Congratulations Sofie and Steve!

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Almost exactly twelve years ago (November 20, 1999, to be exact) Sofie Cremer was walking down the aisle. She, with most of her cousins, was leading the bridal party into the chuch when Brenda and I were married. I’ve been frantically looking for a good photo of the procession, but this is the best I could come up with. The group shot is better!

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Today, Sofie is walking down the aisle again, this time for her own wedding. Amazing how things change in twelve years.

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Blogsy 3.0

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Last week the kind folk at Posterous were nice enough to gift me a freebie of Blogsy, an iPad blogging app. It has some neat features, such as integration with Flickr and Picasa Web Albums, and being able to drag and drop images and links from other sites. WordPress and Blogger have been supported since way back, with Posterous support being added recently. 
There was a bit of a learning curve – the app has what they call the “rich” side and the “write” side. It took me a little while to work out that I couldn’t actually enter text on the “rich” side; you had to swipe over to the other view, enter your text there, then head back to the “rich” side for formatting, etc.

 

Version 3 has just appeared in my software updates, and thankfully it has fixed all that – text can now be entered on either view, so for most users there’s probably no need to change views. The authors obviously feel the same way, because they’ve changed the swipe action to three fingers.

It’s not perfect – I noticed that there are are some issues with the text entry window not scrolling as I type (not a big deal, you can just swipe up or down, but I’m lazy!), and the URL entry box popped up half off the edge of the screen.

Overall though, it’s not bad. Check out the web site, they have a bunch of videos that give a good overview of the app in operation. (Of course, the ability to get an eval app or a refund would be even better, but that’s a different issue altogether!)

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MacTech benchmarks Parallels and VMware Fusion | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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The 2011 MacTech Conference starts up here in Los Angeles today, and TUAW will have reports and interviews live from the conference all week. Before things begin, however, MacTech has been busy benchmarking (as usual). Its latest benchmarking showdown features virtualization software options Parallels and VMWare Fusion. Both apps were tested under Windows 7 and, as with previous tests, Parallels stacked up quite well. Of the top tests, says MacTech, Parallels won 60% by a factor of 10% or more, and Parallels Desktop 7 beat VMWare Fusion in nearly 75% of the tests run.

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Interesting results on the Parallels vs VMware Fusion testing.

I own both. My own fairly casual testing agrees for the most part; Parallels is quicker. That said, I’m pretty hard pressed to notice any real difference with the workloads I’m typically running.

However, it’s more important for me to be able to grab the virtual machine and move it to another host, be it running OS X, Windows, or VMware’s own ESX hypervisor – that compatibility is more important than raw performance to me.

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Disk prices double after flood – and could ‘double again’ • Channel Register

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Hard disk prices doubled in the past fortnight following the severe flooding in Thailand and could potentially rise by the same amount again, channel sources have warned.

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D’oh! While we could all see this coming (and hard drives won’t be the only things impacted) I hate it when trends reverse and prices go up.

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