Lazycoder

Love the one you’re with

Rant time!

Some people hate using Microsoft Windows. Some people just hate Microsoft. I can accept that Microsoft makes some wonky design decisions and that some of their server and desktop products are harder to use than they should be. But they also get a lot right. If you can fall into a Microsoft Taoist state and just go with the flow of their domain administration, you can spend a lot of time not doing much of anything.

But if you hate Microsoft, don’t use their products. Don’t say you hate Microsoft, and then use their products poorly, then blame Microsoft. Don’t install Netscape or FireFox and then think you are sticking it to Bill Gates and his crappy browser. Don’t think that by forcing me to use one third party calendaring application and a separate email application that you are making my life easier. Don’t think that because your particular methodology of the month doesn’t fit exactly into the ASP.NET web page lifecycle that you need to hack and hack until it looks somewhat like Ruby on Rails, but without all the nice dynamic typing and metaprogramming that makes RoR easy to use. Just use Ruby on Rails. Just use Zimbra or Zoho or Google Apps or Open Office. Just use OS X or Linux. Just don’t pose.