"It Ain't Gonna Be A Rabbit"

First things first:

What is the deal with that weird title, et alii*Step? Well I'll tell you.

I'm not one of these fancy people who got to learn Latin in school. I did learn a minute bit in a business law class I had to take and to my utter surprise it seemed a little interesting. So I took the common abbreviation et. al. and expanded it to it's fully spelling. et alii roughly translates to "and others" which is intended to be my overly-cerebral way of saying "I'm going to write about anything and everything I feel like, nothing specific".

The second part, *Step, should be somewhat familiar to any über-computer-geeks reading this. This is a reference to an old operating system, or more specifically an old interface for an operating system called NextSTEP. The operating system was made by one of the original creators of the Apple Macintosh (Steve Jobs) after he left Apple computer in the late 1980s. Since then there have been many graphical user interfaces (GUI) trying to mimic the look and feel. One of these GUIs was made for Microsoft Windows and is called LiteStep. The asterisk in computer terms is the "wild card" or "any and all examples of" if you want to think of that way. So to refer to any of these Next-inspired GUIs one would simply write *Step in place of listing a bunch of names.

Assuming any of that made sense, et alii*Step means "any and everything I want to write about; also I will refer to my favorite program, LiteStep."

Next? How about the title to today's blog entry: "It ain't going to be a rabbit". This is a reference to one of my favorite TV shows. I like coming up with creative and sometimes bizarre titles to things. But I got an idea this time: each of my blog entries will have a creative and/or bizarre title which may or may not have anything to do with the actual entry. This will be a reference to something some where in pop-culture which you will be free to try and figure out. The following entry will reveal the answer to the reference. These references will be very specialized and difficult, so ya know.