A little background: I live in the Cre8asite network so I spend a lot of time watching the mods behind the scenes. They’ve got the best dirt, see. I’ve learned all kinds of stuff back there, that my mom never told me about. (Ask James about plums.)

And it turns out that Ammon Johns’s blog posting on the Cre8asite blog is his first blog post. Ever. Not just here– ever.
I think that’s pretty notable, given how long he’s been making noise online. (I’ll get back to him at the end of this post. Heh heh.)

Other than that, I’m mildly bored. My computer has recovered from Pinky’s helpfulness, but I kind of miss the novelty of all that spyware– you just never knew what was going to POP up next.
Barry W., who’s usually good for a laugh, is off at some convention. He’s blogging it, here, but I have to admit it’s all a bit over my head. Grumpus is all hopped up on “feeds”– I don’t even understand what that’s about. It sounds sort of exciting and somehow illicit, but from what I’ve gleaned, it’s not. (Grumpus is entertaining when he gets excited about things, though. It would keep me on my toes, if I had any.) So, as announced here, there’s a new Blogs, RSS, and Syndication forum at Cre8asiteForums.

But there’s not much in that to keep a ball with eyes happy. So I rolled over to Pinky’s computer while she was at her night job (she’s the bouncing ball in those singalong videos) with an eye to causing mischief, in revenge for all the toolbars she put on mine.

Well, she’s got a Mac. One of those shiny ones. And… well, it didn’t take me long to figure out how to use it, and to get totally addicted to the f9 key (you press it, and you can see all your windows as thumbnails– so darn handy!). But pretty much none of the toolbars will run on a Mac. (There’s a Googlebar that runs on Mozilla on any platform, but it has no PR bar…)
Worse, no spyware runs on a Mac, and I don’t think there’s even one virus that runs on a Mac. It’s not like there are no vulnerabilities in the operating system. It’s just that nobody’s bothered to exploit them.

I would have been more disappointed if I hadn’t had so much fun using the darn thing.
I particularly enjoyed playing with iTunes, the music-playing program that comes with the operating system. You can sort your music by album, by date added to your library, by artist, by song name, by the album date (according to the id3 tags), by the number of times you’ve listened to it (yes, it keeps stats), by the last time you listened to it, etc. And you can make dynamically-generated playlists focused on any of these things. So I made Pinky a number of strange dynamically-generated playlists and went on my way.

But it did get me thinking about music, so I read the current music thread running over in the forums: Yesterday’s Music Is Better. As these things tend to be, it ended up not being about music so much as about people’s experience of music. My favorite part was when people started posting photos of themselves in the 80’s… I didn’t live through the 80’s, so I can’t offer much on my own account, but Black(Leather)Knight was pretty priceless. Mmmm… Pointy boots.