Head Tale

If you visit this blog in person (and why would you in the age of RSS?), you'll see that I've installed the Mac-daddy version of last.fm so you can once again track when I am listening to embarrassing music from my high school days.

I admit that the learning curve on the Mac is a bit larger than I expected – this is partly due to lack of time to just straight out devote to learning stuff (As an example, Pace just filled his dump truck with some rice puff snacks.  And has now dumped it all over our living room floor.) 

So here are some of the latest questions I need to resolve:
– is it possible to cut & paste files on a Mac or can you only copy them then delete the original?
– where does iPhoto store the photos you download?  Are they stored in a proprietary format so that you can't go in and muck about with the originals (ie. renaming the files and directories they're in)?  Is it true that iPhoto makes a copy of every single photo for its index or did I mis-read something somewhere?
– how do you create the equivalent of a Windows shortcut to a specific directory or file? 
– does anyone know a program that will open password protected WordPerfect 8.0 files?  (Didn't think so…)

I've still got a desktop Windows XP machine I bought for cheap from Southeast Regional Library when they were clearing out some old machines so I can still get at those old WP files and still play EA NHL 2000.  So it's not like I'm totally cut-off.  Anybody have any experience with Parallels or any other software to run Windows programs on a Mac?  Recommendations?

Anyhow, that's it for now.  Later…