It’s time for my annual I-hate-daylight-savings post or, more accurately, my I-hate-the-lack-of-daylight-savings-in-the-winter-months post. It’s not that I don’t enjoy stumbling around in the dark at 5:30pm, shivering like a chihuahua as I try to transport containers of wild animal feed around the yard so the area deer, cats, and two opossums named Scooter and Moped will not go hungry, or maybe that’s exactly it, I’m not certain. Or perhaps more likely, it’s Daylight Saving’s cavalier attitude toward the winter months. That’s fine, go ahead and keep thinking you are too good to be saving daylight in the winter and I will continue stumbling over Scooter and Moped, but so help me if I stumble over a skunk I will drive to wherever you are and punch you straight in the neck.
Snow Leopard arrived at my door this morning, so naturally I immediately installed it. I did a little cleanup work last night to ensure all would go well, but come on, it’s Apple, all would go well even if I decided to install it underwater.
Once the install was done, 8.22 GB of space was cleared up on my boot drive and the whole system, which is the first Intel version of the Mac Mini, runs a little better, and dare I say even smells and looks better. The few user interface changes that were made are nice and make for more efficient use of the OS, unlike some companies that add features that are less efficient to use. I don’t want to name names, but Flip 3D comes to mind. What a waste of time and resources. If I wanted to push 3 keys at once, then repeatedly push an arrow key until the app I want appears roughly three minutes later and God forbid I accidentally pass it the first time through, then I would be either insane or would just have a lot of time on my hands and nothing better to do. Anyhoo, Snow Leopard is still all of the stuff I loved about Leopard, but smaller and faster. And better smelling. And only $29. And awesome. And I am pretty sure it saved some stray puppies while installing. That’s right, it’s a great operating system with a heart of gold.
I recently started trying out this whole Twitter fad. So far it’s pretty much like talking to myself since I follow no one and no one follows me. Well, I follow MacHeist and my profile says I have 7 followers but then it only shows one and I don’t even know where that came from, but it’s likely just an ad or something because I think it showed up after I tweeted about Windows 7, which by the way I have been using the release candidate for a while now and it’s a total piece of crap, but not as total a piece of crap as Vista, so way to go Microsoft. You have really outdone yourself.
Anyway, my Twitter profile is http://twitter.com/kjohnson72 so feel free to follow me or whatever you are supposed to do on Twitter and I will continue occasionally talking to myself.
I have to make this quick because the DVR is on pause and has been for a while and I think it is nearing it’s pause limit and I don’t want to miss any of Little People, Big World. I mean, come on, they are little people. In a big world. Their size and their world isn’t matching up. If that isn’t interesting then I don’t know what is.
For a long long long long long time I have had to deal with the overpriced quasi-internet, semi-internet at best that comes from outer space via satellite. Well, no more!!! I recently found out that I am in cellular broadband territory. That’s right, I am now land based. Sure it’s not wired internet, but it’s about 50 times better than satellite. I still have to live with the overpriced part, but now it’s almost as if I have real honest to God internet. They even say there is not cap on it. I’m already putting that to the test. Eventually it will have a cap and I will once again be screwed, but for the next two years I shall roam the interwebs at a reasonable latency. HOORAY!!!!
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