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The above was recently posted on Dear Toronto, this morning in fact. It’s just some footage of some Kids on TV having fun with some Men. good times at Pride Toronto, and more videos showing the fun over the next week.

On another note I’ve witnessed a large number of my relatively small twitter friends publicly decrying their Apple hardware recently. A large number of Macbook Pro systems, in particular, seem to be EPIC FAILING on them. These people chose to go with Macs not only because they look pretty, but because of their reported reliability. These people are power users, not your grandmother.

I haven’t been a regular Mac user since OSX first came out, a period that many would call the Mac’s rebirth. I’ve been a steadfast PC user largely because I like being in control. Not being a Mac power-user I can only go on what I’ve read and heard others say about the platform, but I’ve never been a fan of anything that just works and doesn’t need your input on how it works.

I need to know how something works because when it breaks, I like to tinker around to try and fix it. I like to customize registry settings. I like to use a non-glossy interface that lets me do my work (and surprisingly enough, the operating system itself isn’t what I use to produce, it’s what merely enables the production software to be used).

I hope my friends get speedy fixes for the Mac gear, whether it be non-recoverable hard drives that won’t spin, iPods that won’t sync, or blue tooth devices that won’t latch. In the meantime, if going the PC route I heartily recommend Gateway, specifically for their customer support. Over the phone they allowed me to open up the computer, flip jumper switchess and do hard resets to the computer’s bios by removing the motherboard battery without voiding any warranties. The computer ended up being a lemon, and they exchanged it for a new one within two weeks, but still, it was the first time a level-1 tech didn’t tell me to turn the computer off and back on just in case.

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