I’ve kinda moved into my new place - bed base is still to be delivered (sometime this week apparently) - so I have a mattress to sleep on currently. The couch for the lounge is still being made, and will only be ready in about 3 weeks. Coffee table… haven’t found a good one yet, hopefully there’s no delivery time on it when I find one.

IBurst is pretty cool, quite fast, although latency isn’t great obviously. It has gone down a couple times, and has some issues with mail for some reason. It seems that there is no through-connection from IBurst to my work mail server, and both ISP and mail host say it’s not them (IBurst has also stopped replying to my support tickets) - so for now I have to tunnel the connection over SSH through a server in Germany. IBurst also insists you use their SMTP server (transparent proxying and stuff apparently) - which is fairly annoying.

My laptop is cool, although the keyboard not so much - I definitely prefer a full-size keyboard, but I am getting used to it. OS X has some “interesting” design flaws; Finder (the file manager) has no option to Cut a file, and also no ability to apply a standardised set up across all your file windows (e.g. Sort by folders first, then files, and display in a list view). Grrr. I’m looking at alternatives, XFolders is free and quite cool, but does lack a certain polish. PathFinder is $30 or something, but I haven’t tried the demo out. Cyberduck is a free FTP app which is quite nice, but Panic’s Transmit looks like it is worth paying for. Textmate is a cool editor which I’ve already paid for, and I must still check out BBEdit 2, which has a scary cult following.