Thursday, 12 February 2009

Bad blogger // Computer Geek

Welcome to the land of ice and snow.   Is it ever going to end??

I am a bad blogger because I very rarely blog, and if I do it's usually quite boring these days.  Unfortunately nothing much is going on in my life that seems worth reporting to the internet at the moment.  I have, however, applied for another job.  It's 7 months at the local aquarium, in the shop.  (Kind of ironic how I keep working at places I don't actually like.  Golf club, fish... :P)  I would be REALLY happy if I got this job though as I would earn like £8k, which I am in much need of!  It also means that I would probably be able to afford the Mac mini, something I have been kind of coveting for quite a while now. :P  I'm probably weird in that I prefer desktop computers to laptops.  I mean I like my laptop and I'm very lucky to have my own one, but I just find using a desktop easier - and it's nice to have the option of both, when you can (Windows and Mac I mean) without having to split up your hard drive.  Something I have discovered which is useful though is Google Docs.  Pretty basic formatting but it makes it easier to move between the two I think.  Although having said that, Pages can save in .doc format now, which is really handy.

Windows stuff has kind of let me down over the years, though.  I've had more meltdowns, crashes, updates and problems than you could shake a fish at and it's STILL unbearably slow a lot of the time.  When Windows 7 comes out I will probably fork out and buy it just to get rid of Vista on my system, though personally, I think they should be giving it out free of charge to anyone who bought Vista to apologise for what a load of crap it really turned out to be.

However... what I was considering was taking my laptop with me to lectures for typing up notes etc., then transferring them to my Mac once I got back (if I get a Mac - which I probably will).  Although having said that I think I can write notes faster than I can type them, due to having my own version of shorthand, which I can't seem to do on a keyboard without thinking about it very very hard.  And you don't get low battery warnings with a piece of paper. :D  Meh, we'll just have to see how it goes.

So I'm back off to Todd's tomorrow morning, and who knows when I'll get back given this crazy weather?

tl;dr - I hate snow.  Macs are awesome.

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