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Having a 5 year old son who is showing an interest in TV shows and Movies containing martial arts I recently went on the hunt for info (DVDs) of one of my favorite shows from my teen years Monkey (aka Monkey Magic). The sad piece of information I discover was that Masako Natsume (?? ??) the Japanese actress who played Tripitaka, the boy Priest, died tragically aged 27 from acute leukemia.

Wikipedia has a little entry on Natsume which has links to a sight about her burial monument and  the Sunflower Foundation, a cancer organization dedicated to Natsume.

Can I still blame her for having a thing about cute, bald Asian women?

When Apple recently released updates to the iWork ‘08 suite (Keynote, Pages & Numbers) I diligently downloaded and attempted to install the updates only to be faced with the above error message. Several Googles and the usual annoying number of “me toos” later I found the “please shoot me now”, oh so simple, solution. iWork ‘08, by default, installs these apps into an “iWork 08″ folder under the Applications folder. If you move the apps, which I had (because every other Apple app goes straight into Applications - doesn’t it!), the updater can’t find them. I reinstalled iWork ‘08 to its default folder (you probably could just move them) and low and behold the updater worked.

N.B. The same can apply to other Mac apps. So from now on I’m going to leave them in their default folder and if I want to be able to launch them from, say the Applications folder, I’m going to use sim-links.