OK, I shouldn’t have said ANYTHING. They want their loaner laptop back. I knew it wasn’t good to gloat, but Jen and I got some really good use out of that machine, and it came at exactly the right time. Now Jen has a new machine, which I’ll be hooking up this weekend, and she’s not dependent on that laptop. It will be sad to see it go, though. Supa hardcore gangsta props to Andy, for being so damn cool to trust me with a $3,000 laptop for 6 months after I left the company.

They’re selling off a bunch of old machines. They’re getting rid of original generation iBooks, which I wouldn’t touch (or be caught dead with) with a wet salami; gateway Solo laptops, which were bricks when I used them, and Toshiba laptops, which were a measure or two cooler.

Depending how much they want for some of the PC hardware, I might go after a cheapo laptop and set it up at work to check pages and run HomeSite. I asked about old workstations and other Mac hardware- we’ll see how much they want for some of that stuff. By my calculations, 200 employees X 1 year = about 150 laptops; it’s all at least a year old now, and been sitting for 6 months.

At first I was really captivated by the blog crowd, and their obsessive writing and detailing of information on their sites. Now I’m looking at a lot of different sites and seeing just how navel-gazing some of them are. Some are designed very well, some are funny, and some are truly inspiring, from the content to the material reviewed, to the ideas behind the design. I wonder how different my stuff is; it’s very self-serving; it’s interesting to nobody, really; the stuff I write about is basically just a brain dump of what I’m thinking about that day, and contains no profound message, grand conclusion, or sweeping thesis. Maybe I should do like they do in corporations and have a big important ‘Mission Statement’ that outlines some grand design for the future.