Wednesday, December 28, 2011
This kind of this is the best argument for how we've strayed from
respresentation of the people into a policitical oligarcy:
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/12/13/the-political-one-percent-of-the-one-percent/
Categories: Rants, Things to learn
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Today I posted a note to a local list and misspelled "upgrade" as
"ungrade". Todd Lewis, an excellent fellow all around whom I have known
for too many years to think about, commented in a reply to my message:
Hey, Bil! I know it was a typo, but I really like the word: ungrade.
Because until a few days after it's done, you don't really know if it
was an upgrade, downgrade, degrade, retrograde, or what. "Ungrade"
sounds like you're stepping off into an unknown state, which is exactly
what's happening.
He's exactly right, and I wish I had thought of it. For example, I
recently thought I was upgrading my workstation from Snow Leopard to
Lion, but I decided I couldn't stand Lion yet. As as aside, I have about
decided that you should only do one major system upgrade on mac
hardware, since I often have problem with the second major rev, but in
fairness, I'm pretty hard on the software. But I digress. I lived with
Lion for a week or so, decided to go back, and found it a difficult
process involving blanking drives and mounting machines in target disk
mode. So it wasn't an upgrade, clearly, nor a downgrade, since the
downgrade was going back to Snow. Ungrade suits perfectly, and it will
the next time I try Lion as I'll have a cold ball of concern in my soul
as I start the installer.
Categories: Rants, Things to learn