Verbosity 2.0 ~ Talking about life on Drupal

The newsletter is a lost art. Long before the rise of blogging and networking sites the newsletter was one of the only ways to organize socially on the internet. The ease of use compared to any "web 2.0" technology is unparalleled. "Here's the email address, it goes to everybody." Do you really need to say more than that?

It's been a long time coming. With all the changes happening at Apple these days it is becoming hard to imagine how bad it really was for the company back in the 1990s. So much has changed since then, OS X has indeed brought the fortunes that Steve Jobs predicted.

Welcome to Verbosity, this site is both a technology review page and a system administrator's soapbox. I work with three operating systems every day analyzing technologies and making things work. In my spare time I lament about these platforms of imagination. At home I'm a Linux guy, on the road a Mac and in the office a Windows user. I have used many desktops in my short lifetime. The simple ones are those I enjoy best.

In the late 1990s Microsoft stepped in to help Apple out when the stock price fell through the floor. The effort was enough to let Apple continue operating while they radically changed their direction to embrace Unix as the core of the Macintosh operating system. In return Microsoft provided a really terrible version of Internet Explorer to help people along on the web with their old OS 9 machines.