The Apple Powerbooks are taking over. Its amazing how popular they are amongst the laptop crowd. They are fine machines for sure, but something about OS X bothers me. I think its best explained by taking a bit of script from Austin Powers and substituting "Evil" with "Free".

Dr. Evil: You're not quite evil enough. You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie, not evil enough.

OS X: You're not quite free enough. You're semi-free. You're quasi-free. You're the margarine of open source. You're the Diet Coke of GPL'ed software, just one licence, not free enough.

Then again, I use and promote a lot of Java, which is a another semi-free technology.

I finally got a new mouse. An optical microsoft USB mouse. its so nice! Ive been scheming to replace the guts of my desktop. an nForce2 mobo with Athlon XP 2200+ and a Ti4200 video card. mmmmmmm. with that Ill be back in the current generation of hardware so i can play a cool game or two. I was pleased to hear that Turbine is doing the Middle Earth Online game.