Scoble's thoughts on Microsoft make sense to me

I should explain my position on what's attracting me to the Macintosh platform. Developers have started supporting that platform in a major way. Where am I coming from? I used to be a Macintosh user ....

But, all my friends on the OS X platform keep showing me great little utilities and other things that are being released almost daily. What happened? Apple embraced Unix and by doing that Apple embraced developers. Why? There's a lot of Unix expertese out there. Lots of kids learned Unix in school. Lots more learned it on the job. Now Apple has joined a nice user interface with Unix, and developers are taking notice. 

...Oh, and Microsoft views its developers, not as partners who will help give users like me better products, but as "warriors" who must be convinced to not use Java. This is not the world I wanted to see come about. I should be able to buy a CD, turn it into digital files on my computer, and carry those files around with me. Soon, if this industry keeps going, I'm just gonna be marked as a criminal and I won't be able to use my own property the way I'd like.

...Can the government shut all of us down? No way. There's not enough resources in even Gates or Bush's war chests to figure out how to shut down all the Web sites in the world. There's a coming intellectual property battle, and I know who'll win. Webloggers. We're like ants. You can try to kill us, but we'll keep coming at you. I just wish Microsoft would get on our side and stop treating me like vermin. Eventually I'm gonna get the message and go use another product. There's not THAT much to like about Windows XP. [Scobleizer Radio Weblog]

Man do I agree with that rant (which I have seriously excerpted).  I was a big Macintosh afficionado from 1984 - 1992 but the peer pressure was goo great and I switched to Windows at work and then at home.  But now I'm thinking that if I could have an operating system with Unix under the hood and a cool iMac or a Ti Book I'd be happy.  I think from now on all of my home computers are going to be Mac's.  [Ernie the Attorney]

Ernie points to a nice post. Much better than my curse-filled rant on the whole copy-protection thing.

I can testify that switching to Mac is a pleasure. I'm 10-days into my Mac experience and loving every minute. I haven't missed Windows one little bit. Join the club Ernie, you won't be disappointed.

7:52:04 PM    

Just figured out all the trouble I was having getting the category pages to follow the layout of the Home page. I was selecting a theme for each category not realizing if I select "None" the category pages would just take on whatever theme assigned to the Home page.

I guess I should have clicked on the "question mark" sooner.

11:28:07 AM    

I've managed to get the navigator links to display correctly on the category pages. I opened up weblogData.root and found the navigator settings, made my changes and bingo it worked.

I don't know why that was necessary. It seems like changes made to the appearance of the navigator links under preferences should be carried over to the category pages.

11:03:33 AM