The honeymoon period between me and my iPod touch is still far from over. I remain enthralled with it’s beauty and captivated by it’s intelligence. Sure, I have become aware of a few faults, and I admit that it may have picked up a few blemishes along the way. But these things have only added more depth to our relationship. I am still in love and my fingers still caress it’s sleek smooth curves with the same tenderness as on the first day we met. And you should see the size of it’s hard drive! Wowser!
My Macbook and I on the other hand have become somewhat estranged. Perhaps I am more jaded these days. I am no longer the fresh faced Windows XP escapee, easily dazzled by hansom good looks and a promise not to give me a virus. But to be honest I think the reason things have gone cold between us is that it hasn’t been very well recently.
I think it all started when I downloaded a system update and it froze during the installation process. I force rebooted it and things seemed to be OK, but then the internet slowed to a complete crawl. I was getting speeds that wouldn’t have looked out of place coming from a 56k phone modem. I wasn’t so much surfing the web as slowly sinking in it.
After two weeks of increasing frustration I bit the bullet and reinstalled the operating system. Thankfully things appear to have sped right up. This means I’ll be more present on your blogs than I have been recently. You may not have noticed but due to general net slugishness I was forced to cut right back on my blog reading. Such has been my backlog that I’ve even had to click the “mark all as read” button on google reader a couple of times. an act of betrayal for which I shall feel eternally guilty.
So I’m back. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to have to go again. I need tinker with the settings a bit more. I’ve found that a computer is a lot like a pair of walking boots - you have to wear them in a bit before they feel truly comfortable.
Oh, and go check out Dan Leone’s 20 Ways to tell if blogging is taking over your life. It hit me so close to the bone I had to go have an x-ray.
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on Mar 12th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Dan, of course I hadn’t noticed that you’d been away, because you’ve continued to read and comment on MY blog.
Nanny nanny foo foo, all of you others!
on Mar 12th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Now you’re making me wonder if all the internet ‘issues’ I’ve been having later are due to the system update - you on Tiger or Leopard there?
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on Mar 13th, 2008 at 5:36 am
I’ve definitely noticed your absence. My comments are waaaay down lately. :)
on Mar 13th, 2008 at 7:13 am
I missed you something terrible.
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on Mar 13th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I can’t install one of the updates. Something about ‘couldn’t unzip package’. Seems a bit dodgy to me - and doesn’t relate to me personally.
But hello again Dan - I’ve missed the frequent insights into your life and brain.
on Mar 13th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I’ve skipped Tiger until I upgrade my aging PowerBook (2003 12″) which is unlikely to happen (if it holds up) until next year. By the sounds of it, my poor little machine would be very unlikely to cope.
(un)relaxeddad’s last blog post..Oh clever, crafting, knitting readers.,,
on Mar 14th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
That “mark all as read†button needs a confirmation, or an undo feature! I have twice in the last couple of months marked all read while viewing all items.
D’oh!
And I have only really been blogging for 7 months or so, but resemble way too many of Dan Leone’s symptoms.
Double D’oh!!
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on Mar 14th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels a twinge of guilt when I hit the “Mark all as read” button.
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