I had to try this…

Well, it made me laugh, anyway

Eric, over at Shoulders of Midgets has a very nice little piece on what is, and what isn’t an operating system. For those who want the short version: it’s not Word.

It reminds me of what someone said in response to Sun’s “The Network Is The Computer” slogan: “The computer is the computer; the network is the wiry spaghetti-like bit that comes out the back. Apologies for any confusion caused…” (anyone know who, by the way?)

…when these mean something to you (response to this…)

You’ve been in computers too long when…

• …the word “atom” makes you think “Intel”
• …”double glazed” makes you think for about thirty seconds
• …you understood the previous joke
• …you’ve spotted a logical inconsistency in Doesotevsky’s “Crime And Punishment”
• …or on the other hand, you’ve never read the above, even though you’ve claimed to several other people that you have*

* – The sun rises twice in one day.  Kurt Godel spotted this.  Not me.

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Or not clever enough?

If you answer that question, you lose your own Buddha nature. Or maybe you don’t.

I’ve been using the excellent freeware RSS reader Feedreader for ages; great for keeping up with my RSS feeds (Thunderbird can do much the same, but for some reason I find I prefer Feedreader…)

Having installed it in XP I wanted to portable-ise* it so I could use it in my Windows 7 setup. Turns out – thanks to this post – that it’s rather easy to do… Read the rest of this entry »