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Wednesday July 02, 2003

My Love-Hate Relationship with Apple I admit that I have a love/hate relationship with Apple. I love iPhoto and how well it works with my Canon Powershot G2 (digital camera). Same goes for iTunes/iPod and iMovie/our Sony DV camera. I hate how slow my Powerbook is (667 MHz, 1 GB RAM). I hate that iTunes and iPhoto will just "quit working" sometimes and I have to backup/re-import in order to get things working again. I love the look of OS X and hate the fact that the machine has a 1-button mouse. Don't get me wrong, I love/hate things about Windows/Linux too, but I have an intense desire to really love Macs. Mine just keeps disappointing me.

Twice now, I've thought I lost all my photos and music - errors like "we've lost all your data" and "can't read file that was working 2 minutes ago" stare at me with a smirk and a middle finger. The data I have in iTunes and iPhoto is the most valuable data I have. I could lose the hard drive on my Windows box and not be that disappointed, but the Mac - whoof! Pictures of Abbie, all my CDs I've imported, we're talking 10 GB of kick ass data!!

Last night, I hated OS X since iTunes flipped me off and I spent an hour+ getting it back. This morning, I fell in love again as I bought my first album (Def Leppard, Hysteria) from the Apple Music Store. Man that was easy. I've been meaning to stop by Best Buy and get a couple new CDs. Now it's possible in under 30 seconds without leaving my keyboard monkey role. Sweet!

I'm going to have to leave Mini-me at home during vacation though - I don't want to have a fight while I'm trying to enjoy Montana. Our flight leaves at 8:30 tonight, so don't expect any updates until next Tuesday. I'll be taking lots of pictures (the 512MB flash card that Abbie got me for Christmas will be a big help). Happy 4th - don't blow off any fingers. Posted in Mac OS X at Jul 02 2003, 11:41:57 AM MDT 4 Comments

GoogleAds

Reading Russ mentioning GoogleAds in his blog got me thinking ... i get a lot of referers from google searches so i was thinking let's see if i can get this site to be accepted. Since the rules to get accepted are not disclosed it is a bit of a gamble. [Werner Ramaekers Weblog]

Hmmm, I wonder if I could qualify? I wonder if it's possible (in Roller) to only display these ads when a user is coming from Google. I don't want to spam all my readers with GoogleAds, but if someone is coming from Google - I don't mind. Ideas appreciated. Posted in Roller at Jul 02 2003, 07:39:28 AM MDT Add a Comment