Diary of a Mac Virgin

Basically the idea is to document my experience of getting used to a MacBook with OS X Tiger and familiarise myself with Blogger at the same time. That's right, I've never blogged before either.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Lunatic Antics

Okay, so I lied: the previous post wasn't the last one. But this one is. Probably.

I did say in the last last post i.e. the one before this one, that I was thinking I might set up a new blog, and indeed I have. It's called Lunatic Antics and in addition to blogging about my further adventures with the MacBook I'll be writing up a whole load of even less interesting crap as well!

I bet you can't wait!

Saturday, January 06, 2007

Where do I go from here?

Forgive me reader for I have sinned. It's been a month since my last confession and I don't have much to say except that this could be my last entry!

I've found it useful to write this stuff. It's helped me to get thing straight in my head and a couple of days ago I found myself wondering "How did I do that thing with Automator?". Having it here to refer back to proved very useful.

I suppose the biggest issue is that I'm about to install Red Hat Fedora on an old PC because I want to learn more about the inner workings of the servers on which my various websites are hosted, and it occurs to me that a "Diary of a Fedora Virgin" might be useful. However, having just picked up yet another "For Dummies" book and observing the list of what's available in the range of titles, I'm afraid of where that might lead.

Another issue is: just how long can I go on claiming to be a virgin?

I guess it would make more sense to change the name of this blog and start using tags so I can cover the whole lot in one. But what would I call it? "Diary of [insert my name here]" might seem like an obvious choice however I prefer to maintain a certain level of anonymity (see my profile for fewer details). "Diary of a person who spends too much time worrying about minor details rather than just getting on with it" might be appropriate but it's a bit long winded.

Anyway, enough of that drivel. I guess that if this is the last entry I should finish of with some kind of summary and a conclusion about my MacBook:

Now, while I could rattle on for pages (read my blog) about the various things I like and the few things I dislike about this beastie, the fact is that as time has goes I find more and more things that I like and have gotten used to working around the very small number of things I don't like. The bottom line can therefore be summed up with a simple question and answer:

Q: If my MacBook got stolen, would I replace it, or go back to using a PC?
A: I'd want another Mac.