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I just wanted to say that I hope for anyone who is reading my most likely boring blog likes my new profile image. I thought one was in order. For anyone not familiar, it's of the Giralda in Seville, Spain. During Moorish occupation it was the city's minaret. I studied there during college and it is truly a beautiful city. Enough of my pitch for Spanish tourism...

I made it through most of the readings for this week yesterday and might I say they were just a wee bit boring. There are so many things I could say on this, but I'll begin with APPLE! and Mac OSX. I have always been an apple girl. Although there was a time when I did have a toshiba lap top (shhh don't tell Steve Jobs), I did rediscover my apple side almost three years ago when I proudly walked myself down to the almost too hop Apple store in Shadyside and got myself a new lap top whom I affectionately call "Whitey" (it's white in case you couldn't infer). For me, the average computer user, apple everything is great. Although I am constantly getting into debates over apple vs. windows vs. microsoft, etc with my boyfriend, a software developer as well as bonafide apple hater at times, I'll always think they're the best suited for me. I know that a lot of people opt for apple products because they're the cool thing to have and they're so sleek and snazzy, I didn't get my macbook for those reasons (maybe my ipod but not my comp). I got them because I feel they are user friendly and designed for people who didn't receive a BS in Comp Sci. When I had my pc laptop, I was constantly getting viruses regardless of the amount of times I ran updates/security checks/installed new security software. Although I have read that apple computers are starting to become the target of more security threats, I still feel that they offer an overall better package in terms of security and convenience. Sure they cost more but you are paying for a ton of behind the scenes stuff, something that won't be had on your $300 lap top from Walmart of Best Buy.

In doing some of the readings this week, I constantly was thinking "wow" to myself. Although you know there exist operating systems beyond those put out by Apple and Windows, it's still amazing and even a bit intimidating to read about the numerous other ones. I still remember my first day of classes and I went up to the 8th floor lab to check my email. I sat down at what I guess was a Sun? computer and thought, "well this is certainly different but I'm sure I can figure it out." Lo and behold I couldn't figure out how to get started and kinda slunk away before any of the smart tele people could see my ignorance. It goes to show you that there is not one person who can't feel embarassed about something-sometimes for me technology is it.

This is somewhat of a long post, so I'll save my thoughts on Unix and Linux until next time.
Au revoir les enfants (great movie!)