There seems to be a certain point in the evening, past which my staying out of bed renders me useless for sleep until I've managed to exhaust myself. As you may have guessed, this appears to be one of those occasions. Unfortunately, I haven't quite managed to suss out just when during the evening I reach that point.
This arrangement is a bit of a curse.
It can indeed be very bad because lack of sleep can be very, very bad for you. Especially the cumulative effects of several nights worth of lack of sleep.
In one way, though, it can be a kind of good thing.
Alone in the night, I tend to become bored and surf the net, and having gotten over any interest in porn a long time ago — let's face it, I prefer the real thing — I tend to find some interesting things floating out there in the cyber ether.
One of these delicious things is Senuti, a handy little application for copying the songs off your iPod onto your computer. This is, I can tell you, ever so much easier than having to lug your 160GB external hard drive — you know, the one on which you keep all your music — around so you can download your music onto another computer. So much easier on the back.
Staying awake at night has left me with a lot of time to ponder the eternal question:
"Mac or PC?"
I'm about to buy a new computer, and the horror stories I've heard about what a memory hog Windows Vista™ is, along with the equally horrifying stories of the constant security warnings that accompany every click has driven me to the very real edge of switching to the other team.
The decision is complicated, though, by a couple of things.
First of all, there's no freaking Page Up/Page Down button on a Mac. There's no easy way, other than clicking on a scroll bar, to move up or down in a window by one pane. I was raised on a Windows machine, and I freakin' love my Page Up/Page Down buttons for that functionality.
Also, although I often complain about Windows having sixteen ways to do everything, I really like the fact that there's a keyboard shortcut for just about every operation, and even if there isn't, you can always hit the ALT key in combination with some letter key to get yourself quickly to the menu bar, and from there you can generally hit some combo of keys to get the function you desire.
Less so on the Mac.
So, it's all gonna require a lot of thought.
Of course, that's okay, since it's going to take me the rest of my life to save for whatever computer I decide to buy.
Welcome to the poorhouse, baby.
This arrangement is a bit of a curse.
It can indeed be very bad because lack of sleep can be very, very bad for you. Especially the cumulative effects of several nights worth of lack of sleep.
In one way, though, it can be a kind of good thing.
Alone in the night, I tend to become bored and surf the net, and having gotten over any interest in porn a long time ago — let's face it, I prefer the real thing — I tend to find some interesting things floating out there in the cyber ether.
One of these delicious things is Senuti, a handy little application for copying the songs off your iPod onto your computer. This is, I can tell you, ever so much easier than having to lug your 160GB external hard drive — you know, the one on which you keep all your music — around so you can download your music onto another computer. So much easier on the back.
Staying awake at night has left me with a lot of time to ponder the eternal question:
"Mac or PC?"I'm about to buy a new computer, and the horror stories I've heard about what a memory hog Windows Vista™ is, along with the equally horrifying stories of the constant security warnings that accompany every click has driven me to the very real edge of switching to the other team.
The decision is complicated, though, by a couple of things.
First of all, there's no freaking Page Up/Page Down button on a Mac. There's no easy way, other than clicking on a scroll bar, to move up or down in a window by one pane. I was raised on a Windows machine, and I freakin' love my Page Up/Page Down buttons for that functionality.
Also, although I often complain about Windows having sixteen ways to do everything, I really like the fact that there's a keyboard shortcut for just about every operation, and even if there isn't, you can always hit the ALT key in combination with some letter key to get yourself quickly to the menu bar, and from there you can generally hit some combo of keys to get the function you desire.
Less so on the Mac.
So, it's all gonna require a lot of thought.
Of course, that's okay, since it's going to take me the rest of my life to save for whatever computer I decide to buy.
Welcome to the poorhouse, baby.
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