I use and am pleased with Macs not for the aesthetic cool statement nor the pleasure of paying a price markup, but because mine generally work and do not get crippled by viruses or intra-computer software warfare. All the programs get along. The machine is quiet. It can be counted on to turn on and function when asked. No headaches.
It's not a passionate thing for me, but one of convenience. Other than pure self-interest, I have no dog in this fight. So it's funny to run into Mac fanatics (or is it Apple? I never know...) who are religious about it. We generally agree for the first two sentences ("Yeah, they're great"), and then they go off into the Mac dogma and preaching, and I have to pull out my old Chinese teacher's dictation: "END of discussion!"
According to their mythology, Apple's annual, much-hyped convention or show is expected to launch God's Gift to Technology each year -- even when God took the year off.
As shown in Apple's new TV spots, the new laptop slides effortlessly into a manila envelope. Its fat end is slimmer than the skinny end of Sony's thinnest Vaio notebook ... This is a major technical and aesthetic breakthrough, and a killer feature for those vexed by the fact that you can't send laptops via interoffice mail.
As you may have noticed, the site has changed. Sampa, the free-site host, did a version 2 of some sort.
Despite an FAQ that made it sound like allowing one's site to go through v.2 surgery would be okay, there were several flexibilities that surprisingly disappeared with the click of a button. (e.g. I cannot believe sidebars like this one are even narrower than before.)
And I'm told -- miraculously! -- that the conversion cannot be undone. Truth be told, I'm actually quite pissed. But free is free. Sampa has otherwise been good to me.
So I need to sort through site "features" to see how I can make do. Except that I don't have the time at the moment, in the middle of graduate classes and Lighthousehockey.com. (btw, I've removed that Lighthouse RSS feed so that you're not clogged with random Islanders hockey gibberish).
But I promise to touch up the accessories when I get a chance, and return to irregularly scheduled blogging.
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February, 2008