Dont Trust This Guy why not take my word for it? A blog by Jim Jeffers

Dealing with indecisiveness has been one of the greatest challenges in my life. For the past year or so I’ve been saying I would rebuild this site as my own custom piece of software. I like to do things, especially things I understand, my own way. But what’s the point? The tool I’m using right now is fine. Probably one of the best there is for this sort of thing. So instead of rejecting the good in WordPress I’m just going to embrace it and stick with it. It’s time to get with it as opposed to always dreaming the grass is greener.

There are a few things I’ve learned from building and running my two blogs for the past three years. One, features our frivolous and purpose is key. Two, I finally got off my bum and set up “Akismet”:http://www.akismet.com as I have been told many times by my friends. Over the past four months alone I have gotten more sexual invitations, and advice on boner pills than I care to share with you. Not to mention, the deceptive hollow compliments from pro-spammers trying to seek my approval of their comments. I tell you I have had to put up with more suck-ups in the six months than Tony Soprano has had to deal with in all seven seasons of the Sopranos combined.

Lessons aside the thought of this writing is the terror of the reality that is marketing. Blogging and social software in general is a tool so people can interact with people in a meaningful way. It allows us to take advantage of a medium to connect to one another in ways we otherwise just could not. But in the present day, people such as my self, who set to share and discuss our thoughts, feelings, opinions, and intellect (intellect is often lacking) are forced to monitor for spam and install plug-ins and become part of a world wide collaborative software network to prevent it further and… it’s just exhausting and disturbing.

I dislike this abuse. This abuse has destroyed email. This abuse can destroy any form of communication if we let it get out of hand. This abuse is what makes marketing feel and seem terrible. What is acceptable and what is not? If only all of us could maintain a higher awareness of the affect some of these things we may do have on others.

Oh yeah.. I almost forgot DontTrustThisGuy.com redesign coming soon. Until then no design at all. Just the plain vanilla with peppermint flavor crystals style of the wordpress’ modern default theme.

I think the biggest advantage to using Apple has always been the fact that you have the hardware and software provider united as one. It gives them the control to create a more polished experience since the software can be more specialized and tailored to the hardware it runs on. In contrast, a conventional PC can run on multiple operating systems which is problematic for two reasons: 1.) the OS developer must make his software more versatile so that it can work with most hardware 2.) the hardware manufacturer must work within the operating systems limitations to create custom UI functions that integrate with their technology innovations. This is where Apple has always had a clear advantage: If they want the hardware to interact with their software in a special way they can just expand the limitations of the operating system. To my knowledge, it is a luxury no other computer manufacturer has.

But this is also a problem. Apple has been silently testing Rossetta the new version of OSX that could run off X86 processors for years. Of course they had to be tight lipped about it because they didn’t want the public to know about the possible switch; but this has come at a cost to the third party developer. The dilemma now is that major vendors such as Adobe, and even Microsoft are not prepared for the early transition to Intel. So the ETA for an Intel compatible version of Adobe CS is unknown. This holds true for pretty much all major software packages presently available on Mac.

Where does this leave you and me? Well, if you’re a pro working on a Mac there is no point in upgrading yet. The software you use isn’t ready yet. Sure you can run the PowerPC versions of these packages on the Intel based macs but the benefits of the additional processing power are diminished because the OS now needs to run an emulator to simulate power pc processes. It also means if you don’t have a mac but wanted to make a switch you don’t know what to buy. Intel macs aren’t widely supported yet. Power PC macs are on the way out.. The message to the consumer is they should hold off and delay their purchase. This is just a bad business scenario. I love Apple products and I am a huge advocate of the Apple brand.

I just hope they can remedy this scenario as soon as possible.