Dobleve

We arrived home a week ago from a week in Mexico and a few days in Madrid.  We went to Tulum, Mexico for the wedding of our friends John & Emily, it was a beautiful beach ceremony; we’d go back to Tulum again!

We returned home and as seems normal these days all of our computers wanted to install the latest updates that had been released during the 2 weeks we were gone.  I do most of my personal work (including writing this stuff) on a Mac mini, the majority of our computers run some form on Windows.  

The Windows updates went fine of course (disclaimer: I work for Microsoft and help write Windows), but sadly the Mac was rendered unbootable by the “update” to OS X 10.4.11.  It looks like I wasn’t alone – http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/27/0040206 talks a bit about it but focuses on bootcamp, sadly that’s a red herring as I don’t have bootcamp.  But, as Apple reminds me with smug taglines like “Think Different,” using and owning a Mac put me in an elite club of people who are in the know.  So I thought different and it helped; while I wasted the better part of a day copying, imaging, installing and trying to save all my data and make the Mac boot again I realized a lot of people were having a much different day, probably even having a fun.  But they don’t own a Mac.