FoxBoom!

Since last night, MobileMe’s been pretty speedy. Could this be the end of the troubles? Am I terribly naive? When do I get my 30 day free credit?

Also, I’m posting this from the iPhone Wordpress app. This is a neat little interface!

Happy Friday everyone!

It’s official. MobileMe is Apple’s Vista.

Mail’s down. The website’s down. Everything’s fucking down. You can’t e-mail the support team anymore; you have to live chat, and…

MobileMe chat is available daily from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. central time (U.S.), except on holidays.

I don’t even know if any managers at Apple know or care.

The first trailer for “Caprica” is out!

Oh, goddamnit.

At the moment, I read Spirit’s calendar through BusySync, and he reads mine through iCal publishing to ical.me.com… and goddamnit again, I just realised he’ll only see my calendar changes if I launch iCal and let it sync.

This is all just one massive problem.

I was hoping to convince Spirit to sign up for MobileMe. With MobileMe being “Exchange for the rest of us”, I’d assumed calendar sharing would be built right in…

It isn’t.

And I’m all like, OMFG, no push calendar subscriptions?

So I just left some more feedback.

I got into MJ Hibbett and The Validators when I heard “Hey Hey 16k”. Anyway, “It Only Works Because You’re Here” just came out, and I like it!

Down the lane, they’re strolling two by two,
Holding hands, they smile like we used to do,
Here with their one and only,
I’d forgotten I was lonely,
Oh, how I wish that here were there with you.

All the days of sadness,
They seem so needless now,
Yes it’s taken me this long, long time,
To see, it’s clear.

And my dreams keep drifting back to me,
And our strolls beneath these same stars above,
And when the leaves are falling,
My heart will be recalling,
You’re the only girl I ever really loved.

I really, really wish I could buy that song somewhere…

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.

On my way home from work this afternoon, I was flicking through my contacts on my iPhone, when I noticed the little push spinner get to work in the title bar, and then…

All my contacts disappeared!

I figured I’d give the MobileMe servers a couple of minutes to sort themselves out. And, well…

…I’ve got names and birthdays, but no phone numbers or addresses.

HOLY FUCKING CRAP APPLE JUST REMOTE WIPED MY ADDRESS BOOK AND THIS IS AN AWESOME USER EXPERIENCE.

Selecting Automatic in Mac OS X allows your computer to immediately sync and update when there are any changes on the MobileMe servers. Those changes can come from your iPhone, iPod touch, the MobileMe website, or another computer. Changes made on your computer will be synced to the MobileMe “cloud” once every 15 minutes (or every hour in Mac OS X 10.4.11). [Apple KB article TS1155]

So yeah, don’t go editing any contacts or events right before you shut down your PC, because that change might not get pushed for a maximum of 15 minutes. The best bet seems to be to make changes through the MobileMe web apps or the iPhone.

In Nigel’s defence, it’s difficult to justify paying £7 to go to a movie theatre where people talk and kick your seat for 90 minutes.

I’ve seen some great movies at the cinema lately, but the experience stinks, and I’m just gonna quit going.

So I went to the support site to send an e-mail about resizing the mail columns in MobileMe, but this time there was an option to chat with a support agent instead.

So I did.

And man, it was by far the most positive support experience I’ve ever had out of Apple. Sarah might just be an anomoly, but I’m hoping she’s part of a whole new culture. Y’know, one that listens and understands and cares. Good God, please don’t let her be an anomoly.

But yeah, it turns out you can’t resize the columns. But I did get a link to the feedback form to see if I can get it fixed.

Since I’m just about to send my fourth support e-mail to the MobileMe team, I figured I’d keep track of them here.

First, I can’t find the option to use UK date formatting instead of US date formatting. Then I noticed my inbox wasn’t even in date order at all. Then I noticed the message count isn’t right. And just now, I realised the column resize grippers don’t do anything.

This is .Mac sucking cheese all over again.

Just when I thought the 2.0 software upgrade was working without a hitch… my iPhone’s playing The Polyphonic Spree instead of Meatloaf.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again… Apple’s technical support sucks.

SpiritRaptor has posted the RBW 2007 teaser trailer:

That was the first bit of work I’ve done for Saurian Studios (I edited 0:56 to 2:10), and I’ll be working for Saurian Studios on RBW’s media team later this year. Wave if you see me!

My Xbox has been repaired already, and it’s coming home!

“Clouds 3” by draigefydd

The Rift’s opening!

Wow, it took me exactly a month to get my ass in gear and send my Xbox in for repair.

“OMG HARDCORE” by Jon Eccleston

Don’t get too close! He’ll fuck you up!