April 23, 2006
Sunrise swim ...
Gilligan retrieves a stick out of Melton Hill Lake at daybreak on a beautiful spring morning. Gilligan has turned out to be even more of a water dog than Xena. She prefers to wait for him to return with the stick, then she jumps him in shallow water and takes it off him. Bully.
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April 15, 2006
Apologies to the Mac Whore ...
To the office Mac Whore, I apologize. I apologize for taunting you and your Cult of Apple ways. I apologize for all of my crimes and insults against the Mac. And I apologize for my slurs against St. Steven Jobs.
I just purchased a Mac mini (the 1.66GHz version, with 1 gig of RAM). Wow. It's freakin' awesome. And I really haven't even done much with it yet.
The setup alone was a study in ease and elegance. I wanted to transfer all of my settings from a Powerbook that has anchored my home computing. In a little more than an hour, I'd transferred all the files and settings with no problem. Even when I thought I might have problems because I use a wireless keyboard and mouse, the Mini detected each during setup and sucked it into the new world.
Best of all, it's blazing fast. Major improvement over the Powerbook I was using. I can't wait to get my Stubbs the Zombie game to really put this machine through its paces. Time to eat some brains.
This is how computers should work. I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to run Windows on this machine, but I know this much: My next work computer will be a Mac. The only thing that really has held me back is that so many of our applications are Windows-centric. Now that I can run either system on a Mac, I'm there ...
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April 14, 2006
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Several pieces in The New York Times yesterday noting the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's birth. One about his American publisher, the other about a 2,000 page, 4-volume collection of Beckett's work that I'm thinking about ordering.
It's interesting that on the same day, a co-worker sent me a Beckett quote that almost perfectly describes the stuff I'm working on these days ...
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." – Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho
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