I refuse to learn from past mistakes.. and thus blog again while over tired.

I think its turning into a psychological need... to just write stuff out.. whatever's in my brain.. screw blog strategy... lets just write!

Ok.. so allow me to talk about the difference between myspace blogging versus the blogging I do on my site. As a general rule of thumb, I can tell you I get about 7 times the traffic, on my site, as I do on myspace.. Which is to say... as many page views as I might have in here in a week.. I'll get in a single day on my site.

So you can see why Id be more inclined to blog on my site.. then here.. particularly if readership has anything to do with soft power.. and if soft power is something to do with our strategic purposes here..

Still, there's something to be said about blogging on myspace.. I feel more casual here.. I feel less on stage, more able to speak in intimate tones... I think part of it is.. if you read me here you're probably a friend.. or... well that's why people blog on myspace, right? I mean its this social thing.. keeping in touch with your friends.. It's not like.. a public relations enterprise!

On my site.. friends who are sophisticated about social media are more likely to read me. These are the folks I meet at all my meet ups.. People I'm more given to feeling shy around..

I could go on at great length about this.. but its not really where my inspiration is pointing me.

I'll tell you what has me excited these days.. It's this computer. I'm really really really blown away. The Mac experience is just a billion times better then the PC experience.. I mean.. look at windows.. You got Vista.. the new one.. and nobody likes it.. everyone hates it.. the other possibility is XP. XP is ok.. but its dated. XP reminds me of working with OS9... all be it in a color scheme that is a bit more painful to bare...

I'm now on Leopard.. which is like.. OSX.5 I think its safe to say that Leopard rocks! Well let me try and describe what I'm playing with...

You have this operating system feature known as "spaces." How many programs do you have open at any one time? It probably depends on various variables, but... typically I'll have open email and a browser.. I may also have open some sort of production environment... so lets say video, music, graphics.. whatever.. Those "environments" could be one or more programs. For instance.. once I get all my shit together.. You'll have Digital Performer, Reason, and Live.. to say nothing of Komplete and Kore..

Ok, so that's a lot of programs... now normally what happens is you have your monitor full of windows.. and how the hell are you going to find the window you're looking for? I mean this is a serious pain in the ass... well, there's two ways.

1 Expose... There are two buttons on the side of the Mac Mouse.. if you click on this, your Mac goes into expose mode. Basically, all your windows scale down.. windows that were on top of other windows.. spread out... so suddenly all your windows are laid out in front of you, and you click on the window you want to bring to the top.

Thats all well and good... but we now have another level to go to.. spaces. Basically.. you'll have all these windows open up... and applications... but you spread them around in different spaces.. if you want to go play with Reason, you just control arrow your way over to the Reason space...

It's very very cool... much cooler then what is obvious from my descriptions.

Another cool feature is.. you have this sorta like track ball on the mouse.. it's like the scroll wheel on a standard mouse... accept that it goes both up and down and left to right.. and if you press it down... you get dash board...

Frankly... I don't know what the hell to do with Dash Board.. Dash bored is a place where you put these various widgets.. There's a lot of interesting widgets out there.. but most of them are a little on the novelty side. Dashboard is something that looks graphically exciting, but in practice is pretty useless.

I guess a part of what is so exciting.. well I have 2 GB of RAM. 2 GB is not really that much RAM anymore.. I mean these days even AIR comes with 2 GB! (sorry, had to be said) But 2 GB of RAM is 4 times what I'm used to.. To me it's an awesome thing to be able to have all these applications open at the same time.. without there being any sort of performance hit as a result. Now I plan to get into the sorta work where 2 GB might seem less then ideal. and I plan to be getting to that as soon as possible.. but until I get there 2GB rocks... and I can always upgrade the RAM..

So I'm a happy camper, as far as this computer is concerned.. I have all sorts of software problems.. but once that's ironed out.. this is going to amazing.

So.. to sum it up.. It's usually said that Mac's are more expensive then PCs. This isn't as true as it looks on the surface.. A comparably equipped PC costs about as much as a Mac, its just that Apple doesn't really compete in the "cheap pc" market.. The negative side is that Apple sorta dictates what features you get at what price point.. where as with a PC you have more choices... but it seems to me the experience of using a Mac is just light years beyond the experience of using a PC.. and that has a hell of a lot of value.

And I say all this while still feeling bitchy about about Apple!