Explodopop Batteries. . .

Dec 19, 2006 at 3:37 PM
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Quickie blogging because I'm still sick. . .

If your Apple, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo computer users ignored that battery recall a few months ago, the inflate-o-battery may be waiting for you.
Joy of joys -- the smugness of Apple ads have annoyed a few too many people. January will be the Month of Apple bugs, where a vigilante security researcher will point out unfixed security bugs in Apple software. Despite protests by many fanatics, there likely are security flaws in OS X. As complicated as an operating system is, you can't assume otherwise. And given that Apple had a few doozies of their own not so very long ago really should have ended the debate a while ago. Then again, Apple still sings backup in their own Amen Chorus. And thus driving people to try to knock them down a peg or two.

(One interesting argument given to advance the case that OS X is "flaw-free" is the argument that if this was untrue, then why don't Macs have an equal share of malware. This argument is repeated ad-infinitum at places like MacDailyNews. For those who ever took biology, it is shown that it is far harder for of a disease vector to take root unless a critical mass of infect-able hosts exists. A small scattered population is much much harder to infect.)

Even with all of the "haterating" above, I still think the PowerBook...I mean MacBook Pro is a nice looking, nicely designed machine. (If anyone in blog-land wants to send money to help me buy, I'll gladly accept. Hey, I had to try)
Elsewhere, two pieces wondering how open the new MS Office open standards are: Bob Sutor, Andrew Shebanow.
Joseph Barbera died yesterday. Mark Evanier has been posting lots of stuff about him this week.
Fed Ex retrieved my warranty and delivered it to me.
I did not get a MacBook Pro. I got an HP Pavilion for about $900 less. A benefit is getting a discrete graphics card at $1100 (as the $1100 MacBook only comes with Intel's integrated graphics chip).