"century mark..."

This makes the 100th entry into my humble blog. Not visited at all maybe, but that's 100 entries.

Today I learned even more about Mac OS X and more on peoplesoft. And I visited with the mentor again. I ended up with a different one thanks to a department shift.

I did do more with the mentor today. Not going to say what exactly. It was very informative however.

Sounds like next week I'll be getting my own cubicle. Ok I think it's going to take a month or so to come to realization I'm actually working for Apple Computer. I'm just not getting that conceptually yet. I work for apple. Nope, nope still not gettin' it.

Actually what this is starting to feel like is just another brand of a particular product with all the for-instances that go along. It would be like working for HP and supporting HP printers in particular. They'd have some things to learn about and I wouldn't know the ins and outs of HP printers either. So like an HP printer I just have to learn Mac OS, PeopleSoft and supporting customers on/via those two items in a world-class best-of way.

Oh and it's no secret apple has a few instances of PCs here there. They have a "make the switch" line for users converting from PC to Mac. Since I am essentially switching from PC to Mac that'd be a good place for me (it would be familiar territory).

There's also iTunes for PC. That's another thing: there's a little phobia about referring to XP apparently. It's always "PC". This term is a little out-dated technically. Just say either "Intel platform" or "Windows". PC throws back to the IBM dominated clone compatible 80s/large part of 90s. But now? Probably referring to Windows since Linux apparently doesn't exist at apple. At least no one's mentioned it. According to an article on Slashdot.org Linux has a larger desktop user base already, although some how I doubt the validity of this claim. Based on no facts what-so-ever, just a feeling.

It occurred to me I should be careful on this unread site since for all I know some private investigator is researching my background and could find this. The odds are against such a through investigation or find it but I'm paranoid.

For the record this isn't for co-worker consumption (I won't be telling co-workers this web address, I never use my real name/city and I don't give anything away anyway).

Not that this will make any difference.

I did notice a few things about Mac OS X that are drawbacks to Windows-etc. line. Namely, and perhaps I'm the only one who does this, I can hold down control in a text document or any other text-related program and hit the arrow keys to jump from one word to the next. Hold shift with control and select as I jump from one word to the next. I love that feature! And it's universal across programs. But not on OS X. They make you use an icky mouse (insert puke sound here). That's OS 10.3.4 for the record. I think. A minor feature, absent from the beloved Mac. And the open-apple+C for copy? It's ctrl+c that's the ways I likes it...

Ok now I'm done. Happy 100th entry to me.

  ¶ 7:31 PM