Sat, 31 May 2003

WOW!
posted by Chip Witt

Getting longer and longer between posts. With good reason...I swear. Between January and May I found myself in the position to teach a course in Management Information Systems at Dominican University. Along with my normal IT duties here and elsewhere, this left no time to "contemplate my navel", as they say in the philosophical disciplines. Happily, I have regained some "quiet time", and can once again begin to focus on my geeky, dark arts.

My day gig has found me up to my neck in Macs, and has leant itself to developing an eerie comfort with these oddly religious relics. I've owned a Ti Powerbook or two for a couple of years now just 'cause they're extremely cool and can run Linux, but I've most recently developed a true and deep appreciation for what Apple has accomplished with their development of OSX.

Used to be I hated Macs because I hated the old MacOS. It was user friendly. To a fault. It lacked the built-in "magic" necessary for my needs, and thus I had little patience for trying to understand how best to make it suit the needs of others. I have often jokingly stated that Microsoft's only edge over Apple way back in the day was to have the marketing foresight to see value in adding an FTP and telnet client in the default OS installation. Two tools that one could not do without in the modern computing world. Realistically, though, Microsoft was late to this party too...realizing only after much time passed that, despite claims of providing modern comforts for users, they still fell well short in basic functionality compared to their UNIX brethren.

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