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VICTORY IS MINE!

Fuck this shit.

The New Pornographers -- Together This is my favorite album of the last considerable while.

I'm sorry but the documentary evidence tends to suggest (puts on sunglasses) that it was a sausage fest. YEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH!

This is a weird one. The bugger booted perfectly out of the box and seems physically perfect (awesome display, no yellow tint, no dead pixels, diagnostics OK), but something clearly went awry in the migration process. I nuked the HD from orbit a second time, booted from the install DVD, repaired the startup disk and was finally able to get up and running. Now migrating again from a separate backup volume. Fingers crossed! BTW, this is my 4th iMac and first ever issue with going from one to another.

It's not over until the fat naked lady sings no longer displays her boobs as my wallpaper.

The fail, it is multilayered.

Won't boot from a clean install. I think that's game over.

Good news is it doesn't seem to be a hardware issue. Doing a clean install and if it boots OK after that then I'll sink the nine hours required into a full restore. Pray for mojo!

Yeah, I used Migration Assistant and it went fine. New Mac was working fine. When I restarted, though, it was White Screen Of Death. So far, managed to boot from install DVD and repair the startup volume -- but that didn't fix the issue. Now running the hardware test. Last resort will be a full reformat and restore from Time Machine, assuming it can see the external drive.

After migrating all my data over, now it won't boot! Faaaaaaaaaaark. Beginning troubleshooting process. If it's anything more than a disk issue, it'll have to go back for refund as the movers come Monday and it's a little big to fit in hand luggage!

I see an iPad 2 with giant Retina Display, FaceTime capacity and 4G connectivity. Me buy.

Plug in headphones, plug in amp, turn on, enjoy!

Teenage Fanclub -- Shadows

I already told Gene I am not going to yank his crank, but he is certainly persistent. What was it with Reks and the face-sucking at CanJam? Salt depletion?

Mine came last night. Planning on migrating everything over this afternoon then repacking for transit down South next week. May run a few benchmarks just for fun!

Currently becoming a US citizen beneath the somewhat stony gazes of Washington and Lincoln in Mechanics Hall in Worcester. Thanks for having me and, obviously, we're number one!

I'm gay for Head Case. I love you all.

Gah. Anyone traveling to France after June 24? As I recall, by law they have to sell fully unlocked versions of any handset available on contract there.

Well, he said iAds are live July 1 for "all iOS devices". That strongly implies the iPad will have joined the party by then. Anyone catch whether South Africa was in the July rollout batch of countries for the new iPhone? I'll never make it to August! Homina homina.

Sorry, you're stuck with AT&T.

No moar pixels for you, then!

I want my iPhone4!

I'm suddenly eligible to upgrade on AT&T. Previous date was November sometime.

Billy Bragg -- Back To Basics