Rotten APPLE
DAMMIT, I'm on my second trip to the apple store to try to get my machine fixed. Yes that's right my machine is not booting up. After taking my computer over to IanK (thanks dudebrah) who runs circles on the powerbook he told me i was pretty much stuffed, so i took it to the GENIUS bar last night and William (very knowledgable at the U-Village Apple Store if you need anything look him up) he told me the same thing about being stuffed. So i'm here yet again. Somehow the OS got corrupted, bummer. I am actually kind of amazed that i have become more and more computer agnostic lately and am able to blog and do all of the same things that i do from my phone and any computer hooked to the Internet. If anybody wants to know the essence of Web 2.o i think it starts with being able to continue your workflow from any machine or device. That might be the dumbest thing i've ever said. or maybe not. This is going to be a long day. Damn You APPLE. DAMN YOooooooooou!!!!!
TAGS: apple store, DAMMIT, hosed
Update 1 - if you have filevault turned on, you will not be able to recover the data on your machine. lesson: unless you are a government employee with data that could get the entire country killed DO NOT TURN IT ON. GAWD DAMMIT
MORE TAGS: filevault, GAWD DAMMIT
Update 2 - After an archival and install (Ryan hooked me up with some disks, which somehow got lost, thanks Ryan) My Powerbook is up and running again. it's slow and it needs to be completely wiped and reformatted. SUPERGAWDDAMMIT (i am finding the word dammit ALL CAPS for some reason today really amusing). Good news is that the computer works, it's just slow. It might be the hard drive which is making this thing so slow and that would suck because then i gotta mail this bad boy back to APPLE and be completely with a computer for a few days. I had a hard enough time being with out it for a little over 24 hours. I might have to book a trip to fiji or somewhere remote and just take a vacation while that happens, i'll put it in an expense report and send it over to Steve Jobs. Don't worry Steve i'll be sure to take it easy on the mini-bar.
EVEN MORE TAGS: fiji, SUPERGAWDDAMMIT, steve jobs
TAGS: apple store, DAMMIT, hosed
Update 1 - if you have filevault turned on, you will not be able to recover the data on your machine. lesson: unless you are a government employee with data that could get the entire country killed DO NOT TURN IT ON. GAWD DAMMIT
MORE TAGS: filevault, GAWD DAMMIT
Update 2 - After an archival and install (Ryan hooked me up with some disks, which somehow got lost, thanks Ryan) My Powerbook is up and running again. it's slow and it needs to be completely wiped and reformatted. SUPERGAWDDAMMIT (i am finding the word dammit ALL CAPS for some reason today really amusing). Good news is that the computer works, it's just slow. It might be the hard drive which is making this thing so slow and that would suck because then i gotta mail this bad boy back to APPLE and be completely with a computer for a few days. I had a hard enough time being with out it for a little over 24 hours. I might have to book a trip to fiji or somewhere remote and just take a vacation while that happens, i'll put it in an expense report and send it over to Steve Jobs. Don't worry Steve i'll be sure to take it easy on the mini-bar.
EVEN MORE TAGS: fiji, SUPERGAWDDAMMIT, steve jobs
posted by weerjin at 10:19 AM
1 Comments:
I think you are right about web 2.0, that it's simply a clear segue to 3.0 - a time when the immediacy of media will reduce the need for larger machines. More room for innovative concepts in interactive media and with the agility of a simple cell phone interface. On site reporting in DIY media will have more power by way of mobility. Just as the pony express graduated to email, and newsreels morphed into Dateline NBC. With the introduction of iWeb at macworld today, the act of DIY is open. We've built our own doors, and been led to doors. The choice about which door to open is ours. the long tail is just another buzzphrase now, but those of us who eyed it from the beginning are forging the way for web 3.0. The more tools we have, the more infinite possibility we create, while the masses either play catch up or ingest. Either way, the consumer and the creator now have an opportunity to become a single entity, or at least have a choice in the matter. Infinite shelf space will change consumerism. DIY media is an earmark to a larger shift into what is now clearly the digital age. We've come a long way from vacuum tubes. We're goin mobile. Personally my plan is to climb Mt. Mckinley and blog about it from the top. From there, produce a podcast, call my dad, post a pic in flickr and add my experience in a factual way to a wiki. And then do some work because offices are soooo 2004. decentralize! Mobile technology works because we are in motion. No room for stasis, i think the surge in DIY media, and the segue to web3.0 will also go down as a time in art history when multiple artforms reinvented themselves causing a surge in nuance; this is our golden age. almost.
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