Bad Apple

Following a week of jet-settery that had me in LA for fingerprinting, Vancouver for flower delivery, Calgary for lunch, Montreal for my regular 6-7 gig and Quebec City for vacation, I was ready to regale you with tales of far flung lands from forgotten corners of the map. And it was right about the time I sat down to paint some pictures with words (I know that posting actual pictures would probably be easier but 1) writing’s more fun, and 2) I made a solemn vow that no vacation photos would end up on the internets) when, at approximately 8:37AM, my computer became sentient. Luckily, since we’re only talking about my MacBook and not the defense department supercomputers of WAR GAMES and TERMINATOR fame*, the computer’s range of destructive abilities was limited to turning itself off every ten or so seconds. In other words, while the world was spared the total meltdown promised by the movies, I was not.

So there it was – the cold, hard fact that my 3-month old computer was a bad Apple. Making an appointment at the Apple Store’s Genius Bar (which, by the way, would make an awesome name for a real bar. Bartenders would wear white lab coats and serve bubbling drinks to patrons delivering pickup lines about there being “chemistry in the air”…and shots would come in test tubes! Seriously. Someone should get on this. I would totally go), I made the trek to Laval to discover I had a bad battery. While the geniuses rectified that in about two seconds, they were at a loss to explain why upgrading to iWeb ’08 has turned my carefully formatted homepage into the virtual equivalent of a Jackson Pollock.

And there you have it – the real reason for my post: iWeb ’08 sucks. While I’m sure it has all sorts of neato features aside from randomly bolding text (I swear I’m not screaming at you via the internet), arbitrarily deciding which pictures it will make visible, breaking my widget (less painful and suggestive than it sounds) and shifting text all over the place, it has yet to amaze. So please think of this post as a “pardon our dust until Apple gets its act together” sign – while my good friends in Cupertino always manage to pull through, this could get rough.

Unlike my week of travel, which was totally awesome.

*Has anyone else noticed that I reference these movies all the time?