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Mac Mojo : Friday Links, on Saturday!

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I love the recursive nature of blogs :) September 1st I wrote this post about the Mac Mojo blogs, and today in their Mac Mojo : Friday Links, on Saturday! post they linked back to me, and now I’ve linked back to them to show you (my regular viewers) that they linked to me….. yeek.

Anyway, welcome to all who happen to come through the link from Mac Mojo! You’re welcome to stay. We’ve got comics up there at the top of the page (3 categories worth if you look to the left) and a blog here in the bottom half, and a forum in that itty bitty link nobody but the spammers seems to be able to find.

Sheldon

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I have one and a quarter boxes of Wheat Thins at my desk. The guy on the other side of the wall usually has at least one (full) box as well. We have “a problem” with wheat thins. Remember those “an open box is an empty box” commercials? Yeah, that’s our problem.

I’m glad to see Sheldon’s grandfather has the same problem.

Whoo! I’m still a programmer!

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I wrote my first plugin, or rather significantly modified someone else’s plugin, to offer better comic navigation for the comics. If you’re on the homepage, you still have to click the “navigation links” link under the current comic to get to the nav links, but once you do that, you can now navigate through the archive by category — so if you just want to read the Get Outta My Head comics, you can do that, or just the Sketchy Theater, or just the Idiocy on the Internet. And the Comics category stays there so you can navigate through all the comics as well. This makes me happy :)

Next three orders of business: fix the left nav up because one of my images keeps stepping on it (might be “fix the image” instead) and then add some big ole buttons to access the forum and the store to the top somewhere.

But not right now. This programmer’s going to go get some sleep.

Mac Mojo

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Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has started a blog (or blog set) called Mac Mojo.

I read all the entries this morning and added it to my collection of RSS feeds. It’s a good read – a good look at the people who are making some products for Macs that frankly, make the Macintosh computer a more viable product in the marketplace.

I have to say I’m disappointed, though. A good two thirds of the comments on any given post are people either bitching about the features/products/missing products that are (or aren’t) on the Mac from Microsoft, or are people just calling Microsoft evil from the get-go.

Let’s not kid ourselves. I don’t like Windows. I’ve used every version of Windows since 98, all day every day at work since, well, 1999 at least. Windows drives me out of my mind. And I don’t agree with all of Microsoft’s business practices.

But Office, either for Windows or Mac, is a damn slick application once you shut Clippy off. And Office for Mac hasn’t crashed on me in an insanely long time. And it’s straight-on compatible with the Windows version at work, so I don’t have to go into the office to get stuff done. *

There’s no point in being angry and evil and mouthy and rude when commenting in a blog, even Microsoft’s. I’m disappointed that the Mac community’s voice, so far, has overwhemlingly proven right the incorrect belief that Mac users are a bunch of fanatic loonies.

This is a blog worth watching if you’re interested in the Macintosh, and also one that, if we’re all polite and reasonable in our posting, might actually occasionally effect change in the one place in Microsoft seriously concerned with listening to Mac users – the Mac BU.

* I was one of those folks that was hoping that when the government was muttering about splitting Microsoft, they’d separate Windows from Office. With any luck, Windows would have failed outright and Office would still have flourished.