Enjoying a cold celebratory Swedish cider while listening to Scanner.

Serenity…

Apple’s recent products, especially their mobile iOS devices, are like beautiful crystal prisons, with a wide range of restrictions imposed by the OS, the hardware, and Apple’s contracts with carriers as well as contracts with developers. Only users who can hack or “jailbreak” their devices can escape these limitations.

– EFF

If it provides me with the tools I not only want, but also needs, I’ll take a crystal prison any day – hoping it also serves Cristal.

I switched back to OS X and iOS for three reasons; syncing across different devices works flawlessly, most software are available across different devices, and I have less issues with OS X and iOS than Linux.

It is almost a decade since I used Windows, so I can’t really say anything about that, but what I’ve read about Android and been told by those who use it, Android isn’t that open as you would like to think.

To get full use of an Android device you need a Google account. No, not everyone has one – anymore. With Google making their “Don’t Be Evil” motto turning into a joke, I can’t really see how Android is any better.

It is correct that you need to get an AppStore account to get applications for your iOS device, but that’s it. iCloud is optional and you can easily sync your devices via iTunes – too easy to be off the Apple grid.

Even if EFF has a point with their write-up, I can’t help but find it a bit too biased. They do however save face by saying that Apple has the power to change this culture, which is kind of true, but I don’t think the issue is that easy to solve.

Imagine an app crashes on an iPhone. Who do you think the user blames for that? Apple or the developer of the app? From my own experience working in tech support, the customer will first blame the producer of the device. When you have then explained 3rd party apps or addons are not supported by the company, you will be asked why and demanded that it should be changed and the company fix a 3rd party problem.

I agree that what Apple is doing is extremely restrictive, but they are also minimising bad PR and angry customers blaming them for what a 3rd party developer did wrong.

Apple has the power to push openness more, but if that is done, the customer must also be ready to take responsibility for their tinkering. Not blaming Apple if something goes down the shitter if they tinker – which I see often when a jailbreak shits itself.

If customers wants to tinker, let them, but then the customers need to accept the fact that they should only give themselves a hard time if the brick their device.

Ever heard a car company get blamed for a car accident which was caused solely by the driver?

It’s late and I should probably call it a night.

Finishing a draft tomorrow; the essay is due on Friday. Can’t wait to be done with it! Must also finish my resume and letter to a possible future job.

Not sure how high my chances are, but if I get it, I’ll be ecstatic! If I don’t get it, I’ll most likely be in a very foul mood for a few days.

Oh yeah, I also have to finish that review. Always a treat with several deadlines. But I’ll be right, as usual.

We have about 800g of coffee in the house, so I see no reason why I shouldn’t be able to get on top of all those things tomorrow.

Unless I overload my system with caffeine…

Never.

Also trying to write a draft of a letter-of-interest for a job. It’s interesting to study journalism, but I feel that end of the day it becomes a lot of talk with little or no action.

As I have pointed out before and even experienced myself; journalism is best learned when doing it.

Enjoy…

That day arrived today. Not really, but I have been thinking about it for a while. To physically feel the buttons helps accuracy and speed a lot. So I ended up with a bluetooth keyboard, which I’m using now if I may add.

The beauty isn’t only speed and accuracy, but to actually be able to use the whole screen on the iPad. I didn’t think it would matter that much, but to be honest, it does.

This is how I felt today. Not like Mark Twain, but probably how his father felt, “bloody know-it-all kid”.

I really hope I weren’t that cocksure and ignorant at the same time when I was a teen.

Bloody hell that made me feel old … but I digress.

I’ll just pretend their ignorance will be in my favour.

This pretty much sums up my approach to journalism, writing and life – and how I’ve especially approach it online via this blog and Twitter.

As some of you might’ve figured out, my real name isn’t Dokter Waldijk. It’s only a nom de plume I’ve adopted. Not to fully hide my true identity– as you might find my real name if you dig deep enough, tho I still avoid facial photos –but for the originality of it.

More importantly, it was to repackage myself as a product– as we all are now –the product being a journalist inspired by Gonzo Journalism.

Three years ago I would probably not openly admit my [legal] usage of cannabis and that I rather become ‘intoxicated’ from that instead of alcohol. Nor would I go out and risk being arrested for covering a peaceful protest in a western democratic country.

But now I do.

Why?

Because I’m sick of pretending to be perfect, acting accordingly to how society expects me to act. I’m tired of being this dull yes-man.

Just open any newspaper, left leaning or right leaning, doesn’t matter, they will both warn you about the rise in crime, dangerous drugs and that we must be suspicious of one another – watch out for anti-social behaviour they say; also watch out for unattended bags.

While it’s okay to send death threats to scientists, but criticising religion is not okay.

No one cares about rules anymore, so why should I?

Fuck it!

It’s a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.
– Hunter S. Thompson

Will also send it off for proof reading, in an attempt to have it published.

Might just hangout on Twitter during breaks from writing.

This has been a long and tiring week.

Time for some rest…