It was a dark and stormy night. While on a book deadline, Merlin Mann decided to upgrade his five Apple computers:
Nota bene: That is just so much more difficult than it sounds. Believe me. Taking into account Dot-Me, Back to My Mac, Dropbox, and on and on and on. It’s…nuts. The no-maintenance “cloud” is a myth that only holds up under the influence of the heady radon fumes in your Mom’s basement. Even when everything’s working flawlessly: safe, secure, AND dependable multi-box maintenance is crazy, quantum, fractal hard.
Hello, Typepad is becoming the home of 3-10 day old memes. Proposed tagline: "Buzzfeed for humans," or "Buzzfeed, without the porn." Speaking of humans, I love Merlin! Totally, totally love him. But dude, you're doing it wrong. The definition of a power user is someone who doesn't work this hard, it seems as if you've tied yourself in knots.
My advice is to finish your novel on a clamshell iBook running OS 9 and when your done, upgrade the rest of your personal data center to the most recent Apple operating system release (as a reward).
My favorite part of this post is the description of Hello, TypePad as "Buzzfeed for Humans" since it implies that Buzzfeed isn't for humans. Which it's not. It's for bots.
Oh, and yeah -- I agree.
Posted by: Michael Sippey | September 03, 2009 at 02:26 AM
I miss my clamshell iBook. That thing was awesome. And solid as a rock.
Posted by: Xris Ernest Hall | September 03, 2009 at 02:47 AM