website advertises a shipping date of 5-7 business days.  When I ordered the laptop they gave me a shipping date 8 days out.  I could understand that being back-to-school time and all, but on [...]

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