Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Church of Mac Go Home
Lemme just say I have total Mac lappy lust. I look at the machines some of my cohort are using and just want one. But, I can't go there. I just can't stand you people and your zealotry.
It's icky.
Here's an example: I was at the IA Summit in Vancouver at the end of March. Samantha Starmer from Microsoft (and a UW iSchool grad) did a session on getting execs to buy off on IA. It was a great, energetic presentation. (As an ex-microsoftie, I gotta say she nailed it. That girl's going places in the company). The one snag: her slides stopped working about halfway through.
I couldn't believe it. People in the crowd were positively snarky. "Get a mac," "Microsoft sucks,"and "Weak," were comments I heard.
To her credit she soldiered on and got the issue resolved by the end -- which, just from observation seemed not to be Windows related at all. Instead, I think the VGA cable wasn't making a connection or something.
The very next day, Dan Brown did a session on "New Strategies for Content Management." Now, it was an solid session (the Content & Templates tied directly to my last quarter's cataloging class which, in turn, made me like this tuition wasn't a total waste!) that focused on trying to apply new metaphors to our content processes. Good stuff.
The interesting thing was, his slides didn't work either. It kind of became a joke -- he'd be ready to advance a slide and would wonder out loud if it was going to work. Mass uproar, right?
Nope. No one said a thing.
Of course, Dan was using a Mac and as a contractor he works with much more popular organizations than Microsoft -- like the postal service and homeland security.
What is up with attitude mac folks? You are scaring me off your sexy white computers.
I'm elitist enough all by myself. I don't need need to saddle my computing choice with that baggage, too.
It's icky.
Here's an example: I was at the IA Summit in Vancouver at the end of March. Samantha Starmer from Microsoft (and a UW iSchool grad) did a session on getting execs to buy off on IA. It was a great, energetic presentation. (As an ex-microsoftie, I gotta say she nailed it. That girl's going places in the company). The one snag: her slides stopped working about halfway through.
I couldn't believe it. People in the crowd were positively snarky. "Get a mac," "Microsoft sucks,"and "Weak," were comments I heard.
To her credit she soldiered on and got the issue resolved by the end -- which, just from observation seemed not to be Windows related at all. Instead, I think the VGA cable wasn't making a connection or something.
The very next day, Dan Brown did a session on "New Strategies for Content Management." Now, it was an solid session (the Content & Templates tied directly to my last quarter's cataloging class which, in turn, made me like this tuition wasn't a total waste!) that focused on trying to apply new metaphors to our content processes. Good stuff.
The interesting thing was, his slides didn't work either. It kind of became a joke -- he'd be ready to advance a slide and would wonder out loud if it was going to work. Mass uproar, right?
Nope. No one said a thing.
Of course, Dan was using a Mac and as a contractor he works with much more popular organizations than Microsoft -- like the postal service and homeland security.
What is up with attitude mac folks? You are scaring me off your sexy white computers.
I'm elitist enough all by myself. I don't need need to saddle my computing choice with that baggage, too.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
I need to get a handle on this blog
Every time I venture into the blogosphere I realize I know less about technology than poeple give me credit for. All those years at MS be dammed, I'm probably much closer to the librarians than the junior IT guys in the infomatics program. First thing I want to do is add some categories -- maybe freshtags? Or maybe just toss blogger altogether and go with wordpress? Something else?
I figure if I'm going to put some effort into this effort, I might as well make some effort to get it right. Or something like that.
I figure if I'm going to put some effort into this effort, I might as well make some effort to get it right. Or something like that.
Catch up and Etcetera
All I can say is don't going looking for my March archive. It isn't there. I won't make excuses (final projects, end of the quarter, spring break, IA Summit), ahem... but, I do have a lot of interesting topics I've been meaning to cover so I'm just going to throw out a lot of random, undeveloped thoughts over the next couple days. Hey, it's a blog, right?
