Apple: Predator or Protagonist?

This really annoyed me. There are not only a couple inaccurate claims in this story, there is also a big statement witch this guy makes, without giving an example.

It appears that what Apple has done is to take meaningful, desirable third-party services and applications and 'roll their own' inside the operating system, thus presenting users with a fuller package of features.

I could personally come up with some, but at the same time I can also argue that these examples are invalid because these features are simply evolved forms of features in prevous versions of Mac OS...

This is a funny statement:

But there's nothing in that list that I can't (and don't) do today from my Windows 2000 desktop, never-mind what you can do with Windows XP Pro on your PC.

Welp, maybe you should expand YOUR little list then. Because it's easy to look at a short list and say "I can do all that". It's another manner to see all the featuers in action and say the same thing. I use Windows 2000 at work, and have customized my PC to a large degree (At least I had in the past, I'll explain this further down). I had several featuers to which a bunch of people at my work would ask me "how did you do that?" Basically I had a very customized PC... MUCH more customized than most the other people at my work, and most of them were in fact Windows users at home... This said, my work PC had nowhere near the features and customization that my Mac does... I still to this day use my iBook at work because it saves me a ton of time trying to do the same tasks on the PC... Sometimes this happens in reverse, but nowhere nearly as often... So basically this guy is making these claims, yet I can provide a list of things I can't do on my Windows system that I can do on my Mac... But to be a pain in the a$$, I won't list any of them... If this guy doesn't want to provide any examples to back up his statements, why should I???

Oh, and the reason I said had is that I uninstalled most everything extra on my system as it GREATLY unstablized the OS... Not to say that since I uninstalled these things the OS is completely stable... If I count the number of times I've had Internet Explorer crash and compare it to the number of times ANYTHING on my Mac has crashed, there is no comparison... If I had a nickel for every time IE on my Win 2000 PC has crashed, and you took one away any time any program on my Mac has crashed, I'd be a rich man...

Torgo - The Torgo Arcade Blog

Welp, I've developed an interest in trying to build an arcade cabinet. Many people who have done this have created pages showing their building process and progress. So I have decided to do the same -- in blog form.

The Torgo Arcade Blog is now born. As of now there isn't much detail on it... Hopefully this will change in time. That blog should indicate how this process goes...

Prank Phone Call to Mapquest

It's been a while since I've blogged... Things have been unusual for me this past couple weeks... Most notibly my fience's grandmother died, followed a week later by her brother and cousin dieing in a motorcycle accident... But thoes are depressing and that's not quite what this post is about... I also had to format my computers hard drive as it was "damaged" and would not allow me to install Mac OS X 10.4... Fotunately I did a backup so I didn't loose anything...

At any rate I came across the above page and read it... Found it was rather funny... The guy prank called MapQuest about their directions... I've used MapQuest quite a bit, and though I find them loads of help, it does seem like there are many times the directions are made more difficult than they need to be... Though I do undertand it's difficult to manage a nation & world wide street by street map, it seems like there are many things they could try to do to clarify them... At any rate, follow the above link and take a look... Rather amuzing...