This blog is 5 years old!

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

And an unexpected anniversary present is a bunch of new traffic via a comment I made on Rory’s recent post about XP vs OS X, which later was linked to by [inexplicably popular] . The target is a post I wrote a few months back on what annoyed me about OS X, and looking back I still feel pretty much the same way about it. If Apple really wants people to "switch" they should pay a little more attention to how 90% of the computer users in the world already do things, because [believe it or not] not every single thing about Windows is bad. I run both operating systems all the time, and it would be a delight if not for these basic keyboard/UI grievances that make it so damn hard to jump from one to the other. If only the real Steve Jobs were listening…

I guess this isn’t much of an anniversary post (I must dig up my graphics tablet and draw some pictures again), but then the actual anniversary was two days ago. My first post is dated August 28 2002, and interestingly makes reference to the HTML Editor in which I compose my blog entries to this very day!

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4 Comments

  1. michael toye says:

    I like that you’re pragmatic about the pros and cons of both OSX and XP. I’d still really like a mac, but there are good things about windows and poor attributes in apple software. Why in Windows Safari can you only resize from the bottom right hand corner - or am i missing something? very nice apart from that annoyance.

  2. edam says:

    Happy birthday blog, and kudos to your intelligent designer!

  3. mark says:

    They seriously kept this behaviour with the Windows version of Safari? That is some nerve!

  4. mark says:

    Thanks for birthday wishes… being 5 years old I think it’s time for change: for one thing I’m sick of the name and am trying to come up with something a little more meaningful. “intepid” has started to feel like “The B Sharps”…

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