• GarageBand ’09 turned into GarageBug ’09 by helpfully not being able to find my plug-in presets. If that happens to you, trash the prefs. #

• Just heard from the BBC – my interview on the Mac’s 25th is live. http://is.gd/h1wn My bit’s around 15:25-19:25, taken from the 20 min intv. #
• Worried about Apple UI. GarageBand ’09 has great new features, but the UI is indistinct + the resource-hungry mixer is no longer retractable #
• Hmm. Just got locked out of Twitter due to ‘too many failed attempts to sign in’ and told to ‘chillax’ in an infuriatingly patronising way. #
• Robotron:2084 fans: buy Retro Gamer 60, which has my interview with Eugene Jarvis about his breakthrough shoot ‘em up! http://is.gd/hGp6 #
• Speaking of Twitter, are there any decent multi-account Mac OS X clients out there, which aren’t Air-based? #
• GarageBand’s new stomp-boxes for electric guitars are far too much fun. Stunning value, given how cheap iLife is as a package. #

• Soft-launched iPhoneTiny @ http://iphonetiny.com/ and http://twitter.com/iphonetiny in amongst crazy amounts of top-secret mag work. #

Late last year, I had the good fortune to interview Ed Rotberg, creator, among other things, of the groundbreaking Battlezone. This vector graphics tank simulator was the first truly immersive 3D environment in videogames, and probably the first 3D update of a 2D classic, what with it being heavily based on Kee/Atari’s various overhead Tank games.

The current issue of Retro Gamer, 59, includes portions of the interview in ‘The Making of Battlezone’, and the game is featured on the cover as a beautifully rendered faux-vector scene.

This seems to have been good timing by Retro Gamer, since all kinds of Battlezone-related things seem to be cropping up right now. First, there’s Vector Tanks, a heavily Battlezone-inspired blaster for iPhone, written by the supremely talented Peter Hirschberg. Secondly, Wade Shooter’s video for Fujiya & Miyagi’s Sore Thumb dresses the band and instruments in vector ekoskeletons, occasionally cutting to scenes of vector tank warfare.

• Just spent 30 minutes on the phone with the BBC, doing something on the Mac’s 25th for an upcoming Five Live Pods & Blogs: http://is.gd/6mzr #