September 24th, 2007
As I always mention, I’m very happy with my MacBook. Also, I know of at least 2 people in my office other than me (and I only hear from about 30 people or so) that have recently puchased Macs. So I predict that the market share for Mac is going to start going up and up and everyone realizes how cool it is and how they really don’t need to run Microsoft Word (and that they actually could if they really wanted to. Infact, Excel for Mac seems even better for Excel for Windows according to my husband.)
So now is the time to become a Mac Programmer! Everything seems to be prettier on the Mac, actually. Even websites that look kind of crummy by themselves look nicer on the Mac since each window has a drop shadow, and it makes the website look a little 3d. Apparently, the reason everything looks nice and consistent is the Cocoa toolkit. I did a tutorial with xcode when I installed xcode in order to get gcc. It was fun, and I created a Hello World window in Cocoa, but I didn’t really understand what was going on, especially since I had never even seen Objective C before.
Anyways, I recently came across this article from someone who made the switch, and it seems like a pretty interesting thing to try out! Maybe in all my spare time 
September 9th, 2007
mel·in·thro·py /mel’ ən throh pee/
–noun.
Melinda’s cool new blog.
Yes, that’s right, it doesn’t even get any hits on Google! That means no one ever thought of it before! John said there was a reason no one ever thought of it before… Clearly he means because I am an innovator. Honestly, people should hire me to come up with names for their companies.
So I always thought that my having a blog would be kind of a dumb idea, because who would read it? And also I’m not really into journaling about stuff I’m doing. But I was inspired by The Mendicant Bug that you can just post cool stuff that you find interesting. Because right now I resort to emailing it to people, and I think it causes them to start deleting my emails by rote. You know who you are ::cough:: Josh ::cough::. Or at least I imagine people are deleting my emails because I’m paranoid like that.
Also, I thought this would be a cool way to familiarize myself a little with the latest web technologies that all the cool kidz are doing these days. This blog is proudly powered by WordPress and hosted on the Weathers and Humphries SliceHost Slice. I thought I would start out easy and pick a pre-made WordPress theme, but I looked at (literally) about a hundred of them before deciding to go with the default theme and just mess with the colors a little. So I’ll probably play with it some more at some point. But for now I guess it will do.
And the underlying reason for wanting a blog — it gives me more of an excuse to play with my new MacBook I heart my MacBook.
So, Hello World, and I hope you enjoy Melinthropy! (And if you don’t, I don’t care. Ha. Okay, yes I do. Just don’t tell me.)
