Kevin's Weblog

Look Apple, it really doesn’t make me feel any better when my computer crashes that I get a really pretty translucent screen of death, instead of an ugly blue one. In fact, it pisses me off that someone spent time making that happen instead of fixing the fucking problem that caused the computer to crash in the first place.

While I’m on this rant, I’d like to point out a big problem in the whole “The Web is the Internet is the Computer” thing, which is that my local desktop apps are pretty good about periodically saving my work without me having to do anything. However, when I’ve spent the last hour typing into a little box on a web page (which is a crappy way to do text editting to begin with) and then the network goes down or someone trips over a power cord or one computer or another crashes, I lose all my work.

As if to prove my point, the computer just crashed again before I could upload this to the server. However, I didn’t have to retype a thing.

Update: After 5 crashes yesterday, I gave up for the day. This morning on a hunch I uninstalled Sailing Clicker and so far today I haven’t had any problems. I’m somewhat disappointed as I think it’s a neat piece of software and I was looking forward to playing with more of its features, but at this point I haven’t even given a presentation since I installed it and clearly I can’t afford this level of instability.