In other news, I fell off my bike again whilst trying to do a very foolish maneuver, that, in retrospect, was incredibly stupid of me even to attempt, considering the fact that my bike is still sans any kind of braking mechanism. The irony with my bike "accidents" is that there have been two of them and no other person been involved in either. It would seem that I have voluntarily thrust myself twice from the seat of my bike on to the ground for some sort of masochistic pleasure. Not so. However, this time the entire process caused me much less physical hurt and injury. In fact, the most major wound inflicted upon me was on my hand and it refused to cause me any pain until I washed it in warm water whence it finally succumbed to instinct and caused me a decent amount of discomfort. Then I applied a Band-Aid on to said wound and remembered how one of my friends had once described my Band-Aids (since they're the Made-in-India sort) as "ghetto" compared to the kind sold in the United States. Hopscotch, I said! All in all, a lot better than the last time when I scraped my knee on the road and it was all bloody and most painful. It also took a whole three weeks to heal, not to mention the fact that it completely disabled me from the act of kneeling which I found was quite inconvenient.

However, my trials with biking were not intended to be the main emphasis of this particular piece. What I meant to convey was that I sold my iMac successfully yesterday to some lucky guy who's going to be hard pressed to have as much or more fun with it than I did because I did have a lot of fun with that computer and it was very dear to me. The good part of the deal is that I recovered a fair amount of money from the deal and that I will have enough cash to get myself a new notebook in September. Here's hoping Apple does something with that "Merom" chip by Intel. I do want to buy a computer that's a laptop and also kicks rears at the same time.

Now, I am left with a 1GB RAM chip to sell. I guess I'll put that up on craigslist as well. Also, an Apple Wireless Keyboard.

Anyway, I have some mildly good news for readers running older Apple notebooks, such as G4s. In the 10.4.7 update, Apple has added a feature which allows all older iBooks and PowerBooks to do two-finger scrolling - even this 2003 iBook which the Libraries have gratiously lent me. Two-finger scrolling, as we all know, is cool and useful. However, in addition to two-finger scrolling paradise, you are also permitted to put-two-fingers-on-the-trackpad -and-click which achieves the same result as clicking Mouse Button 2, otherwise known as the elusive right-click. Brilliant. Now I no longer need to use a hack such as iScroll2.

UPDATE: I was quite wrong in writing the above paragraph. It appears that I mistakenly thought Apple had added the feature because the option to enable two-finger scrolling appeared in the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane. However, when I uninstalled iScroll2 and restarted the computer, I noticed that both the option from the preference pane as well as the two-finger functionality was missing. Sorely disappointed, I reinstalled iScroll2 and am now back to two-finger scrolling glory. Also, I regret calling iScroll2 a 'hack'. The term seems somewhat derogatory…

Meanwhile, I cannot seem to figure out whether it's appropriate to keep a bunch of bananas in the refrigerator or not, considering that the average temperature in this place is currently 25ºC. The mind boggles.

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