I'm finally home

After 20 years of being stuck with boring PCs, I'm now the proud owner of a real computer. A Mac! The vision of the DynaBook has been made into reality by the fantastic Apple PowerBook G4 12" 37 years later we can actually build the thing! Thank you Apple. I've also placed an order for a Mac Mini. I predict that the Mac Mini will sell like hot cakes, I'm doing my share promoting this ultra cool computer. It's the computer for the rest of the world - WHY does a PC look the same as it did 25 years ago - beats me! And yes Macs do run Microsoft Office. My dream home setup, Mac Mini, WLAN, wireless keyboard and mouse and a projector, and it will be a reality in 1-2 weeks. But why oh why didn't Bang & Olufsen (B&O) produce the Apple supertoys? It's actually a disgrace.

Speaking of disgrace, or rather disappointment. OpenOffice just doesn't work. I can work around the quirks, but the Mac is supposed to be a the computer with an "automatic transmission". Problems with OpenOffice ranges from the fact that use of danish characters in filenames is illegal to problems importing some Word documents. I'm switching to Microsoft Office for now - MS does know their apps - and the Mac versions are very sleek indeed.

After this disappointment, I'm happy to report that the universial instant messenger client Adium X works really well. It has a really cool design and it works perfectly with MSN. 5 minuttes after I got the link, I was MSN'ing from my PowerBook - highly recommended. According the the Adium website the following IM protocols are supported: AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, Rendezvous, Yahoo! Japan, Gadu-Gadu, Jabber, Napster, Lotus Sametime (via the Meanwhile plugin, and Novell GroupWise.

More about my experiences in Mac wonderland. I've taken the red pill - Kansas is going bye-bye.

The Danish society is keeping the danish population in a state of perpetual bliss, no-one are poor unless by choice, and very few are really rich. And due to the taxsystem, it's very difficult to become rich or set up a business - to break the curve. This, paired with the high prices of everything from real estate and cars to food, both parents are forced to work full time jobs in order to keep up with the Joneses. Still danes are often listed as the most content people in the world! The society isn't totally perfect, we do have homeless and beggars in the street.

Sounds familiar? The trouble in paradise - the fact that we have things like homeless people and Janteloven (see previous posts on this), could be a control mechanism, put in place just to make it acceptable to the human mind.

What is "The Matrix" - it's Denmark!

Don't get me wrong - I love Denmark - but we need more entrepreneurs. As it is now we're losing a lot of our brightest people to parts of the world where there is a deeply rooted tradition of entrepreneurship instead of Janteloven.

The SciFi cult classic "Invasion of the body snatchers" now has a new meaning to me. As a result of that movie and extreme levels of "common knowledge", I have now "hired" professional help to guide me through the maze of womankind - a WOMAN! I'll be forever thankful - I really needed a secondant (correct English?) in the corner!

Actually it was due to John - my old buddy - that I knew so much about that movie. I believe that it is one of his favorites too, I remember hearing about it from him some 25 years ago - where he was praising the movie in high terms - and I think he actually hates SciFi - where I'm a SciFi fanatic...It's actually because the movie isn't SciFi at all, but really is about McCarthism.

Imagine that - I'm actually giving thanks to John!!!

Just to make sure we're on the same page...I'm talking about the original movie from the 50ies, the ultimate cold war allegory (spelling?)