Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
I just got a notice from Software Update that it needs to reboot my computer to complete the installation of an update of Safari. Since when is a web browser part of the operating system, Apple?
It’s bad enough you have to reboot when they update Quicktime, but this is just a little stupid.
There’s something wrong. I don’t know what it is. All I know is that in the course of this week, I’ve blown up at the pilots on rec.aviation.piloting for telling lies about Al Gore[1], and then had an even bigger blow up at my best friends in the world on a couple of mailing lists. I’m not just talking about you know, some amusing list that some people read once or twice a day, I’m talking about lists that basically my life revolves around. I read these lists first thing when I wake up in the morning, last thing before I go to be at night, I carry a Treo with a data plan and an imap mail reader so I can read it when I’m walking to the bathroom or at lunch, in business meetings, and during any lull in conversation or any down time at all. I hate to go more than a few minutes between my fixes. Yes, I’m obsessed. Probably in a not very healthy way.
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