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Multiple Bifurcations is a term that I first heard from Andy Grove when he explained the future of Intel product positioning.
In my case, however, it's just a good term for how I'm slowly losing my mind. Instead of being interested in "Unix", now one has to consider Solaris, Mac OS, Linux, BSD etc. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, such that I can't just standardise on one. I love my old SPARC machines, for example, and Solaris is best on those. I use my various Macs for music, video, email and web browsing. Gotta have those. But for my webserver, my home-brew Slackware Linux machine is still plugging away after several years reliable duty.
Similarly, for blogging, I started off using Blosxom on Linux. It's really simple and I can work disconnected too. On my webserver I can post from a simple ssh session, or I can work on my mac and then upload afterwards.
However, for blogs with themes, photos, counters etc, I have been
experimenting with "iWeb". It's just about ok for a first 1.0 release
of a product, but has some shocking limitations. For example if you
have a slideshow, every photo is shown with a sort of reflective
foreground, like it was standing on a black shiny surface. There is no
way to turn this off. Personally I hate it. HATE IT. Also there is no
way to participate in the quality of photos, I can't ask for bigger
images, or smaller thumbnails, or more sharpening. I think that Flickr
is most likely better. Finally, a friend of mine has Aperture and a
quad Powermac with 4.5GB and produces some fairly nice slideshows
using that setup.
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