One of the more interesting things about moving from the west coast of Canada to the east coast of Australia is the who day things. Once the day reaches Vancouver, pretty much everyone else (except Hawaii and maybe parts of Alaska) have had their way with it. It’s old and tired. On the other hand, the east coast of Australia is one of the first places to get a new day (only New Zealand and some little islands in the Pacific are before us). So we’ll be among the first to get 2007. If you’re at all curious, gentle reader, to find out what 2007 is like, you’re welcome to ring me.

One of the side-effects to getting the new year before most of the rest of the planet is the fact that we’re getting rid of the old one before most of the rest of the planet, too. Today here is New Year’s Eve, so the newspaper is full of these best-of and year wrap-up stories. In fine form, the team from The Chaser has a column in The Age where they do their own year-in-review. Funny stuff. Odd that it doesn’t mention the times that members of their troupe got arrested…

The Intel-based Macs have a new “feature” called “safe sleep”. On the Windows side, it’s called “hibernate”. Basically, it writes the contents of memory to the hard drive when you ask the computer to go to sleep. This takes time. Previously, Macs would just keep the contents of memory in memory and use a bit of battery power to keep it in there. This delay before actual sleep annoyed me, because I sleep my laptop all the time when I bring it to work and back on a daily basis. Waiting for the hard drive to finish doing its thing was annoying; and I’d frequently forget to wait because I’ve never had to before. So I found a command to disable this “safe” sleep thing:

sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

Voilà. The linked page comes at it from a security standpoint, but I’m not as paranoid as they are.

Where have I been? Well, if you have one of those new Core 2 Duo based MacBook Pros, don’t press ctrl-option-apple-], because that activates the “time-warp” hidden feature, which jets you about a month into the future. Me, I found this one out the hard way. Interestingly, while my fingernails didn’t grow at all, I’ve got lots more facial hair, and I seem to have acquired a tail. It’s pretty handy though, I can hang shopping bags on it when I go to market.

But that’s not why I’m writing now, gentle reader. I’m writing because I have something to tell you. In spite of my apparent rampant geekiness, (deep breath here) I have never owned a game console. Never. Never ever. I don’t really like them very much, to be honest. I don’t know if it’s the solitary uncommunicative nature of most of the high profile games, or what, but playing games on a TV just has never appealed to me (except that VHS-based version of Clue, which I reallyreally wanted for something like my 12th birthday).

But now I want a Wii.

The games look fun. Silly, even. This seems to be the game console for people who like The Muppet Show. You can keep your PS3s and Xboxen, there’s really nothing there that I’m interested in (except maybe one thing ). The review I just read in Slashdot actually made me laugh out loud for real, not in some kiddie-in-MSN “lol” kind of way. I just hope it lives up to the Revolution-ary hype.