April 23rd, 2005 Yvo
Well my hosting provider (www.asmallorange.com) had some hardware issues and lost about 6-12 hours worth of stuff, right while I was actually updating my blog. So I lost 2 posts and some database backend work including home work I was working on for class.
Bleh bites a little but stuff like this happens I suppose. Plus I will probably be receiving a month of free support for this considering the down time & file loss. However I still feel that my host could have done more to keep the data. Looks like I will be host hunting soon again.
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April 17th, 2005 Yvo
No one would have expected this but after 14 years of using a Personal Computer, I am about to own an Apple iMac myself. Yup that is right. A few months ago I wrote about how the Mac Mini was Apple’s most affordable Mac yet. However things were brought to me in perspective these last few months. I have been using Mac OS X (the Operating System that powers the Apple) and it has been a great experience. Simply everything works like it is supposed to. No crashes, no weird slow downs and the biggest thing… NO SPYWARE. What I have come to expect from my computer is much more because of what I have at work. Mail.app does everything like Outlook but faster. Safari / Camino surfs as fast as IE but without the possibility of spyware. Sure we have Firefox for Windows (which Camino is based off of), but Mac OS X just does it pretty.
Years ago I hated Apple and people who know me back then know that as well. I was always frustrated when I had to use the apples and was very happy when the schools went to Dell / HP for their computers. Looking back though, schools didn’t really need a technican or (insert job title here to maintain PC) when the schools ran Macs. It is funny that after the schools switched over, suddenly problems with computers increased as well. However at the time I hated Macs and up until last year I still did. I laughed at those that used Macs. I started becoming interested in them when I was laptop hunting but since I feared the platform, I feared the change.
The car engine analogy applies to this VERY well. I love analogies and this is how this one goes. Basically a car engine has two very important parts. 1. Horsepower 2. Torque. Wintel (Intel/AMD) has the raw horsepower (like processing speed) but Apple has the torque meaning what drives the horsepower, in this case Mac OS X. Mac OS X just works better then Windows. Windows has gotten so big because the platform it runs on has so many different variations. You can’t really fully blame Microsoft other then that they should have been more stricter (hopefully Longhorn will fix this) with how it runs unsigned drivers / ramp up testing. Which brings up the next issue, Longhorn. It has been 5 years since the last OS release from Microsoft (longest time before this was 2 and half, between Windows 95 & 98 and even then you had Windows 95 OSR2 & OSR2.5).
Anyways. I will be switching part of me soon to Apple. My email and word processing will be done from my iMac. I will still probably game for while from the PC but eventually (in the next 3 years) I will make the full switch. Until Microsoft gets their shit straight, and literally straight. I will be more then happy to be an Apple fanboy.
I will post pics the moment I get it setup. Such a beautiful machine.
With that said. 11 days until Tiger roars on my desktop!!!
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April 9th, 2005 Yvo
Battlestar Galactica will soon be back on the Scifi channel together with Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis. Looks like TV is going to get good towards the end of June. I’ll be sure to program the VCR and/or queue up my Newsleecher.
Earlier this week BSG got big endorsements from TV Guide, Screen Actors Guild and Time Magazine. Rated as one of the top 5 drama tv series currently on TV. The only reason people aren’t watching this is either:
1. They don’t get cable / don’t know how to get it
2. They simply aren’t open to the idea of a SCIENCE FICTION being able to not be a nerd show.
3. They simply don’t like TV.
Unfortunately Cam is #3. She just doesn’t care for TV. Which is good because it balances me out. I am a big Alias, ER, Stargate & BSG freak.
Welp that is all………..for now.
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April 5th, 2005 Yvo
Today is the day that Cammy and I have been together for 6 months. Now for some that may be short but in my book it is officially the longest relationship I have ever had. It feels good to say that. I have truly enjoyed every single moment of it. Albeit our fights here and there (they get resolved very fast) I love Cammy more and more each day. She is the best thing that ever happened to me. She is understanding, forgiving, and she listens and cares. She understood what I went through the first few months of our relationship as she went through the same experience (and probably worse… getting dumped at next to a handicapped pole WHILE at work is probably worse then getting dumped online). We took it slow but let our love take us further. There were no boundries by anything but our responsibilities, comfort zones and each other’s love.
Here I sit today, a very happy man. Exactly a year ago I was in Holland making plans to live and go to school there. Since then a lot has changed. More then I can imagine. I have really found my “way” here and things that happened this summer helped me along the way at the same time I learned a lot from those experiences and took it as a positive experience in a whole. At first I was negative but hey… I have a lot of good fond memories, memories that I will never forget. I look back and am disappointed that some of the people I hung with are no longer my friends but stuff happens. As of a few weeks ago Cam and I have been planning to move into an apartment together. That will truly be an exciting new chapter in my life.
Cammy, you are wonderful and amazing. I love you!
Yvo
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