Hello everyone. Life, the universe, my computer and internet are changing... I'm buying a new Mac - it should be here any day now. At the same time, I am attempting to deal with 'the elephant in the room': the closure of Apple's 'MobileMe' service at the end of June and its replacement by a service (iCloud) which will not offer the same functionality - not least, I won't be able to use it to host my website.
I am almost certainly moving over to an equivalent service to MobileMe, but provided by my own ISP, MacAce: MacMate. Once I've signed up and got things sorted out, I'll post the new address here. These pages will remain here as long as MobileMe/iCloud continue to host my site. My old site though, will probably disappear for good - it was made with iWeb, and I can't get that to work, so publishing it afresh on the new server probably won't be possible (though I'll try!). So if there's anything you want to see - you've probably got until the end of June to see it!
I've had a few quiet days, as far as progress with wargaming is concerned. I'd been working away on laying out A2A, but ordering the new iMac meant that I felt I ought to take a break and 'sort out' the hard drive on this machine so that, once it arrived, I'd be ready to migrate all our stuff over to the new machine. Lots of time spent sorting through directories, deleting old emails, and other 'housekeeping' tasks have reduced the amount of 'stuff' which will have to be transferred by about a third - which ought also to reduce the time migration takes. Migrating between Macs is (or ought to be) a largely automated process - connect the two together, via FireWire 800, Ethernet or WiFi, fire 'em up and tell the new one where to find the 'stuff' and then twiddle one's thumbs. Let's hope theory and practice coincide for once!
I'm just about to start work again on A2A. I have to confess to slight nervousness, because once the new machine arrives, I shall be starting to use Adobe Indesign CS5.5 instead of CS2 (on which all the work up to now has been done). Let's hope the files transfer seamlessly to the new version... Or at least better than they did when moving from the PC version of Pagemaker 6.5 to the Mac version of Indesign CS2!