If your job ever even makes you feel like doing any of the things in the videos in this link, then you are 100% in the wrong job. Get out before you hurt someone or someone hurts you.
http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/08/21/7-random-acts-of-office-violence/
This is a observation. I am a web/software developer. The other day I was watching the screencast of a conference in the states about some ruby on rails stuff. The thing that made me laugh is that when the camera panned to the audience, every single people there that had a laptop had a mac. And you could see the apple logo dimly glowing from the backs of each of the covers.
It is like this has become standard issue if you want to become a ruby on rails developer.
1. Buy a mac branded laptop
2. Install textmate because in the apple world ther is no other text editor out there
3. Sell your soul to the apple machine for life, because I guess it is sort of like the mafia, once you get in you can never get out. And the few that do have to go into the os protection program.
Me myself I don’t use macs. I am a Linux (more specifically Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com) user. And what a lot of people fail to realise is that all that fancy nonsense that you can do on osx canbe done on Linux, in fact the effects on Linux are a lot better and more fancy. All of that and it is free. But you know if people want to keep spending their hard earned cash on things because of ignorance, let them.
Oh, I forgot, Linux doesn’t have textmate. Ahh well I guess I better spend the £1200 or so to get a Mac machine because of that…
I think not.
Señor Internacional
Because I am someone that would like to have “no fixed abode”, I have decided to try and online everything that I would need to work and function in a ordinary manner. So here is a list of products that I use.
1. Zoho - Office applications like word processor, spreadsheet app, etc…
2. Remember The Milk - Task/ Todo list management
3. ADrive - 50GB of secure online storage. Better than carry around a usb stick if you know you are going to have an internet conection in my opinion.
4. Tuffmail - Email hosting provider. In my mind there is no other company out there that does as good a job as the Tuffmail. I have tried many, but most of them don’t come up to the mark. Tuffmail not only comes up to the mark, it passes that mark and leaves it so far behind that it looks like a dot in the distance.
5. Google Maps - Well, you got to know how to get to where you need to go. As well as search this is their best product. But apart from these two products I think that google products on the whole are crap and lack basic features. But I will save that rant for another post.
6. Bloglines - Simple and straight forward aggregate feed reader. I used to use Netvibes, but they have been Ajax’ed to death and they have started to move in the direction of facebook, and become a social network site. they should have just stuck to what they were good at. But again I will save that rant for another post.
Well I think those are the basics I need from day to day.
If you know anyother good ones then let me know.
Señor Internacional
Well I just thought that I would put this posting up because this blog has been down for so long. But I am back now, so expect so internacional blogging soon.
I think I may try and restore the old posts that I used to have on here, but I have to try and remember what they were. I am sure it’ll be okay.
Señor Internacional.
This is the Mate cup that I bought when I was in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I think it is a very nice cup. But a friend of my in Uruguay says that this cup is the kind that only tourist buy, because it is to flashy and shiny. Or it is the type of cup that the old ladies use when the sit around gissiping with one another.
Ah well, I guess I was a tourist when I was in Bs As, so it doesn’t matter. Anyway I like the cup and even though it is flashy who cares, I don’t actually drink tea, coffee or anything like that, so all it will be used for is to look at. So I think that it is good that it does look visually apealing. Anyway, no other real point to this post. I like to ramble. Go figure.
Señor Internacional
And so my journey begins in this blog game. I am Señor Internacional. Why do I call myself Señor Internacional? because I feel that I belong to nowhere and everywhere at the same time. I feel that I can travel anywhere and make it my home if the place appeals to me.
So this blong will tell about my thoughs on many things in life, things I like, things I hate and dislike (there will be a lot of theses), and things that I think/wish were done different. I don’t water down anything I say just to make people feel comfortable. Because at the end of the day, what is real is real, and no fancy words or bullshitting is going to change that.
Señor Internacional