Setting up house

So, here we are.

It’s been exactly one week since the day of The Unboxing of my shiny Macbook Pro, which was the amazingly generous surprise birthday gift from a bunch of family and friends. The machine now has a name (Ariadne – yes, I’m in an Inception-fandom phase), two user profiles (one with admin privileges and one without), a desktop wallpaper,  and some new software installed.

I still don’t really have a handle on it, though, and particularly, I’m still not operational for editing/publishing text, editing/indexing pictures, password management & other logistical issues, and even, to my great dismay, browsing.

This might be because I’ve made the mistake of trying to start anew completely, from scratch, and have thus scorned a Firefox installation (I’m a long time Firefox user, the sort with many favorite extensions) in favor of a clean start with Safari.

I’m starting to realize that Safari, and my inefficience at it, is driving me bonkers. So that might change soon.

Soon to come to a post near you: lists of problems encoutered, flaily questions I asked Twitter, soft I downloaded but I’m not sure I want to install, soft I installed but I’m not sure I want to keep, and deep existential writhing about the necessity (or lack thereof) of installing Quicksilver.

But first, let me see how this plugin handles the crossposting to Dreamwith. :)

 

3 Comments.

  1. Don’t tell anybody I said that, but Safari kinda sucks ^_^

    Quicksilver… Well… I used to love it, but now I just use Spotlight as a launcher.
    Once you get used to cmd+space, it simply works.
    Of course Quicksilver is supposed to be much more than a simple launcher, but I never used it for more, so, well…

    I’m curious about the apps you’ve already adopted :-)

  2. Ooooh shiny. A blog!
    So, I’m actually excited to see what else goes here.
    Question though, what plug-in are you using to crosspost?

    • I’m using Journalpress, which seems to work like a dream so far. I can even choose the icon I want the crosspost to have. I’m crossposting to Dreamwidth from this blog, and then Dreamwidth handles the crosspost to LJ as it always does (I set it up to do that by default). When/if I edit the post here, I can choose to have the Dth xpost be edited too, and if I do, of course, Dth will in turn handle the edit of the LJ xpost. Cascading blogs! I love it.