It’s like the folks at Movable Type read my mind. This TrackBack thingie had me scratching my head. Now there is A Beginner’s Guide to TrackBack, complete with a Quicktime demo. So far I’ve retroactively pinged two people’s blog entries. Watch out you might be next - I’m a lean, mean pinging machine!
That was the byline promoting Pati Poblete’s Living column in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday.
In an article referenced in the previous post, we had a writer liken a Macintosh user to a Communist. Elsewhere, the late Rodney O. Lain, the “iBrotha,” drew parallelisms between the Macintosh and being a racial minority. Why do some marginalized groups identify with the Macintosh? Surely, the status of the Mac as the underdog of the computer industry has fostered these comparisons, but devotion to Apple computers itself has been described as cult-like.
The Mac vs. PC debate has been compared to a religious war. But indications show that this war is waning, especially after the introduction of OS X. Interestingly, somethingawful.com has attempted to find an analogy between religious fanaticism and Mac fanaticism in connection with the Christian Macintosh Users Group. Somethingawful.com’s comments, however, have turned out to be contrived and uninformed. Additionally, the expected barrage of vindictive e-mail directed at CMUG coming from somethingawful.com readers never came to pass.
Personally, I’ve been guilty in the past of defending my platform of choice more than my faith. Getting all worked up about temporal things was rather silly.
Matt. 6:19-21 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Former Vice President Al Gore joins Apple’s board of directors, filling a spot left vacant by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Hmmm, would Gore now claim he “took the initiative” in creating the Macintosh? Tee-hee.
Update: Ultra-conservative Rush Limbaugh is none too happy about the Apple-Gore news. Rush is an avid Mac user and is horrified that “Algore” has been “elected” to Apple. Well, he should know that Steve Jobs himself is a “vegan-Hinduist-Democrat.” But he probably finds consolation in the fact that the Commander-in-Chief is also a Mac user. Anyway, as folk from both sides of the political divide share a common computing platform, I say that the Macintosh is the computer “for all of us.”
The new Asian Art Museum opens tomorrow in the recommissioned old San Francisco Main Library at Civic Center, closer to the hustle and bustle of downtown San Francisco. My last visit to the museum was at its old home in serene Golden Gate Park during an exhibit of Filipino contemporary artists’ work.