Speaking of echoes, I think the “Web 2.0 Bubble” echo has been done to death. That’s not to say that I agree or disagree with those stories; just that I’m tired of seeing headlines about it.
The “Web 2.0 Bubble” doesn’t need to be reevaluated and written about every single day! Not much has changed since yesterday; give it a two or three weeks before revisiting it please!
Today is definitely an echo day! Luckily, this doesn’t happen every day, but you can see what I’m talking about over on TechMeme today.
I don’t want to add to the echo so I’m not even going to point out exactly what I’m talking about but it should probably be pretty obvious. Of course, the issue is not as big of deal as most people are making out of it and I think most bloggers have figured that out.
Anyway, I love the blogsphere but it can be annoying when most people are just repeating what others have already said without adding any substantial commentary of their own. I can’t fault the bloggers that posted earlier when these echoes blow up but all the ones since just add unnecessary noise to the conversation. To make the situation worse, you just know that Mainstream Media is going to pick up the echo the next day and add even more unnecessary noise to the conversation!
The funny thing is that this could be avoided if most of these people used tools like TechMeme. It’s a great tool (I use it daily!) and you can see an echo on there pretty easily when they happen.
I guess maybe most people don’t care and just want to join the link chain. Oh well.
After spending some of my time last weekend and two full nights this past week trying to make Windows XP functional on a friend’s computer, I’ve decided that I’m definitely going back to using Macs. Ok, that’s not the only reason but it was the final straw.
In the past year, I’ve had to re-install XP on my brother’s computer twice. Once, his hard-drive died (not XP’s fault) and another time because a virus messed his computer up. I just re-installed XP on a friend’s computer because a virus and spyware made it completely unusable. I had to re-install XP on one of my computers because it had gotten slow, bloated and was crashing too much.
Luckily, I was able to save most of the important data from each computer each time so it wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been, but it’s more than I’ve ever had to do with any Mac I’ve owned ever! I’ve never had to re-install the OS. Not once. Plus, the only time a Mac ever felt slow and bloated was when it had finally lived past it lifetime.
The first Apple computer I ever used was in elementary school (maybe 5th grade) and it was an Apple IIe, I think. All through the rest of school and even early college, Mac was the only option.
I bought my first Mac in ‘96 or maybe ‘97 and it was a Beige G3 233mhz. Then around ‘02, I was doing more print design (huge files) and Photoshop seemed slow so I talked myself into getting a G4 867mhz. I also wanted OSX. Anyway, I still use my G4 to this day and it works great.
In 2000, I got a job as an ASP developer and a Windows PC was the only option there, unless you were a graphics person in the marketing department. So, I became a PC user during the day and a Mac user at night. For some odd reason, I’ve always found graphic design easier on a Mac and programming easier on a PC. Eventually, though, with ASP.NET I wanted to be able to program locally so I bought a Desktop PC. Later, as I starting taking classes again, I got a Laptop PC. My PCs have been ok, but I’ve definitely had more problems with them than my Macs.
From now on I’m going to go back to buying Macs. I’ve briefly touched on why but there are many more reasons going into that decision. Of course, I’ll still need to run Windows while programming but with move to Intel, I can do that now on a Mac. That’s actually one of the bigger reasons why I’m going back. Now I just have to resist buying a new computer now because I don’t really need another right now. My G4 and two PCs should still be ok for a while longer. It’s very tempting though!
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