Happy 21st Birthday Jeremy!
As another birthday rolls by, I ponder to myself where my career path will take me in the next 10 years. It's hard to believe it's already 2010!
Feels like yesterday that I had the idea for this whole monstrosity! In all honesty I don't think I have really grown all that much in the last 10 years, I'm quite content with that, though. I love just being myself. What can I say?
For my birthday I didn't really do to much. I was pretty busy with developing the whole layout and design of the new wordpress theme I'm developing called "Higney". I do feel like I'm 21, though, after a friend of mine put the idea in my head that 9 years from now i'll be 30. Ughh..
As the new year brings on new beginnings, there has been a lot of personal, as well as professional, changes in my life come the past year, but I'll be getting into that with another blog post.
I have a lot to get off my chest, as well as a lot of explaining to do, as well, with what the future plans of the theJKH are. Getting back to topic what do you usually do for your birthday? Anything exciting or fun? Let me know.
In most cases, my birthdays aren't all that boring. Usually, I'll go out with friends and family and make a day out of it. I Just thought I would stay in this year and have a relaxing night occupied by some wine and the internet.
Oh, how I have grown! I would like to give a special thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. Believe me, it is most appreciated! Thanks again!
Making the switch
Yes ... I have made the switch. To what, you ask? Well before I answer that question, I should tell you what led me up to this "switch". I've been running Windows since 1999. Windows 98 being my first in depth look into the windows environment and for the most part I really enjoyed it.
Why? Because, of the software at the time. There was really a lot of interesting software being put out by third party developers. Of course eventually I upgraded to Windows Xp the GUI was such a beautiful upgrade compared to Windows 95,98 and yes the dreadful Millennium edition. At this time I was seeing less and less interesting software and the security was horrible. I believe this was the biggest downfall of Windows Xp, causing an "explosion" of third party software developers to make less and less interesting software and begin to cash out on security applications for Windows Xp.
And, of course the epic fail that will go down possibly as the worst operating system in history at least in my opinion ... Windows Vista. Now if you enjoy Windows Vista, that's fine I'm happy for you, everyone is entitled to there own opinion and thoughts.
Windows Vista just never did it for me. I was never blown away when it was in beta and I'm still not to this day believe me I could go on and on and rant about it, but, I wont I'll just point out some key points for me that made me take the switch. First off and the most epic fail of it all is driver support I have had horrible, horrible driver support and still to this day even after SP1 there are still issues and bugs that have not been worked out that shouldn't of left the beta and ship out to every software distributor in the world. *sigh*.
Another issue I have with windows all together, is that there is not really any interesting software anymore available for windows putting PC games, aside I haven't seen any "Wow" in a long time, and it seems like many power users and even users in general are trying to make there windows environment look like Apple's Mac OSX Leopard .... That tells you something, doesn't it?
Well after headache after headache Windows Vista Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Ultimate *argh*, I've made one choice, just one choice and a simple one. If you guessed Windows 7 Beta ... I'm sorry but your wrong although in my opinion 7 will be like a cold glass of water in hell, believe me I have beta tested it for 3 months now and what I've seen is what vista should of been on its release.
The choice is none other then a Mac Pro running Mac OSX Leopard. Yes I have switched to a Mac, No I'm not in love with Steve Jobs for future reference. So, why did I switch well first off Switching to the Intel platform that was a major step forward for me to move towards OSX Leopard for my Primary OS second the GUI is obviously sleek elegant and beautiful compared to previous versions third, I'm seeing more and more interesting software being released for OSX then I am Windows, like I said before all I have been seeing in general, are security software applications.. how exciting is that, really?
And the last reason for me switching and as said by many others who made the switch "It just works" and I think I'll end it with that, If you dont want to make the choice that's perfectly fine but at least take a look at one, head to your local apple store or apple distributor and try one of there products you may have a different feeling walking out as you did walking in.
