I’m a fiercely proud Mac owner — I’ve never owned a Windows machine in my entire life.  My family’s been on Apple computers since I was in the 6th grade.  And finally about three years ago, I moved from desktops to laptops, and I’m never going back.  The prospect of being able to take my computer with me wherever I go is much too alluring, and it also means that I can work from anywhere, given an Internet connection.

I have noticed, however, that in recent years, Apple has become slightly more Microsoft-ish in its ways by putting out software that is kind of buggy.  It’s kind of sad now that every time I notice that a program or the OS has been upgraded, I have to go online to a bunch of Mac fan message boards to see whether I should actually apply the update or whether it hosed several people’s computers.  But what I don’t get is why people feel compelled to announce that they’re about to upgrade — every time I check the boards when there’s a big update, there’s at least three pages of posts from people saying things like “Okay, here I go!” or “Hope this works!” or “This sounds great, I’ll let you know if it works when I get back to my computer!” WTF?  Do I really need to slog through all that crap?  I need information about the update, not useless blather about what you’re going to do later.  They might as well tell me, “While I’m updating my OS, I’ll be watching Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? and here’s what I’m wearing and here’s what I’m eating...”

In other news, I’m very much pro-the new Amy Winehouse album.  Definitely check it out.