Monday, October 6, 2008

My mac can fix anything

So as many of you may now know, I am recent convert from the Windows world to the mac world and so far so good. I have loaded it up with quite a bit of software and as well with parallels so I can run Vista inside OS X, and this seems to be working for me quite well. At this point I am having less of an excuse to even boot up my other computers since the mac seems to out-perform my other equipment (even though my other equipment is equal to it in power, and in some cases, like ram, is more equipt than the mac.)

Even with all of these wonderful suprises, recently I came across a feature on the mac that completely floored me! I was checking my email and fiddling with the settings of the email list view to see what other sorting columns I could display and lo-and-behold there was the command to end all other commands. The Barack Obama of commands!

"Restore Natural Order"!

Never once under my Windows email solution did it offer to fix the state of the universe. I really need to get a hold of Congress and tell them that my mac can fix this whole economy thing. In a single click I can boost the paychecks of teachers, bring peace to the Middle East, put parents back in charge of their homes, reduce the influence of Hollywood on society and ensure that politicians be held to their word (or at least to the earliest version of their word.)

I am affraid to press the the command, because with great power comes great responsibility, and I am not sure that all of that change all at once would actually be well-received or even comfortable. But sometimes you have to do your duty and click that thing to make things right again. I've made up my mind. I am going to go ahead and press. Here we go!?

...ah....

I don't think anything changed. A few things got moved around a little bit, but my email is still in disarray, not to mention the economy and the Middle East. Actually, it "fixed" a bunch of stuff that wasn't really broken. Man! What a mess. I guess it ends up that this, like Obama, isn't the answer to these problems. Oh well. Ends up I will have to personally get involved if I want to straighten out the economy, the Middle East, or my email. What a disappointment. I thought for sure, if I just selected this option, stuff would be better. Hmmm?

Maybe I am wrong. Add a comment and tell me if your world got a whole lot better when I clicked the command?

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