I'll Wait, Thanks

An email from Apple: “We have recently completed the transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we had hoped."
"Although core services such as Mail, iDisk, Sync, Back to My Mac, and Gallery went relatively smoothly, the new MobileMe web applications had lots of problems initially. Fortunately we have worked through those problems and the web apps are now up and running.”
I’ve looked at that cloud from both sides now."

The email from Apple says that the new apps are up and running. Their website says MobileMe is just the greatest and “you first need to configure any computer, iPhone, or iPod touch you use.” Then it tried to seduce me to take the next step “For easy-to-follow instructions.”Did I hear someone just say “Really?”

I was tempted to link to the upgrade, but that little voice stopped me. Wait a little while, see what happens when everyone that got the email tries to upgrade at the same time. It will all be waiting for you tomorrow.I know, seems like old age is taking it’s toll on my optimism. And I don’t have a high opinion of pessimism, but . . .That’s what the discussion boards are for, I’ll let a few strangers jump off the cliff first and see how they land.
Comments will hopefully be up and running on iWeb before long, or they won’t. Wait and see. Until then we'll always have blogger

- - - David

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Hear, speak, see no evil at Toshogu, Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan,
from Wikimedia Commons

This is to inform you that it is another worm in the APPLE, not your moderator, that has disabled the comments on our iWeb blog.

Some say it’s that new iPhone 3G. Others opine that it’s the millions of existing iPhone geeks trying to rev up their toys all at the same time and the same day, unable to wait for the inevitable bugs to surface, (Brian?), that caused the system crash. Or could it be the launch of the new application that Apple tried to introduce at the very same moment they started selling the new iPhone AND offering the endless upgrades?

If you’ve actually tried to post a comment, I know someone just must have, you probably received a strange advert for MobileMe, Apple’s new application that will allow us Mac users to do some fabulous new tricks, I’m sure, once they find out where it went and figure out how to make it work.

I have a feeling MobileMe is a little shy and it’s hiding out on my website. In any case I think I’ll be waiting awhile before I try and update anything on my computer this time. I still remember not being able to blog for six weeks last time they “improved” my system.

Since last time I checked, Apple still wasn’t commenting, I will sit back, study and let the moment wash over me. What can I learn from this latest Monkey Wrench? Is the cosmos trying to teach me a lesson? Is it wise to try and do everything at once? What exactly does the expression “Pace yourself” refer to? Are the best laid plans not always the best laid plans? Should we even bother to make a plan. Or does this remind me of what I learned while trying to put together an IKEA kitchen, to make sure step one is done before moving on to step two, AND three.

It is the sure footed tortoise that won the race, not the fleet footed hare. And I am a firm follower of our Lady of de Lay.


In the meanwhile, this blogger site, where I copy and paste all our blog entries for those computers that prefer not to crash and burn when Apple has these little glitches, is still allowing comments, for now.

So hear, speak and say all the evil you want, here.

I’ll be waiting.

- - - David