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I’m currently holding in my grubby paws a few tickets for the Red Hot Chili Peppers gig in Earl’s Court in a few weeks. I’m so excited, I haven’t been to a live gig in ages.

Back in the old days, when being a student allowed me ridiculous amounts of freedom, I’d go to random gigs and festivals all the time and I loved it. I’ve seen the Chili Peppers live before, at Reading Festival, but going to a gig that is theirs and not a festival where they’re headlining somehow seems more special.

I’ve finally upgraded my blog to v2.0.x of Wordpress. I was previously on 1.5.x and there was nothing of note that made me to want to upgrade. That was until I found out that my category permalinks weren’t working.

I decided that something as simple as a PHP5 compatibility issue must have been fixed in the latest and greatest version of WP so I duly upgraded. Thankfully, the WP team have, as usual, done a stellar job of making the upgrades as easy as pie. The blog didn’t even go down while the files were uploading!

There’s only one thing so far that’s bugging me about OSX and the apps that rely on it. American English.

I don’t want to write in Americanese, I want to write in proper english, thank you very much. I don’t drop that ‘u’ from colour, I don’t spell apologise or realise with a ‘z’, and I don’t do any of the other little things that differentiate our supposedly common language.

Obviously, I’ve started teaching that little dotted red line the error of its ways, but is there any way to install a British English dictionary on OS X? I’ve not found a way as yet, but surely Apple have foreseen this eventuality… haven’t they? Or are they simply hoping to avoid confusion by forcing us brits to spell “the right way”?

Any insights will be much appreciated, as Google’ing this hasn’t revealed anything of note.

For those of you out there who have your shiny Mac, but have never used Quicksilver… what rock have you been hiding under!?

As it is, I love Quicksilver and I’m not sure how I could live without it. There’s certainly nothing that comes close to it in terms of functionality on Windows. Sure, there’s the odd app that covers some of Quicksilver’s features, but never the whole lot.

However, it seems I’ve been using it without realising the application’s full potential. Howard Melman has produced a nice manual that helps a lot more than the plain Quicksilver Docs as it’s written in plain english with examples. Howard’s manual certainly helped me to realise QS’ features and what I was missing. Give it a read, I guarantee you’ll enjoy QS even further.

I’m going to take a look at using MarkDown in my posts from now on, as there is a MarkDown plugin bundled with WordPress and it looks to be easier than Textile.

So, basically, this is another test post. I may delete it, I may not… who knows!?

The more and more I use my Mac and the software available for it, the more and more I realise that I wouldn’t be able to live without some of the nifty stuff that can be done.

This, dear readers, is being posted from TextMate. Beat that! I’m just curious as to whether or not the Textile blog post offered in TM actually translates the text to HTML before posting it to the blog. I know that my “Wordpress”:http://wordpress.org install doesn’t have a Textile plugin at the moment.