Category Archives: Geekery

Mac or PC

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Today was the day Google was sending 100,000 invites to ordinary users. I had submited my email long ago to be in this list. But I didn’t get any. I wasn’t that hopeful since by the time I got to know about it, for sure there were more than 100,000 people who knew sooner. But I checked my email every couple of minutes anyway!

Waiting

I am also waiting for Windows 7 to arrive. I’ve heard so many good things about it and I wanna clean out my laptop and install the new Windows on it, like a fresh start.

Yes, I am one of those people who wants to try all the new things. I get excited about everything new and feel left out if I’m not one of the first ones to try it. But at the same time I have a certain resistance to switch. As long as I can keep my old tools I am OK with having new ones. But if this means letting go, I can’t do it that easily.

One of those is Windows. All around me people are switching to Macs. We even bought a Mac as our family desktop. All the cool people have Macs. But I still love my Windows. No, I can’t say I love it. I get frustrated with it. With how slow it is. How I have to be so careful with viruses. How noisy my PC is and how it doesn’t have the pretty glass screen Macs have. But I feel at home in Windows. I’ve lived in its environment since my 8th grade. In the Macro class I go to 90% of people have Macs. A lot of it has to do with the back to school promotion Apple has with the free ipod touch, but I’m starting to feel left out. Good thing we don’t have the money to buy a new laptop for me and my dear Vaio still works, so I don’t have to decide now. Let’s see how Windows 7 is. Maybe PCs become the fashion again!

The Woman in White

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All this time I didn’t write about the books I’ve read I was looking for a good plugin for wordpress that let’s me search in Amazon and then insert the link here. I know I could have just search in the website myself, but I have a similar plugin for Flickr and it’s awesome and I wanted to have one for Amazon. I didn’t find anything good. The nearest thing I found was Amazon Media Manager. I installed it but it didn’t work since Amazon decided to change its system right now. The AMM website promises an update but I wanted it now. So I searched and found the solution. But now the real problem is that I can’t use the plugin! Funny? I know.

So for now I will go the usual rout and wait for some better plugin.

As I said in the previous post I started reading the books I already have in my own library. I started with The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.

The Woman in White

The Woman in White

I hadn’t bought the book myself. A. had bought it once he had to spend some time in Penn. station. He kept telling me that it’s a good book but once I started it and it seemed one of those 19th century books with lots of redundant descriptions and I gave it up. But this time I forced myself to go on. And it became really interesting and at times I was tempted to skip a couple of pages to see what happens next. It is a mystery novel and although it is old (apparently one of the first ones in this genre) it is very well written. I specially liked how the psychology of people was developed. I should say the style of writing (the description of clothes and environment and … ) sometimes gets tiresome. But it is definitely worth the patience.