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It’s that day in the year again. I’ve just turned 22 and it feels… um, the same? Actually I’m a bit disappointed with myself. For the past year I’ve done practically nothing and I really hate that.

So I decided that I’m gonna make a change. From now on I’ll stop being the procrastinator I’ve become and get a grip on my life. I’ve got some stuff planed to make sure it goes in the right way.

So, I guess happy birthday to me, eh? :)

I’ve just got home from the movie theater, after a showing of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.

I must say, I was quite afraid to go see the third (final ?) film since the Spider-man fiasco. I thought they would screw this one up also (as they often tend to do with 3rd installments).

But to my surprise, the movie surpassed my expectations. It was a really enjoyable, fun movie, with a fairly complex story and great (nicely developed) characters. It was just as good as the first two (if not even better) and there were plenty of LOL moments (basically, you have to laugh every time you see Jack on screen). The actors did a great job (especially Johnny Depp - he plays Jack Sparrow so perfectly…). Also, the cinematography and effects were great, and …

Actually, the whole thing was great, and I strongly recommend it to everybody (but, you need to see the other two parts first).

I stumbled upon a cool app today, and I decided to check it out. It’s called Disk Inventory X.

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called “treemaps“.

If you’ve ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.

I ran it on my HD and it is quite interesting to see such a graphical representation of the disk space being used by different types of files.

My HD really looks like a mess. And, I had no idea I that Documents are taking up so much space. I haven’t really tried it out much more yet, but I’m planning to. Seems like a fun way to keep control over your HD.

Yesterday I got my iMac back from my sister, who had it for a while, until she didn’t buy her own computer (yea, I’m a good brother, to lend it to her). So today I decided to clean it up and set it up nice and fresh.

I never installed OS X before (always installed Windows) so I really had no idea how the installation was gonna go. But anyways, I figured I should just get right into it.

I inserted the installation disc and clicked the button to install. The system restarted, greeted me and made me choose the primary language. After that it asked me what kind of install I wanted (upgrade, clean+ keep settings or an completely clean install). I decided on making a clean install, since I had planned to do that anyway and had backed up all my files before.

After that, everything happened automatically. The files were copied and the system installed. That kinda took a while since it had to copy a shitton of files, but still didn’t take all that long.

After that I got offered to either copy all user settings, applications and files from another Mac via FireWire or set it all up from scratch. I did it from scratch. After entering personal data and setting the password, I was done. It was all done. No scouting around for drivers, messing around with various network settings, no nothing. It was actually quite boring, when I think about it. But I guess I really should have expect that, since, well, it’s a Mac.

So the system got set up from scratch in a little more than an hour and no effort was needed. The most work I had to do was deciding on the install type. I’d love to be the “computer guy” so much more, if people around me would use Macs.