Andy Ihnatko paints a colorful picture of Windows use. He describes Windows as first the boorish, greasy haired acquaintance on a long road-trip, then later as disposable underpants. I can’t resist anthropomorphizations and descriptions of software as other daily objects.

I wasn’t going to post that article, but just now I was keeping notes in Notepad [...]

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Thanks to Gus, I took a quick tour through the MyDreamApp finalists today, and voted for two of them, Portal and Blossom. Portal is a long shot – it’s basically proposing to solve multi-computer file syncing seamlessly, but it would be great if done right. See Wil Shipley’s comments for why it’s hard. Merging is not [...]

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I’ve been a Windows User for two weeks. What’s it like from the other side?

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I’ve been thinking of how I’d work if I didn’t have a laptop. One thing’s for sure: I wouldn’t spend as much time rubbing my neck while waiting for builds, for a couple of reasons.

I’m beginning to wonder if a laptop is really any good at all, let alone necessary. Wouldn’t I rather not carry [...]

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My Powerbook’s disk died yesterday around 1pm. Since then I’ve been thinking about how to get by without it. After taking far too long to realize it was beyond my troubleshooting ability, I took it to the UTC Apple store at 5 or so, and got an appointment for 7:45, then went for a drink. When [...]

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