So I'm working currently on revamping my site, and adding more information - and the slideshows right off the main page. I've changed my branding and logotype a little so I'm re-branding everything right now, and am having a whole swag of business cards printed up in the next day or so. It's fun to re-design everything, and until I completley re-build my site in Flash - this will be it.

Apart from that my new/replacement MacBook Pro is running just dandy - and I'm editing ALL my stuff on it now and using it full time for everything now. I kinda don't have much choice :( but I'm ok with that! Anyway - the switch has been awesome, and I love working on my Mac, to be honest I love my MBP.... I love it so much that I just HAD to get one of these bad boys for it....

So I'm a little display greedy, as whilst I do have both a Dell 24" widescreen and Dell 20" 4:3 LCD with total screen real estate of 3520x1200 spanned across both of them - I couldn't pass up on the opportunity to grab this Apple Cinema HD 30-inch widescreen display - at a real bargain. This screen is breathtaking, and viewing images on it is awesome. Viewing proofs, prints and album layouts at the actual size is perfect.... I love it..
It is of course also, and EXCELLENT screen to watch DVD's, and trailers on... Front row is really addictive and for the second time in a week - I've shown off my Mac, with the trailers screen of front-row, accessing it all via the remote.... It's Sooooo cool.

Anyway so the Dell might be relegated to a TV - cause you can pretty much plug anything into that bad boy. I think its funny that I'd be happy with my TV being smaller than my computer - but hey, geek it up!!

Anyway - 'nuff for now... Later!

So starting off with some good news!!! I'm booked in for a wedding for March 10th, 2007.. Woo hoo!!
I met with the lovely couple a few weekends ago - and they are a great pair! Well I'd met the bride to be many, many years ago... Katie's my cousin :) However I'd not met her fiance Rob before. So my girlfriend and I drove up the coast to meet them, and we had a great meeting and a spot of lunch... I'd heard a few months ago that Katie had gotten engaged, she'd heard I was a wedding photographer and wanted to meet up.... It took us that long to match our schedules! So we had a great meeting and Katie and Rob like what I do, and I've booked them in....
We'll be meeting up soon to do a relaxed engagment shoot and talk more about what they want to do with the wedding.

More good news... My new replacement MacBook Pro was delivered yesterday! I cracked the box the other night and it seems that it is not a victim of the dreaded squeal! It is running like a dream and is all good - need more RAM - so that's coming soon too!!


Now the bad news... I was typing away on my Dell laptop last week, got a call from my lovely girl, and put the laptop aside... We finished talking, and I got up to put the phone on the hook - pulling the laptop by its cord to the edge of the couch!! I turned and it was all in slow motion... The laptop slipped slowly off the edge of the couch and creeped ever so slowly toward the floor... a concrete tiled floor... It hit the tiles with a massive clatter and I was like "OMG OMG OMG!!!" (all my current work and mail is on there after transferring it across from my first MBP). I put the phone on the hook, and then tended to the laptop - it was still running (woo hoo. So I shut it down and went to bed - got hone from work today, cooked dinner and booted up my Dell... Well kinda booted... it was just loading and loading and loading on the XP screen.... Nothing... Safe mode... loaded... kinda.... ALL GONE.. :(

I stuck the drive in a USB2 caddy and - it really is the worst kind of news... It's literally all gone... Well you can see it - but copying it off? Nope - CRC error heave.. Sooooo sad...

Anyway so not a massive amount of crucial information on there - which is lucky as...

Cheers!