Friday, November 16, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Self study work. Lunch: Panda Express. My fortune: Today is a good day for being with a companion. Today Patrick used the persimmons that Melissa gave me on Sunday. Dinner at home with Patrick: pork loin with diced persimmon, steamed asparagus. Dessert: Patrick baked a cinnamon persimmon coffee cake. Delicious! Lately I've been wondering why OS X people have to repair disk permissions when things go wrong. It's kind of like defrag in Windows—you shouldn't have to do it, but it's there, you do it when a problem happens, and—sometimes—things get better. To me, repair disk permissions in Disk Utility goes against the "it just works" principle (aka recent marketing message) of Apple and OS X. I see this as a stain on the reputation of Apple that, apparantly, cannot easily be washed away. It also reminds me of restarting with extensions off in Mac OS 9 and earlier in that that was something that computer users shouldn't ever have to do if everything is designed properly. I don't believe that Microsoft claims that XP or Vista "just works"—and I respect them for that much. Computer maintenance for Patrick. Downloaded and installed Flock 1.0 for Patrick and me. I stopped using an earlier beta because of a big problem with bookmark importing. Now that 1.0.1 is out, I'll give Flock another chance.