Okay..
1) I had a idea for a really cool app for tracking my emotional state. I’m going to write it over the next couple of weeks.. just takes a little Laz and a little php, and we be jammon’ man. Also a lot of reused code, but then, I’m known to recycle. Aint no shame in that.
2) Every computer should come with a fast processer, lots of ram, firewire and usb ports, CF and SD cards, and a pretty LCD color display. But more importantly, every computer should come with a salesguy who says, as you buy it, ‘The word obsolete doesn’t mean anything. Someone just made it up – a computer is a tool, just like a hammer, and you don’t hear about hammers going obsolete. You just bought a beautiful machine, and if you have the patience for it, you and this machine can do wonderous things. Upgrade when it no longer meets your needs, but pass it on to someone. Until then, remember when you get angry with it that it is a reflection of humanity, and so you’re really just getting angry at yourself, which isn’t a very productive thing to do’
3) Okay, so I’m an asshole. But, I’m in pretty good company. Thank you, Ani Difranco.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Hammers WOULD go obsolete, if every year the only successful nail manufacturer came out with a new model of nail, twice as big and half as sharp, and convinced customers around the world that this was a Good Thing by sheer virtue of being the only successful nail manufacturer around.
Vista is going to be a hard sell at first because a lot of people ARE realizing that their current system is in fact Fast Enough. That’s why Vista is being sold as ‘more secure’ because the limitations we are running into are those of vulnerability rather than speed. Just coincidence that Microsoft is beginning to say Recovery from malware is becoming impossible”: it is easier to reinstall Windows than try and recover from malware?
April 6th, 2006 at 2:56 am
Actually, it seems like I have less and less problems with malware, not more and more. My firewall seems to mostly keep the hackers at bay.. or else they’re so unobtrusive that I never notice they’re there. If the latter, I’m fine with that.