Sailing The Seven Seas

Apple
I had yet another discussion about my dislike of Apple this week.

I know a lot of people, in recent years have taken to disliking Apple, because they don't like iPhone users. Either through jealousy or genuine annoyances. My dislike for Apple goes back to a time well before the iPhone, though, it does, in part, include it.

My problem comes from the general 'cult' of Apple. I used to watch the keynotes they'd put up online, where they'd announce the latest products. That was until I started getting far too angry at them. The one that will always stick in my mind is from the second or third generation of iPhone. They were announcing all the new features, one of which was the ability to search your contacts.

Many people remember the fact that you were able to search your contacts back in the days of the Nokia 3310 and might wonder why Apple decided to omit this feature from what they were trying to boast as the best phone on the market. It's not something that will make or break a phone, clearly, but it seems, to me anyway, to be common sense to include it.

When Steve announced the feature though, the crowd went wild. It was like Apple were the first people to ever think of including such a feature, not just on a phone, but anywhere. Why hadn't anyone thought of it before?!

If you ask a mac user, why you should get a mac over a windows computer, the general answer will be "Macs never get viruses. They never crash. They're amazing."


I've crashed a mac.

I'm not saying they don't have their place in the world, I just don't particularly see them as superior machines. Infact, I don't see any of the products as particularly superior. People are falling in love with a brand, with a logo and trusting it's every move, blindly believing the hype and marketing that the company puts out and that's never a good thing.

Community
Over the course of about 3 days, I downloaded and watched the entire first season of Community. An american sitcom that centres itself around a group of people attending community college.

Given that I watched 25 episodes over the course of a week, I think it's safe to say I enjoyed it. Feels like it could be the 'New Scrubs' -- With the same kind of humour, and the way background characters are more recurring than true background.

Scripts
Despite not being entirely finished with "Seven Days" (the full seven days are written, but I'm not happy with how it ends and it really needs to be re-written), I've been thinking more about a 'sequel' of sorts. The events in the 'sequel' would take place over the same week of the first. But it would be from a different character's point of view and introduce a whole range of other people, before crossing over with the original in Paris.

I started writing it a while ago, when I had, what I considered to be, a cool idea. But haven't written more than about a page worth of stuff.

Windows 7 & ambx
The PC we have, for the past year or so, has been running Linux. Ubuntu to be exact. While that's been fine up until now, I actually tried to buy a copy of Windows 7 for my mum, for her birthday (the PC is pretty much her computer and she prefers a Windows PC over Ubuntu), however the seller I bought it from on Amazon turned out to be a fraud and although I managed to get my money back, I was left without a copy of Windows.

Stuart had sent me an ambx kit, and so, I decided to set sail on the seven seas and get myself a copy of Windows 7. After a couple of hours, the PC had gone from linux to 7 and the ambx kit was set up. The PC is connected to the television in the livingroom, so the ambx should be pretty cool for watching films and stuff.

Seeing how easy it was to install 7 on the PC, I decided to install it on my laptop too. I wasn't one of those people who hated Vista. My laptop could run it fine, and so I never really had any problems with it. 7 seems to be working out pretty well though.

Quiz
Team Name: Halal, is it meat you're looking for?
Score: 46.5

I'd kind of written off quiz tonight, Allan had pulled out and I was just going to go home. Robyn text asking if I was going and eventually it was decided that I was. Paula decided to come along and we ended up with a team of six and finished third (don't let anyone else tell you otherwise).