Thoughts and Ramblings

General things I find of interest.

Apple has become the new Microsoft

So, people often ask me, why do I not use Windows. The reason is simple, nothing works right. Granted, many thing work, but none of them correctly. There are little tiny bugs in everything that, if the programmers had any competence in design, shouldn’t exist. Now Apple has fallen to the same regime. I have been running Leopard for some time now. I don’t think a single day has gone by without running into a notable bug.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Key Fixed

Well, after all the fun in my previous post on my laptop’s keyboard, I have finally gotten the key fixed. I set an appointment for the Apple Store in Austin as I was driving through there this past weekend. I just showed up, opened the computer, showed him the key, he popped it in. That’s it. I spent more time walking into the store itself than I did getting the thing fixed.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Sometimes you just got to laugh

I got this 419 scam today, and I decided to read it critically just for fun. I started to laugh at some of the word choices, so I decided to share (emphasis mine): Dear Sir, No name, OK I am a solicitor and I am the personal attorney to Late Mr Alex Tamu. Wow. Tamu is a person and not just an acronym for my university? I am writing you to receive this funds 9.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Broken Key

Well, a key broke on my MacBook Pro’s keyboard. I noticed the tab key was a bit loose yesterday, and today it won’t stay down. I called Apple Support about it since this computer is covered by AppleCare, and after spending over 30 minutes waiting to talk to someone, I was told there is absolutely nothing they can do short of sending me a box to have the computer shipped to them, or bringing it into a repair place locally so they can take the computer away for several days.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Sunday, November 11, 2007

Analytics

So, I’ve been running Google Analytics on this site for a few months now. It is interesting that about a 1/4 of you are coming to this site directly, another 1/5 are linked here from other sites, and the rest of ya’ll are coming through search engines. More people are finding me through searches than I would have expected. The search engines was interesting: First is the proportions. Google has the highest with about 95%, then comes yahoo.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Wednesday, September 26, 2007