Sadie Not So Sexy

Don't it figure? It's always when you're really carried away with your work and you're really getting into it that the program reminds you that you haven't saved in a while by crashing and taking away your work. In this case, I was working in a music sequencing program, working on the music for a cover song that's going to be on my album, when the program crashed and took three hours of work with it. That's the chorus, the whole second verse, and a whole bunch of tweaking that went into it. The rare times stuff like this happens, I take it as a sign that I was going down the wrong road but still, this is particularly annoying. In face, I'm just gonna leave it alone for now and go watch a movie.

For those that missed it, here's the first of many videos captured the night of April 27, a historic occasion indeed.



Now, I would like to say a few words about my new computer. I have one week ago, I treated myself to a shiny new MacBook. Now I'm not one to be all product-placement in my blog posts, but this thing really is the bee's knees. Your whole life changes when you can check your e-mail from bed. Everything runs fast, I find the Mac environment to be much more intuitive, and all the good ideas Windows implements are things that Mac has had for ages. Like stuff that I would never have even been able to conceive of that now I can't understand how I ever lived without: Dashboard, Expose, the thing that lets you see all of your open applications. This is stuff that you could never have even explained to me when I was a PC guy.

I even went out and bought the wireless Mighty Mouse mostly because I hate the trackpad on the computer itself. But I was delighted to find out all of the crazy things you can do with it that you can't do with a regular mouse. It becomes part of your experience of the computer more than just a way to get around the screen.

I also highly recommend the One to One membership. For $99 you can you to the Apple Store for one-hour personal training sessions. You get up to 52 of them (the idea is that you go once a week) and I've already been twice. $99 for 52 hours of personal training is a pretty good deal.

The best thing about all this is the way my work is more mobile now. It's only been a week and already my relationship to my work has changed. If I get a whole bunch of ideas in my head as I drift off to sleep that I want to bring up with one of the producers, I just reach out for my computer and punch them in right there instead of getting up to go do it at the computer.

But most exciting for me is the doors that open up in terms of my live performance. Before, it has always been a big chore of arranging to get the files to the DJ, or the headache of making sure there's a working CD player at the venue or some other such nonsense. Now I've got little Maccie who shall go with me to every show and plug into the system for problem- and complication-free backing track action.

I'm just rambling here, but the gist of it is that I am very excited to be on the Mac side of things now, and the suggestion from the commercials really is a good one: if you're upgrading to Vista, just get a Mac.