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I have this typical habit of giving my HD a personal name, and mostly I give it the code-name of the machine or a name from one of my favorite TV series etc. My new Apple PowerBook 17” is called Hammerhead, its actual code-name. Don’t they all have cool code-names? Take “Dark Star” for instance code-name for an Xserve G5, or the original PowerMac G4 was called Yikes! Here is full list for your inspiration ;-)

These are some of the names we use: Hammerhead, Dark Angel, our Airport Extreme is called SD6 (not that we’re bad...but SD6 is the bad alliance in the stunning TV series Alias), ... We always change its icon too, another habit I guess ;-)

So now I’m wondering if I’m alone in this. And is this only a Mac thing? Please post how yours is called and free me of this bugging curiosity :-D

Saturday I had a meeting with Kenneth our PHP wizard. As we were discussing projects a thought that invaded my mind was the funny Apple commercial when they introduced the 17” and 12” PowerBook.  And so we decided to make this picture. I guess this says it all… except that I’m “rather” small compared to Kenneth instead of very small as in the commercial.

Kenneth told me that he would have lost his sanity if I didn’t introduce the Mac to him. It made his life so much easier, certainly Mac OS X because it’s all Unix based now. So this prooves that the programmer geeks love it too ;-)

Speaking of geeky, here is a nice tool that executes PHP while writing it. It can do much more such as trying out CSS, creating a whole website etc. It’s called HyperEdit. This brings me to the question of some friends asking me if I know of a place where you can find some old and new commercials from Apple. So here is an archive

2 of my favorites:

• iMac window
• Cute iPodrace with some StarWars fantasy. ( 8.8M)

Another archive of Apple commercials:

• The Apple Collection QuickTime Movies

Hope you like what you see ;-)

Keith told me:

• 1. Go into your blog's archives.
• 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
• 3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
• 4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

From Purple frog delights scientists a post on October 28th 2003:

"Scientists have given it the name Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis, from the Sanskrit
word for nose (nasika); batrachus, meaning frog; and Sahyadri, the name for its
mountain home"

If you like icons like me and are a big fan of the Matrix this is something for you. To celebrate the North American DVD release of Matrix Revolutions, the Iconfactory has released Matrix Rebooted.

Matrix Rebooted is a wonderful tribute to the movie trilogy from the Wachowski brothers and contains over 90 individual icons that can be used as a complete system replacement set for your desktop. Users of the popular system icon customization utility, CandyBar will be happy to learn that Matrix Rebooted comes complete as a CandyBar iContainer that can replace all of your system icons in a single click. But that’s not all, the set contains alternate versions so CandyBar users can mix and match to their heart’s content.

This icons are available for MacOS X and Windows.

It has been a wile since I last posted a game. With the weekend fast approaching the ideal time-killer. Looks like I am starting to specialize in those Yeti games ;-)

The first installment was Penguin Throw and was great fun, the second one Orca Slap was not bad but not as much fun as the original. You guessed it, here is part III: Seal Bounce! You have to throw the penguin in the sky and aim it so that with a bit of luck the seals make it fly even higher. Its simplicity and humorous approach make it a hit. In case you’re wondering my best throw was 299.61 and my overall score was 1205.6. Do tell if your hand-eye coordination is any better ;-)

Go play Seal Bounce.