Several of my apps keep crashing. Particularly nastily is the fact that Mail.app is crashing every time I update the junk mail status of a message. Most annoying. All the crashes seem to be an invalid memory error:
Grumble. Having updated to Mac OS X 10.3.2 I can report that Mail.app still crashes every time I change something's junk mail status. Which means I probably ought to do a total backup and reinstall. Which means I need an external hard disk. Which means... hang on... it means an excuse to buy an iPod. Maybe things aren't so bad after all.
Note: When I started writing this I abandoned the list format I was going to use and it rapidly turned into a morass, so I thought it should probably become several sensible posts instead. This first post has been returned to its conceived state: a simple list.
Part two of an ongoing series about how Apple's music products really annoy me.
Ah, the joys of being an iPod owner. Lately my iPod has taken to hanging once every couple of days, requiring a menu/play-pause reset to bring it out of its sulk. It's also taken to bouts of extreme whimsy, jumping out of one album into another mid-song, often only managing one or two tracks before it leaps again.
My BT line has been down for 8 days now, and my email server lives in my flat at the end of an ADSL connection (from the lovely bytemark). Therefore emails you have sent me have not been received. As of the middle of last week I have a backup MX storing mails which I will be able to collect when ADSL returns. Emails between last sunday and last wednesday may well have vanished into the ether.
British Gas supply the gas to our lovely new flat (where by 'lovely' I mean 'building site'), via a pre-payment meter. This would be all well and good, except that tying a meter to a new pre-payment card so that a new customer (i.e. us) can use it requires a physical meter reset to be performed by an engineer. And not any old engineer, no. In fact, not even a British Gas engineer. Gas meters require a National Grid (née Transco) engineer to reset them. National Grid is the third-party supplier of gas infrastructure to British Gas.