Doing It Slightly Too Well
What would have otherwise been a boring day at work in my office was actually a quite busy (but still boring) day in my office. You see, Microsoft has this technology called BitLocker that is supposed to keep evil haxzorz from breaking into your computer and stealing all your infos. As it turns out, trying to do an OS upgrade on said laptop apparently makes you a hacker. I spent seven hours trying to make my laptop work again, and while I was ultimately successful (resorting to the tried and true reformat approach), I disabled the part of my computer that allows BitLocker to work, not realizing that’s basically what everyone else does so that they don’t have to put up with it.
Apple announced their tablet today, the iPad, but (thankfully?) I’m not impressed at all. I’m not the only one, and Twitter has even taken to calling it the “iTampon”. It is essentially just a 10” iPhone/iTouch that (optionally) has 3G access (for $15/30/month) but no voice calling, no camera, no multitasking, and basically nothing else that would make me want one over a netbook/slate. In fact, halfway through the event, I was thinking to myself that compared to an iPad, Chrome OS was looking quite decent, and I’d happily take a device with that instead. I guess it really is all about perspective.