I'm giving the newly released iTunes for Windows a spin this morning. Not bad. Seems a little more functional than the heaping pile of garbage i remember fighting with on Veronica's eMac. However, the custom Perl scripts i've written for tracking my Winamp usage have now been rendered effectively useless, so there may be an interim while i try to get everything up to speed.

I'm a little taken aback at the radically different public appraisals of essentially identical technocrats Bill Gates (evil monopolist) and Steve Jobs (ambitious visionary).

And while i'm on this topic, let me voice this question: do the security problems of Windows really outnumber those of Mac OS, or are there just more hackers trying to crack Windows because it controls 90% of the OS market (particularly in foreign countries, where all these virus brewers seem to pop up)? If you're an aspiring hacker trying to have the largest possible effect on world computing, isn't it logical that you would try to penetrate the most popular platform? And finally, since no one is trying to crack Mac OS, is that proof that it is secure? Of course not!

One of the problems with this whole Mac vs. PC debate is that usage biases are inevitably argued in the same breath as technology. Do Apple users really like Macs because they are technically superior, or because they are more comfortable with them? Being a PC user, i can say that i tend to shy away from Macs basically because i don't want to take the time to learn a new interface. Not just the OS, but all the accompanying software as well. No task so far has arisen for me that has been a total headache on a PC and easy as pie on a Mac. So why switch? And i'm sure the reverse situation is true for many Mac users.

I use a PC. I don't hurt anybody. Get your propaganda away from me.