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Om Malik, in another fit of Apple-loving, has yet another post up about how great Apple is.

Let me first state that I don’t really have any issues with his conclusions, but I do have a few points to make.

He compares Apple buyers to people who buy expensive jeans. I think this is an excellent comparison. Diesel jeans and Levi’s both serve the same purpose and do their tasks equally well. Some people fall for the marketing and the whole cachet that comes with the more expensive jeans. Others buy the Levi’s, get their work done, and buy a couple of meals with the money they save. I wish I had access to the statistics on this, but I would bet the farm that the percentage of Apple users among Diesel jeans wearers, is much higher than the percentage of Apple users among Levi’s, or even Wranglers, wearers…even adjusting for the income differences between the two groups. Apple is all about style and cachet. The Dell’s of the world are about putting a box on your desk. You can do the same things with either, just as you can with a pair of Diesel jeans or a pair of Levi’s, but one is cooler than the other.

Om ends his little tirade with a note about how, yes, Apple doesn’t have a great track record, but we should forget about that because, well…I don’t know why we should forget about it, but Om thinks we should. He’s right, of course (rather Mark Twain is right), that historical trends, are not a guarantee of future performance, but it’s surely an indicator.

With those things said, I agree with what I think Om’s overarching theme is: Apple is becoming a force to contend with in the PC world. It’s not because their products are necessarily better (I can do everything that someone with their fancy G5 can do with my XP Pro box) but because their products have that ephermal quality called “cool”.

Update: In a somewhat tangential note, Cringely has a good idea, about how Apple is going to increase their market share…See item #3 in his 2006 predictions.

This is most likely the BEST EVAR post at Gizmodo.

Live at Macworld: Please Don’t Be This Mac User – Gizmodo

(By “seriously”, I meant “not seriously”.  Really.)

I just updated to WordPress 2.0 and changed to the K2 theme.  Hopefully this works out well.

Awhile ago I bought this cheap gamepad from WalMart and since then I had lost the driver CD. I had a difficult time locating a driver online, but finally did.

Update: The original link is now dead. I’m now hosting the file here.

Update2: Apparently AVG throws a false positive on this file. It’s not a virus, people. Feel free to use an online virus scanner to double check.

Update3: I can’t believe people are still downloading this file. Does anyone notice that this post was originally wrote over 4 years ago? What are the chances that the “Game Elements PC Recoil” you bought recently is even the same device that this driver was wrote for?

I’ve been having problems with the Bloglines Toolkit extension in Firefox 1.5.  The main problem being that it doesn’t work!  However I noticed here that the author, Chad Everett, posted a new, untested version in the comments.  That would be in comment #4.  This works fine for me…

• It Isn’t Easy Being the Sexy Bin Laden: GQ Features on men.style.com
  (tags: girls binladen)
• Retro Pinup Lingerie Photos – Pinup Models – Winky Tiki Photography – Glamour Photographer
  (tags: girls)

• Windows Mobile Smartphone : Astraware
  (tags: mobile windows games smartphone)
• Random Adventures: “Remote Desktop” for Smartphones
  “Remote Desktop” for Smartphones
  (tags: mobile windows smartphone remote desktop)

I’m going to have to find a better way of presenting my links.  With the amount of time I have for blogging, daily posts with my links seem to wipe out all my posts with content.  I think I’ll turn off my del.icio.us integration for awhile while I ponder a different scheme.

Scoble constantly raves about NewsGator.  I don’t get it.  His main point everytime I notice him talking about it, is it’s sync’ed read/unread status between it’s web/PC/mobile versions.  Not enough to get me to switch since I get that with a consistent interface with Bloglines.  Bloglines has a mobile-friendly version of their site for viewing/reading on a mobile (which works surprisngly well over a plain ole GPRS connection) and everywhere else I could possibly want to read my feeds.  Couple this with the additional Bloglines features and you have a pretty killer app.

Now, I’m definitely not a “web apps are the future” sort of guy,but in this instance it seems like the way to go.

Any other reasons to give NewGator a try?

Scobleizer – Microsoft Geek Blogger » Outlook PM talks about upcoming RSS integration

PS  Wrote this post with the Performancing blogging extension in Firefox.  This thing rocks.