I’ve done it again… Mark all as read. And deleted a bunch of feeds. And at the same time added a bunch of personal blogs again.
The why is simple. I had to play, play with the newest gadget. But most of all because I’m sick of blogging about blogging and bloggers blogging about bloggers. Some days of reflexion confirmed what I already knew: blogging about blogging just isn’t my cup of cappuccino. It will mean a return to tech blogging.
And that MacBook is damn sexy.
Hasn’t fried my eggs once yet, but I could imagine getting used to it. Actually I haven’t used any of the Windows computers anymore since Friday. I discovered right-click for Mac already and even connected my Logitech Bluetooth mouse.
Adium is sexy, the built-in iSight sucks, just as much as .Mac does and window focus after Vista is annoying. I loved the auto hover focus, now I forget to click and start tying always.
My dock is full already and everything I need is installed. Even Remote Desktop for Mac.
Looking forward to go to the local Mac store soon and grab the new alu wireless keyboard, the mini-DVI adapter, a bunch of cases and last but not least Leopard.
On another note: of course it wasn’t going to take long before the iPod Touch was jailbroken. It took me four long days to resist the temptation.
This is my last Mac/Apple post here, future ones will be at the Apple Files Blog, but I first need to finish my design there. Cutline free. Now if only the [delete] button would work as [delete] and not [backspace].
Update: Can’t believe I had to figure this out all on my own, but [delete] is [fn] + [delete]. The keyboard delete is [backspace]. This obviously also is valid for the new wireless alu keyboard.
About Chyrp, WordPress and Early Adopterism
Some weeks ago I wrote about the reasons behind my switch from WordPress to Chyrp, but I had forgotten one aspect, I had made a huge error. Chyrp nowhere is in a state ready for prime time and that doesn’t concern the platform, the code behind chyrp.
The error I made was to jump on the bandwagon based on the technical aspect of the platform and even a small, but rather active community. Most important factor though, the main developer behind the platform, was an element I didn’t analyze well enough before making my choice and decision for Chyrp.
As beautiful as Chyrp may be, its problem lays in how Alex Suraci rushes, or not, things.
Alex is a talented coder and has built an awesome platform, but sadly his ambitions are too personal and too little focused on Chyrp for the lightweight blogging platform to become really successful. Alex is ambitious and as a young developer, constantly learning and discovering new coding languages. This sadly to the inconvenience of the Chyrp community and adopters. Some details: a PHP5 is coming… and pending. So is a Ruby port.
The community forums have been changed to a new, non Chyrp related, and unmoderated location at toogeneric. All in all Chyrp is a nice platform, one I will continue to watch, but for now the uncertainties made me switch back to good ol’ WordPress.
I should have known better being a regular early adopter.