I just read something on Bloomberg I thought was interesting. The after effects of the bombing are starting to have a measurable effect. People have cancelled their Bali holidays and are flocking to other SE Asia holiday spots. It’s good to see that people are getting over the fear of terrorists but the people of Bali need those tourism dollars more than ever.
I get much of my news from the web. I?m one of those sad sacks that spend many hours a week on the Internet. The first step in getting help for an addiction is to admit to having a problem. I can?t admit it, I won?t admit it, and I don?t have a problem. I use ?other? operating systems and my stress levels are pretty low and for me it?s fun to geek. This isn?t a recent change; I?m only mentioning it because of reading news from the web and noticing more references to other OS?s in that news. People are getting very dissatisfied with M$ Windows. My dissatisfacton started long ago. The change in me started in university, I took one class that introduced Unix and Linux in particular and I?ve been hooked since. That was 7 years ago.
It satisfied the craving in me to know what was going on behind the scenes and make the modifications that fit the way I work instead of what the way some engineer thought I wanted to work. This admission is starting to sound like I’m coming out of the closet. I?m not, just declaring my geekiness to the world. My web server is a Linux box that runs all the services I need right now. With the Linux box it can take a little time and effort to get some things working and in my old age I got lazy and bought a Mac. Why? The BSD core satisfies my Unix geekiness. The OS X GUI is great to look at. It is slower than an Intel processor but hell I don’t type that fast. It?s easy enough that my girlfriend can figure out most things herself. Things work without a lot of fiddling but if you want to fiddle to get it just right you can. So in true geek fashion I have a Linux box as my central server and a Mac box with OS X for my girlfriend and I to work with. I?m in geek heaven.
