Ölbaum’s Delirium

jr pointed out the real purpose of Windows. This hilarious article mentions another one:

[…] a Macintosh simply cannot compete with a Windows machine when it comes to what matters: keeping techs employed.

I encourage you to read the entire article, it is worth it.

Here is another excerpt, not related to the first one but so accurate:

HI THERE!!! I AM AN ANNOYING ANIMATED PAPER CLIP THAT HAS POPPED UP INEXPLICABLY ON YOUR SCREEN AND WILL NOW PREVENT YOU FROM DOING WHATEVER IT IS YOU ARE TRYING TO DO. IN FACT, NO MATTER HOW COMMON A TASK IT IS THAT YOU MIGHT BE TRYING, IT WILL NOT BE IN MY INDEX. NEITHER WILL YOU BE ABLE TO GET RID OF ME HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

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I wrote this entry using my new BBEdit to Movable Type script, a combination of AppleScript and Perl. I am using AppleScript to get the weblog information from the keychain and the text from BBEdit. Then the Perl script uses Net::MovableType to post a new entry.

I cannot seem to be able to get Unicode text from BBEdit, though. I also need to improve the user interface. A barber pole window would be nice, as well as a fallback in case the information is missing from the keychain (I see an AppleScript Studio application coming). I don’t know if I’m going to allow to change settings and categories from the script as well or just make it open the entry editing page in Safari.

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I must admit the Rio Nitrus has one clear advantage over the iPod mini: you needn’t be as careful with a Nitrus as with an iPod because you definitely wouldn’t mind scratching, bumping or even drowning it.

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I pity Microsoft employees. I really do. Seeing this guy demonstrate the new Page Layout View in Excel 2004 during Steve Jobs’ Macworld Expo 2004 Keynote and actually looking excited about it worried me deeply.

I hate to be a killjoy but ClarisWorks 1.0 had the same feature; it was called Page View (and still is in AppleWorks), as Bob Hearn, co-writer of ClarisWork, kindly confirmed:

Yes, Page View was there from day 1. We wanted to avoid the need for a “print preview” by having a fully-usable page view from each document type.

Having to present this as a top five feature in Office 2004 during Steve’s Keynote would have made me very uncomfortable. I wonder what this man did to his boss to deserve such a treatment.

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