Saturday, August 16, 2008
Slept in. I realized yesterday my profound disappointment and continuing decline in faith in Apple. I had been searching for files on my computer using Spotlight and it didn't find the files I expected it to find. So then I started searching for filenames that I knew existed, and it still wouldn't find those! All these files were local to my computer. At work, sometime within the past few days, Spotlight wasn't finding files on my network drives, even with the Command+F method of finding that I previously thought had worked. (I am already resigned that top-right-corner Spotlight will not find files on network folders no matter what you do.) So now, in my mind, I have added Spotlight to my list of Apple Features and Technologies Which I No Longer Trust, which includes FileVault, Active Directory, cd and dvd burning (especially multisession dvd). In the short time that I have been using Apple hardware and software daily at home and at work, I find it impossible to understand how some people have unrestricted faith in Apple. Yes, some things work very well, but a surprisingly large number of things do not. If you really use Apple products, you have to know, deep down at least, that Apple isn't everything it claims to be. Blocked benlance1 on twitter—spammer. Two requirements that I am guessing have been missing from all calendar application functional specifications in history: (1) I will never see duplicates. (2) I will never have all—or nearly all—my calendar data deleted without a guaranteed-to-work, easy, and immediate recovery process. Someone add these to the list today, please. It's time. Spent the morning doing nothing at home. In the afternoon I drove to my sister's family's house in Sunnyvale for a birthday pool party for my niece Kiana who turns 3 this year. Shawn, Lance, Grace, and Drew were there, too, as well as Dexter, Chika, Johnson, Samantha. We all admired the new poolside bbq station, complete with fancy grill, sink, and refrigerator. Played a quick game of chess with Jeremy.