Dvorak.org/blog… An eyesore…
Yup, so listening to my Mac podcasts this week, some bozo named John C. Dvorak keeps spouting his distorted reality of tech. Every five minutes you hear this boob blabber “Dvorak-slash-blog!, Dvorak-slash-BLOG!”. Apparently, he’s got every other fellow panelist in said podcast brainwashed because they keep puking it out, too! So I caved in, I checked out the blog.
Was this site squeezed out of a another pimple of a site? Uggggg-Leeeee. It looks like something out of 1994, where neither web aesthetics nor digg or del.icio.us functionality wasn’t even a fart of a notion among web-mongers. Yuck.
Seriously though. Content on the blog is phenomenal and Mr. Dvorak is a great tech-mind. I just wanted to give a spoof shout-out to the old TechTV crew, who waxed some great nostalgia in this weeks TWiT podcast. Paul Allen will go down in the text books alongside Bush and that guy who tried to start the N-Gage gaming system. But seriously, John, the site is Fugly.
09.22.07
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Worst game I have ever played, period.
Now before I get flamed by Xbox360 fanboys enthusiasts, let me tell you the one single fact why I hate this game. I spent a good portion of a weekend to go through the arduous task of curing my characters Vampirism. Don’t get me wrong, the lush and live world sucked me right into my Vizio 32″ HDTV in 1080i. The incredible sound, all in Dolby Digital through optical link, was an absolutely pleasure to this audiophiles ears. I actually enjoyed every second of it, until a fatal bug caused me unable to retrieve said cure from an NPC in the world of Oblivion… all that time wasted, and what’s worse is the flawed auto-save function locked me into the game, after the fact!
Unbelievable to me that such a critically acclaimed game has such a fatal flaw. Oh, well. Back to finishing Bioshock I guess… now that is an incredible game.
OK Apple, are you listening.
So far here’s the run down on the internets. Yes, you are making a boatload of money, but please, we beg you, do not turn into this decades Microsoft. A lot of analyst are fearing the far reaching arm of Apple, stating that with every leap and bound in product and services, you are losing your core values, and in effect, your core customers hearts.
I wonder if the Halo effect of the iPhone has sold a reasonable amount of new Macs? I really hope so, that’s how you got me Apple, with that sweet 5th gen iPod Video. I guess we’ll see in the 07′ Q4 reports.
New Apple Keyboard… you son-of-a-bitch.
Just got this baby back from The MacStore (we don’t have an official Apple store here in Salem, OR… closest one is one hour away). Anyway, I was really looking forward to this guy, partly because it’s bright shiny and new, and also because that damn white and plastic one that came with this iMac 17″ Intel Core 2 Duo is so hard to keep clean. Not only do we (my wife and I) have a two year old boy running a-muck, but I am no (can’t find a proper metaphor…) Mr. Clean! There’s chips and bread crumbs, random hair and forensic traces of my wife or I, and who the heck knows what else…
So, yeah hooked this baby up and BAM!, almost all of the advertised functions (go to Apple.com for a run down) do not work. WTF? but low and behold, Update 1.1 and POOF! still nothing. OK, Apple, pissing off a switcher here… And then, BINGO! update 1.2 comes along as a swoon song, ailing all my woes and making me fall in love yet again with another innate piece of technology. That, sweet, sweet technology.
