Quarter Life Crisis

The world according to Sven-S. Porst

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New Week

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I started the week with little sleep, having to finish preparing a seminar talk I just delivered. Of course certain points that I thought I had understood started seeming wrong at the last minute.

Now I try to avoid having to start marking. I'm upset with the students as they've proven to be lazy bastards. Not much fun to be expected there.

When taking my Powerbook out of its sleeve a minute ago, I mus have accidentally released the battery which dropped out of the computer and onto the floor. Struck by panic and the though "any unsaved documents?" I needed a while to fumble it back into the computer. To my surprise, it hadn't switched off but was still "breathing" away peacefully and worked normally afterwards. There must be some kind of short-term backup-power in the Powerbook. Neat.

John Gruber gives down-to-earth explanations for Mac users' loyalty in an interview.

the same is true of almost anything. if you couldn't tell the difference between a $400 bicycle and a $1,000 bicycle, would you assume there was no difference? of course not -- you'd assume the differences were subtle, but appreciable by serious cyclists.

Hooray, I am not the only one to have noticed that the mixing faucet is something that's hard to find in Britain (minus its airports). I never really go used to it.

June 2, 2003, 16:27

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