Standards complicancy:
from a PC lovr ‘Poor standards compliance: Apple’s Safari web browser often fails to render MSN properly.’
Er…..what
Category: General
Nother good reason
MSN Search has found -1 links to this site.
As if to illustrate my point. Great DataMining MSN dudes.
mac mini vs WinPC
So the netizens are restless. It seems the mac mini has caused quite a stir. There are a lot of very angry people out there furiously defending, and attacking the other side. Not a new development granted. However there seems to be fresh bile in this one, one side of the argument has always been that macs are too expensive. This with the advent of the mini seems to have deflated that argument somewhat.
Now what we get are the bare bones of the face-off. PC users with a fair amount of anger are slating the mini as a poor option, mostly due to the specs of the system. ‘But Dell ships a 2.6 GHZ machine for the same price! And a monitor is included.’ Blah de blah.
I myself am/was a PC user, yet many of my interests (Design – Product and Graphic, Datamining, Usability, IxD and HCI) have been progressively dismissed by Windows as not the most important part of what they are trying to achieve. Fair enough. But it is that exact reason I have now moved to the Mac. It is simply a delight to look at, use and create on.
I know I have made the correct decision when one of the battling netizen uses the below as an argument for PC’s.
‘or I could grab an equally stylish, full-featured eMachine….with the added benefit of being able to run Windows XP’
I just feel my creativity may be stiffled by the above piece of product design.
macmini
Guilty Pleasures
I am now the proud owner of a Mac mini. tis tiny..no it really is…I am a windows user no more.
Evolution Two – the return of the dot
Modal popup window
Are you nerdier?
Springwatch
‘Springwatch is the biggest ever survey into the arrival of spring across the UK. It’s run by the BBC in association with the Woodland Trust and the UK Phenology Network.’
‘We would like you to watch out for and record your first sightings of any of the six species below.’
and wouldn’t you know it I saw a seven-spoted ladybird on the 17th. Admittedly it was in my flat, but my window was open for a good hour before sighting (he protests wildly).
Ofcourse in true ‘ufo sighting’ stylee, I managed to only take a rather crap, out of focus photo. All I had to hand was my trusty camera phone.
Note this is nightime and I am trying to take a photo of a bug.
Still, there it was proudly displaying all seven spots. See it yourself in its full grainy, red blobiness:
and get this – ‘Spot them from February-March’, do-da-do-da-do-da-do-da (blog mood music). Global warming/FBI conspiracy/Ladybird hibernating in my flat over winter – who knows…..