OS; Change in the wind

Context:
I have been a (proud) Windows fanboy since Win3.11.
At Uni I studied physics, by the end of my masters, I knew I wanted to be a developer; so I learnt C, and started building a career based on developing software for Windows. Back in the day, Windows was brilliant, it dominated desktops, gave me a single popular platform so I could build skills and get work. Sure there were challenges, but that's software development.

I just received a 'disturbing' email from my dad.
I received the email via gmail (Google). I gave up on Outlook about 3 months ago, too many problems trying to look after .pst files, could never find old emails in outlook.. it all got too hard so I imported everything to GMail.
The email was popped up on my iPad (Apple), using Google mobile-sync.
Yesterday I gave up on windows-live in favor of Blogger (Google), a close call, nearly went Wordpress.

So, the subject of this email:

Bought a Mac.

And the content:

Well I finally got so sick of Vista I bought a Mac. 500gig 21.5" screen.
Vista was the cause of my not being able to access Bigpond (4 weeks of Technical support) by doing something to the usb ports and it also again stopped the disc drive from working so I couldn't install Windows 7
Installed the wireless Broadband onto the Mack and away it went no problem.

This time last year, I knew one person with a Mac; the wife's boss.. he's in the 'creative' music industry, so I forgave him because he has to be 'hip'.

Today: My dad, and 2 of my sister-in-laws' use Mac's.
I don't have a big social circle; so in my little corner of the world, this is a massive change.

This is one of those; things that make you go hmmmm....

P.S Gah, trying to write this blog; IE keeps crashing???... looks like I'm going Crome.

A new day, a change of blog

Ok, firstly; I'm a lurker.
I lurk here, I lurk there... I lol, but rarely contrib.

Ever since getting an iPad a few months ago, my lurking has almost reached a professional level.

In a possibly futile attempt, I'm going to try blogging. If nothing else, I'll have my own little corner of the net to post in.

What you (should) find here:

1. Unstructured ramblings about software development.
2. Bad spelling, bad English bad punctuation.
3. The occasional curse words
4. Posts that are nothing but likes to stuff.
5. Lists... I like lists.