It feels good to finally be able to work on a laptop again!  The past few days has been hell.  I never thought how restless I would be without my device of choice.  Somehow a tablet or a smart phone just cannot replicate the tactile feeling of typing and seeing things on a screen for me.  Is this a sign of inadaptibility that I used to see in older folks?

My 5 year old MacBook Pro recently died an untimely death due to an unfortunate spillage accident.  I was lucky that only the motherboard was fried, but my hard disk drive was left fortunately unscathed.  As such, I managed to get back all my data and some system applications as well. Looks like I’m not going to give up on design as yet! [Read more…]