Anna the Bot... and other stuff

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

And it has apparently hit the charts or something in Europe.
...bans all the spammers... oy.

Meanwhile, back in the jungle...

Apple consistently delivers stuff that I've wanted since I was a kid. The original iBook, the G4 Cube, the alunimum PowerBook, AirPort, the Mac mini, GarageBand, and AirPort Express.

AirPort Express with AirTunes (my latest techno acquisition) is the awesomest. Since I already have a real AirPort base station, I was able to get the AirPort Express set up in my livingroom (all hooked into my stereo and everything) in about 2 minutes. Two minutes. Just two minutes and I was able to stream music from any computer in the house to the stereo.

I don't understand why more technology doesn't work this way. Plug it in, it goes. Done. I've heard other people complain that computers are too hard to figure out and they should be easier... as easy to operate as a car. Personally, I beleive that's grossly over-simplifying. That's like saying that assembling an M1-Abrams should be as easy as making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Not that working a computer is that difficult, but it's a matter of comparing apples to wrenches.
But back to the other thing; laugh at the simplicity of Apple products if you will, but face it: the more easy it is to use, the more likely it is that folks will use it. And the more easy it is, the more baffling it is as to why everything isn't that way. To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke:

Any technology distiguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Anywho... I do sometimes miss my tangerine iBook. *sigh* It was a well travelled iBook... San Diego, CA - San Francisco, CA - Kona, HI - New York, NY... and I hope that it's still travelling.

*sniff*