A View from Behind the Curtain: December 2009

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Moved to Apple

Well we've taken the plunge and moved away from Microsoft... This is my first post on our new I-Mac. It will take some getting used to, but I've already managed to cause a program to fail and learned Apple does have a cntrl-alt-delete equivalent.

I have this tiny keyboard and no number pad but I've got to admit it is a beautiful piece of hardware and Apple knows how to make things pretty straight forward.

The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"  Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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