The Mitch Switch

1. I think it's good to use different platforms. Gives you perspective.

2. Lots and lots of fun, interesting new software on the Mac.

3. I'm tired of Windows.

4. Hoping some of the elegance of the Mac and the iApps rubs off on this old software designer when he works on chandler.

I've had people ask me, why buy Macintoshes and use MacOS X when the cost of switching is so high? The hardware alone is so incredibly expensive, how can you justify it? I can justify it really simply:

1. Stuff works.

2. No more OS reboots once, twice, six times a day.

3. Far less worries about viruses or security holes.

4. MacOS X is Unix.

5. I find it easier to derive joy out of working in a MacOS X work environment 8 hours a day than I did working in a Windows environment 8 hours a day.

6. It's more fun. Way, way more fun. Oh sorry, I guess that's a repeat of 5.

7. I didn't trust Windows for my book project.

The Waco Kid

There, you've got your Alaska for Dean, Alabama for Dean, Arizona for Dean . . . South Florida Seniors for Dean . . . Drake Bulldogs for Dean . . . lots and lots and lots of different regional communities for Dean. Texas for Dean, San Antonio for Dean, West Texas for Dean . . . great.

A big long list, but there's one site whose name stands out from the rest: Dean for Waco. Not Waco for Dean (that domain is actually still available), but Dean for Waco. Was the choice of name some brilliant scheme to intentionally stand out from the rest, or is it an unintentional Homer Simpson-style goof (at which point, when the webmaster reads this, he goes "D'oh!")? Don't know. I've contacted the site's webmaster to find out.

Update: And the reply from the webmaster is, and I quote: "Feel free to register and build out the other name. I chose it that was cause it plays with dean for America."