10th of December, 2009

Unsuccessfully tried to edit the left bar on this wiki, it keeps mystifying me how to use this wiki. No longer working from home since it is near impossible to concentrate there sometimes.

12th of July, 2009

I like this analogy from http://www.vistanews.com/?id=32:

"Using a Mac is like living in a downtown penthouse. You have everything done for you and it all looks very slick, but you pay a high price. You have a doorman to pamper you and somebody else takes care of the maintenance, but you can't make a lot of changes to the property.

"Using Windows is like living in the suburbs. You get more square footage for your dollar but you have to mow your own lawn and when something goes wrong, you have to fix it yourself or pay someone extra to do it. You can make changes to your property but you might have to deal with deed restrictions or city ordinances or homeowner association rules.

"Using Linux is like living out in the country. Compared to the other options, property is dirt cheap and you can do whatever you want to it without having to follow codes and get inspections. But you'll probably have to do a lot more of the work yourself and you need a lot of building expertise or else you may get yourself into big trouble and find your house falling down all around you because you didn't do it correctly."

Since I like living in the suburbs, I choose Windows too.

27th of March, 2009

I haven't maintained an online diary for over a year now. Mostly due to a shock caused by ELVISBrain metamorphosing from UseModWiki to TWiki (which, by the way, have just lost my entire original entry because I made a mistake of using WYSIWYG editor). I will see if I can make more entries in the future, but for now you can find my entries from 2003 to 2007 here:

http://www.elvis.ac.nz/brain?DiaryOfAlexPotanin/EarlierEntries